This Nov. there are marijuana ballot measures in 10 states!

[dixiegrrrrl]

The 10 marijuana ballot measures are actually a mix of medical and recreational questions in eight states. But with medical marijuana already legal in 25 states, the impact of these elections on recreational marijuana is getting the most attention.

Arizona Marijuana Legalization, Proposition 205
Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act, Issue 7
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment, Issue 6
California Proposition 64, Marijuana Legalization
Florida Medical Marijuana Legalization, Amendment 2
Maine Marijuana Legalization, Question 1
Massachusetts Marijuana Legalization, Question 4
Montana Medical Marijuana Initiative, I-182
Nevada Marijuana Legalization, Question 2
North Dakota Medical Marijuana Legalization, Initiated Statutory Measure 5

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2016/10/marijuana-is-smokin-hot-on-ballots-food-safety-not-so-much/

Hope you can support the measure if one is in your state.

[csziggy]

1. Voted Yes for the marijuana amendment in Florida

Only for medicinal but that's a step towards sanity.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. at least you got a ballot with the question on it. It appears Broward county has some funny business

gee, I wonder why they would be sending out ballots that have Measure 2 left off of them? Gee, whoops, sorry, our bad

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-broward-marijuana-ballot-hearing-20161025-story.html

[csziggy]

3. What the HECK?!

From your link - "The elections office said that was caused by pages sticking together due to humidity."

That would likely mean that none of the amendments would be on the defective ballots, wouldn't it?

Here during early voting once you check in at the front desks they give you a ticket to take to a separate station where a ballot is printed just for you. Then you fill it out and put it into the optical scanner - no one handles your ballot once you fill it out.

I like this system. It's fast, efficient and you can go anywhere in the county to vote. Plus with the paper ballots if there are any problems with the count, the paper ones can be counted by hand.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. more coverage of the story. Broward co. officals also blamed it on "sample ballots"

sample ballots being "mistakenly" mailed out instead of real ones, and for some unfathomable reason the sample ballots just happened to be missing that ONE question and nothing else.

Oh, Florida. You have my condolences.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article110337557.html

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Hearing-Tuesday-in-Broward-for-Lawsuit-Over-Ballots-Missing-Medical-Marijuana-Amendment-398281241.html

[Motley13]

27. You can't expect FL to have an election w/o a glitch

I think the missing amend 2 was only in Broward Cty, which is where I live. When I voted this morning I asked the poll worker if it was on the paper ballot, she immediately pointed to it.

Last time it was on the ballot it got 57% - 58%, needs 60% to pass.







I just checked my sample ballot that I got a while back & it is on there.

[CBGLuthier]

4. Should have been 11. Oklahoma got screwed. Wrangling over the AG's interference

in the language led to it being approved but not in time for this election.

[Behind the Aegis]

19. YUP!

But at least we got to pray for oil!

[Mz Pip]

6. CA voter here.

We were the first state to pass a medical marijuana initiative 20 years ago. This year we're going for legalization like WA and CO.

I mailed my ballot last week and am pretty confident it will pass.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Issue seven was disqualified today by the court today.

Arkansas court disqualifies Issue 7 medical marijuana proposal

http://www.4029tv.com/article/arkansas-court-disqualifies-2nd-medical-marijuana-proposal/7663761

[WillyBrandt]

14. Is this actually good news in a weird way?

The article says there were two competing proposals on the ballot. Wouldn't this make it more likely that the remaining one passes?

[WillyBrandt]

15. Nevermind - I read it more carefully - this is not great news...

[skylucy]

8. I'm in California. Early voted for Hillary (of course), all the Dems and yes on 64.

Hope it passes this time. A few years ago, the recreational weed proposition failed. The polls look pretty good this time.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. I think CA will mirror what happened in OR- we had a loss in '10, a better inititaive passed in '14

The only noise I've heard in opposition to it is from growers afraid it will cut into their profit margins. But growers in legal states can tell them those fears are unfounded. The benefits to full legalization are widespread.

[marlakay]

25. I live in Humboldt county so lots of noise here

About it. Mainly afraid after the 5 yr ban on big farms and 2 yr ban on out of state that it will kill the little local guy.

This area is all about local sustainable.

I voted yes but know others who won't so I am not sure. One of my daughters friends with small kids is on fire in fb trying to get others not to vote for it.

[rollin74]

9. Voted yes on Question 2 in Nevada (recreational legalization)

all the polls I've seen show a narrow majority in favor

[PasadenaTrudy]

11. I voted yes in CA already nt

[GWC58]

12. Alas we had nothing like that in the good old

State of Maryland! 2020, maybe! 😌😠

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. I had forgotten that we DO have cannabois oil now!!!

Leni's law, after a little girl who had almost constant seizures, her folks moved her to Oregon and the oil stopped all but an occasional seizure.

Pretty shocked that Ala. actually did something intelligent.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Eventually the elected leaders will start to move on this.

Up until now, though, change has had to come almost entirely through direct ballot initiatives in states that have them.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. Except those of us stuck in hardcore Red states.

We will have to wait for it to come to a national issue (SC).

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Yeah, I hear you. And it's unfortunate.

But I think the biggest blow to prohibition, federally, will be if CA passes measure 64- and I think it probably will.

After that, though, we may be stuck with a state-by-state situation, for a while, since drug laws and the lack thereof have traditionally been a state issue; in fact it has only been through an extremely torturous and stretched definition of the commerce clause that the feds have even been able to claim any interest in controlling what individuals do with their own bodies vis a vis any substances they might ingest.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. cannabis is STILL a controlled substance on the Federal level.

But I think more and more people are "getting it" that Big Pharma is the main influence of anti-pot laws.

Not sure where Hillary stands, would hope she is pro.

Meanwhile, we have the situation where the Feds are arresting users and raiding licensed pot shops in some states.
You would think that the State's Rights crowd would be upset over this.

[qdouble]

21. Voted yes in Nevada

[True_Blue]

24. Voted yes in AZ.n/t

[WDIM]

26. I hope every one passes.

The more States that legalize it puts more pressure on the Feds to do the same.

[Initech]

28. Yes on 64! Yes on 64! Yes on 64! Yes on 64!