Rhode Island & Maine set to announce marijuana legalization bills; Vermont & Mass too

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Rhode Island & Maine set to announce marijuana legalization bills; Vermont & Mass too

State lawmakers across New England are preparing legislation to legalize marijuana for recreational use, building on recent victories for the movement in Colorado and Washington last week.

The Marijuana Policy Project announced Wednesday that state legislators in Rhode Island and Maine, where medical marijuana has already been legalized, are set to announce bills in their respective states that would pave a path for broader legalization of the substance.

Reason reports that Rhode Island's Rep. Edith Ajello and Maine's Rep. Diane Russell will discuss their plans during a conference call with the MPP on Thursday. The MPP also reports that lawmakers in Vermont and Massachusetts intend to follow suit.

As a region, New England has been at the forefront of marijuana acceptance. Massachusetts voters passed a ballot measure legalizing medical marijuana last week, leaving New Hampshire as the last state in the region to remain in line with federal laws prohibiting the drug. New Hampshire's Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill attempting to change that earlier this year, but Democratic Gov. John Lynch vetoed the measure.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/14/new-england-marijuana-legalization_n_2130925.html
 
I find it interesting that marijuana legalization crosses party lines.... unlike pro life/abortion or most other topics
just like in Colorado more people voted to legalize it than for Pres Obama
 
The left should support drug reform because prohibition unfairly targets minorities/youth and harms the overall welfare of society, and the right should support reform because prohibition is expensive, requires expansive government powers and infringes on the individual's right to do whatever they want with their own body.
 
With all this good news, I can't help but recall this:
HST said:
There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.…
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
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May it not be so again.
 
I love how they talk about new Hampshire they make it sound like an outcast or behind with the times for not accepting cannabis medicinally yet. I am loving one thing about the united states for sure recently!;)
 
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