Voters Approve Arizona Medical Marijuana Measure

[Jim Finnel]

By a narrow margin, Arizona voters have given their OK to legalized medical marijuana for people with chronic or debilitating diseases.

The decision makes Arizona the 15th state to approve a medical marijuana law. California was the first in 1996, and 13 other states and Washington, D.C., have followed suit.

Proposition 203 won by just 4,341 votes out of more than 1.67 million ballots counted, according to final tallies Saturday.

Approval came as somewhat of a surprise after the measure started out losing on Election Day by about 7,200 votes. The gap gradually narrowed until it surged ahead during Friday's count by more than 4,000 votes. Saturday's final count was 841,346 in favor of the measure and 837,005 opposed.

"We really believe that we have an opportunity to set an example to the rest of the country on what a good medical marijuana program looks like," said Andrew Myers, campaign manager for the Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project.


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[medMUser]

YIPPPPEEE!!! That's my state! Finally we got it going. After a failure or 2 we got 'er done.

Now I'm gonna see if I can be a care giver.

Legal sure changes things. Kind of a weird in a good way feeling. Wow!

mM

 

[Liquid Metal]

Nice going Arizona, blaze up in glory...

 

[Odin]

Way to go AZ. They are really stepping up to face the important issues lately.

 

[GanjaAL2]

Now if only Cali would get the hint... MMJ is the only way you can swing a concervitive group. Now if we can all pull together and put elected officials in jail and hold them financially responsible for breaking state law... we then could get things done!

 

[Brinna]

"Nail-biter" comes to mind. That said: 15 states and counting! YAY!!!!!!