Connecticut Governor Says Its Time to Legalize Marijuana

Connecticut Governor Says Its Time to Legalize IT

Last week, Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy said, “Let’s accept reality”. The Governor wants to do what the good Governator just did for Californians, that is change possession of anything less than an ounce of weed to an infraction, instead of a crime.... or decriminalization. The Governor believes that the existing laws are somewhat racist, with major flaws in enforcing the immoral laws.

The public hearing on Legalizing Marijuana in Connecticut will be held tomorrow (Monday, March 14, 2011). Good luck to our friends in Connecticut.

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Massachusetts to Legalize Marijuana in 2012

Voters in Massachusetts appear to be ready to legalize marijuana in 2012, according to an analysis of the votes on local cannabis legalization advisory ballot questions last Tuesday.

Massachusetts allows for citizens to place non-binding local “public policy questions” on the ballot. And voters in several precincts weighed in this year on whether their local representatives should “vote in favor of legislation that would allow the state to regulate and tax the marijuana in the same manner as alcohol.”

More than 150,000 votes were cast on the marijuana issue across Massachusetts, in districts containing about 8.5 percent of the total vote. In the districts where pot policy was on the ballot, the advisory question passed with an overwhelming 61 percent of the vote, but these districts were slightly more liberal than the rest of the state, reports Jon Walker at Firedoglake. So to determine how those results might translate to a statewide marijuana legalization ballot question, Walker used two different metrics to analyze the data. The whole story from NEWS JUNKIE POST.

Stephen Colbert Prop 19 Video October 2010

Video Embedded Below | Stephen Colbert Prop 19 Video October 2010 | Colbert, Joseph Califano and Former Republican Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson discuss the legalization of marijuana in America.

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Utah will Legalize Medical Marijuana

Former Salt Lake City, Utah Mayor, Rocky Anderson has always been a free thinking politician. 10 years ago Rocky Anderson stopped just short of saying Marijuana should be legalized - at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, California. 

On Monday, Rocky Anderson told ABC 4 Utah, "To put people behind bars for possessing or smoking pot is absolutely absurd. It would make more sense to put people behind bars for smoking cigarettes." More Here.