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With the end of 2010 approaching I’m updating many of the charts I use in my marijuana law reform presentations. I’ve taken the comparison chart I created before the election and updated it with the passage of Arizona’ law and failure of South Dakota’s initiative.
We now have five medical marijuana states – Arizona, Maine, Montana, Michigan, and Rhode Island – that will recognize medical cards from any state. Consider that when planning your next vacation, patients.
The last three places to pass medical marijuana do not allow patients to grow their own medicine at home. Arizona patients who live within 25 miles of a dispensary cannot grow cannabis and no patients in New Jersey and District of Columbia may grow their own medical marijuana, either.
Arizona’s medical marijuana initiative posted the narrowest win of any such initiative at 50.13%. Meanwhile, South Dakota’s second attempt at passing medical marijuana lost 12% at the polls, posting a 36% yes vote, down from a 48% yes vote just four years prior.
Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, we've almost got you surrounded!
With Arizona we now have fifteen states and DC that recognize medical use of cannabis to some degree. There is now a virtual “Western bloc”, other than Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, operating in defiance of federal law. These states total 89 million in population, 29% of the United States, with 158 votes in the Electoral College. There are medical marijuana bills in many states, including New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, plus initiatives in others, like Florida. If just those four states passed medical marijuana, half of the American population and 258 Electoral Votes would come from medical marijuana states.
Dispensaries, DUID, Decrim, Medical, Initiatives, Vote Results, Vetoes, Hemp, Reciprocity - all on one map (click for full size)
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[...] This was a very reasonable bill that was to set up a three-year pilot project. If the dire predictions of Illinois’ opponents of medical marijuana came true, the law would sunset in just three years. It only allowed possession of two ounces and growing of seven plants, which is well within the conservative limits set by all but four of the fifteen medical marijuana states. [...]
If more people that used marijuana would come out of the closet and not just speak out about support for more liberal laws on marijuana and then actually go out and VOTE, we could have major reform within the next 3 years! It is in sight, but all too often I hear, I don’t want my boss to know, I don’t know about speaking ‘on the record’ I work for the city/county/state/gov and don’t want to loose my position… Or ‘my vote doesn’t count anyways so why should I spend my time voting’… Just like many civil rights and other major movements, all it takes is to come out of the shadows speak up and then follow it up with a vote to make a difference, you vote does matter! It starts with the city council(wo)man that needs only 95 votes to get elected, then moves on to races like we had in the CA Attorney Gen race where medical marijuana activist actually DID make the difference showing the clear favorite (azhat Cooley) that we don’t want someone in that position to further restrict our access, we want it furthered and jerk offs like Cooley that tries to circumvent OUR LAWS will not be elected. This was a HUGE defeat and we need to capitalize on it.
I don’t understand why it is not already decriminalized we need some smarter people in the house if it got legalized jobs would open up for shop keeps and other good stuff would happen the US needs to get its head out of its own ass and legalize if that were to happen hundreds of jobs would become available like shopkeeps and other stuff