Hardrock69
11-10-2006, 10:33 AM
While the rise of the Democrats might be good news for American druggies, Election Day 2006 also brought some bad news.
Drug Policy Alliance tallies up the statewide defeats:
Statewide measures to legalize small amounts of marijuana failed in Colorado (40% to 60%) and Nevada (44% to 56%). South Dakota voters narrowly defeated a medical marijuana initiative (48% to 52%). The South Dakota defeat is especially disappointing because it marks the first time that medical marijuana has lost at the ballot box. (Voters have approved medical marijuana in eight other states).
But there was more luck on the local level:
In California, voters in Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Santa Monica approved local measures making marijuana possession the lowest law enforcement priority in their cities. Voters in Missoula, Montana and Eureka Springs, Arkansas approved similar measures.
Random trivia alert: Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a very liberal place, is known as "the hole in the buckle of the Bible Belt."
http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/marijuana2_1.jpg
http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2006/11/pothead_hopes_u.html
Drug Policy Alliance tallies up the statewide defeats:
Statewide measures to legalize small amounts of marijuana failed in Colorado (40% to 60%) and Nevada (44% to 56%). South Dakota voters narrowly defeated a medical marijuana initiative (48% to 52%). The South Dakota defeat is especially disappointing because it marks the first time that medical marijuana has lost at the ballot box. (Voters have approved medical marijuana in eight other states).
But there was more luck on the local level:
In California, voters in Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Santa Monica approved local measures making marijuana possession the lowest law enforcement priority in their cities. Voters in Missoula, Montana and Eureka Springs, Arkansas approved similar measures.
Random trivia alert: Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a very liberal place, is known as "the hole in the buckle of the Bible Belt."
http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/marijuana2_1.jpg
http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2006/11/pothead_hopes_u.html