State Legislators in Rhode Island and Maine Are Announcing Marijuana Legalization Bills Tomorrow

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Source: Reason.com
http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/14/state-legislators-in-rhode-island-and-ma

State legislators in Rhode Island and Maine will announce bills tomorrow to legalize recreational marijuana, a spokesperson for the Marijuana Policy Project announced today.

Rhode Island Rep. Edith Ajello and Maine Rep. Diane Russell will hold a conference call tomorrow with the Marijuana Policy Project to announce the legislation.

MPP says that "similar proposals will be submitted in at least two other states — Vermont and Massachusetts." A ballot iniative legalizing medical marijuana passed in Massachusetts last week with more than 60 percent of the vote. Maine voters voted to expand the state's 1999 medical marijuana law in 2009 to include dispensaries. The Rhode Island legislature passed medical marijuana legislation earlier this year.

Correction: This post originally said that the bills would be introduced tomorrow. They will be announced tomorrow, and introduced when legislative sessions begin.

[MrSlayer]

1. Good.

Should be legal nationally.

[StrictlyRockers]

17. I bet my girlfriend twenty bucks that it will be legal in California in the next six years.

I think she's gonna owe me twenty bucks. Guess what I am going to be spending it on...

[JeffHead]

2. Sanity is spreading.

Colorado and Washington kicked the door open and many states will soon follow. Good for Maine and RI. Who's next?

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. NJ

Christie vetoed legislatively passed MMJ. He is on the wrong side of history.

[mike_c]

3. time to go home and...

[Panasonic]

4. When the balls starts rolling... it REALLY rolls.

Soon enough, the feds will have to remove cannabis from Schedule I listing.

[d_r]

5. heh you said rolling

[Panasonic]

8. Yeah.. time to roll a J :D

[tridim]

7. Pinching myself because it's really happening!

Who is going to be the last state to legalize?

Utah?

[BlueJazz]

10. I'd say Georgia or Florida.

[amywalk]

11. Florida.

[BlueJazz]

12. Probably so. We have a Republican senate and...welllll....Everybody...here.

[RainDog]

14. It would be total irony if Mississippi were the last to legalize

Since it's the only state in the U.S. that is legally authorized to grow marijuana - and has to, to provide for the 8 remaining patients in a program that required the U.S. to honor the rights of patients whose best medicine for their illnesses is marijuana.

[AlbertCat]

16. NC

because we are in the throes of a conservative freak out... going backwards faster than you can count.


If not... the last will be whatever state has the most private prisons.

[libdem4life]

9. Here comes that "slippery slope" you were warned about...do it for one and what do you get?

All the rest following suit. Imagine there are just a few Republicans grateful about the Democrat's win???

[RainDog]

13. k&r n/t

[Flatpicker]

15. Good

This issue needs to go away.

It's just a pointless waste of LE funds.

[AverageJoe90]

18. Still can't believe how long it's taken.

But even so, this is absolutely wonderful news.