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It’s our special election roundup here on the Stash.  We’ve got the experts here to give their take on state and local initiatives to be decided tomorrow:

• Dianne Byrum, Coalition for Compassionate Care, on Michigan’s Proposal 1 to legalize medical marijuana;
• Whitney Taylor, Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy, on Massachusetts Question 2 to decriminalize personal possession of marijuana;
• Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance, on California’s Proposition 5 to move non-violent drug offenders to treatment instead of jail and decriminalize personal possession of marijuana;
• Ryan Denham, Sensible Fayetteville, on Fayetteville, Arkansas municipal measure to make enforcement of personal marijuana possession crimes the lowest law enforcement priority.

VOTE!

I know some of you think it doesn’t matter, they’re all the same, it’s hopeless, I hate ‘em all, whatever, but a cannabis consumer who doesn’t vote is like a battered spouse who keeps forgiving the batterer.  Your voice matters!  If people didn’t think voting mattered, California would never have passed Prop 215 and all the positive gains of the past dozen years may not have happened.

We can do this.  There are literally millions of us.  We’ve got the public mostly on our side; now it’s the politicians who need education.  The winds of change are blowing and we may have the best political atmosphere for drug law reform yet – the perfect storm of progressive leadership, popular will, and fiscal need.  Vote as if your freedom depends on it… because it does.