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Though voters in three states rejected initiatives to amend state penalties on the use and possession of marijuana, many communities voted to make pot a low priority for their police departments.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws said voters in Santa Barbara, Santa Monica and Santa Cruz voted to make marijuana the lowest priority for law enforcement in their communities.
Similar initiatives in Eureka Springs, Ark., and Missoula, Mont., also passed.
An effort in Colorado to eliminate civil penalties on possession of up to an ounce of marijuana failed by about 11 percentage points.
Voters in Nevada elected against an initiative that would remove all civil penalties and direct state officials to create a statewide legal cultivation, distribution, taxation and sale system. The initiative received 44 percent of the vote.
A medical marijuana effort in South Dakota failed by about 3 percentage points.
”What these results tell us is that citizens strongly support reforming America's marijuana laws, but they prefer to do so incrementally,” said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre.
Newshawk: user - 420 Magazine
Source: Times - Standard
Pubdate: 9 November 2006
Author: Chris Durant
Copyright: 2006 Times - Standard
Contact: cdurant@times-standard.com
Website: Times-Standard Online - Voters around the country fail to 'liberalize' marijuana, but many vote to 'deprioritize'
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws said voters in Santa Barbara, Santa Monica and Santa Cruz voted to make marijuana the lowest priority for law enforcement in their communities.
Similar initiatives in Eureka Springs, Ark., and Missoula, Mont., also passed.
An effort in Colorado to eliminate civil penalties on possession of up to an ounce of marijuana failed by about 11 percentage points.
Voters in Nevada elected against an initiative that would remove all civil penalties and direct state officials to create a statewide legal cultivation, distribution, taxation and sale system. The initiative received 44 percent of the vote.
A medical marijuana effort in South Dakota failed by about 3 percentage points.
”What these results tell us is that citizens strongly support reforming America's marijuana laws, but they prefer to do so incrementally,” said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre.
Newshawk: user - 420 Magazine
Source: Times - Standard
Pubdate: 9 November 2006
Author: Chris Durant
Copyright: 2006 Times - Standard
Contact: cdurant@times-standard.com
Website: Times-Standard Online - Voters around the country fail to 'liberalize' marijuana, but many vote to 'deprioritize'
