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Another marijuana ballot proposition worth watching this November

By Douglas A. Berman

California's Proposition 19 calling for the legalization of marijuana even for recreational uses is, of course, the biggest drug war political story this November.  But as detailed in this local piece from Arizona, which is headlined "Prop 203: Details on Push to Legalize Medical Marijuana," another western state has a pot ballot proposition worth watching.  Here are the basic details: Whether to legalize medical marijuana will be on the ballot this November, and Arizona voters will decide whether to allow doctors to prescribe it to some patients. And the state hopes to regulate the drug if the measure passes. "We need to have rules in place from the outset," says Andrew Myers, campaign manager for the Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 14, 2010 (boomark / email).