72% favor Massachusetts decrim measure “Question #2″
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 2:47 pm | By: Radical Russ
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(Media-Newswire.com) – BOSTON – Of the three questions on the Massachusetts ballot this November, only one question — #2 the decriminalization of marijuana — appears all but certain to pass, according to a poll analysis released today by 7NEWS/Suffolk University. Seventy-two percent favored the proposed law, which would replace the criminal penalties for possession of up to one ounce of marijuana to a civil penalty of forfeiture of the marijuana and a fine of $100. Twenty-two percent opposed the proposed law.“The public may be signaling that pursuing small-time marijuana users is a waste of taxpayer resources,” said David Paleologos, director of the Political Research Center at Suffolk University. “This issue suggests that there is a Libertarian streak in the thinking of Massachusetts voters.”
Will this be the year of the thirteens? Massachusetts is poised to become the thirteenth state to decriminalize marijuana, and Michigan voters will have a chance to make it the thirteenth medical marijuana state. Thirteen states, bound together by hemp to fight for liberty. That sounds like the spirit of America to me.
It really feels like there is a wave of consciousness coming over America, a realization about the truth of cannabis hemp, waking up from a propaganda-induced coma, shaking off the reefer madness. It reminds me of the Theory of the Hundredth Monkey:
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