Archive for December, 2009
Pot Vote: Legalizing Marijuana Could Be On 2010 Ballot
Written by Green Bro on December 21, 2009 – 10:31 am -
A measure to legalize marijuana in California has enough signatures to qualify for the November 2010 ballot, advocates say.
The Tax and Regulate Initiative has far more than the nearly 434,000 signatures needed to make the statewide ballot, said Richard Lee, well-known Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur and the initiative’s main backer. Campaign organizers say they will submit more than 650,000 signatures of registered voters next month.
“People were eager to sign,” Lee told the Chronicle. “We heard they were ripping the petitions out of people’s hands to do it.
“We’ll keep our organizers on the street to keep the momentum going strong, but today we’re declaring an overwhelming victory.”
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