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Law enforcement agents back marijuana legalization in new Washington ads
New Approach Washington unveiled new advertisements Wednesday that show former law enforcement officials supporting Initiative 502. The ballot initiative would legalize the production and sale of marijuana in Washington state through state-licensed stores, if approved by voters in November. Under the proposed law, the Washington State Liquor Control Board would…
Ballot initiative looks to save Los Angeles pot shops
Drug reform activists in Los Angeles said they will file more than 50,000 petition signatures on Wednesday supporting a ballot initiative that would halt City Hall’s plan to shut down nearly all the medical marijuana dispensaries. The city requires just 27,400 signatures to leverage an initiative onto the ballot. If…
Passage of California’s Prop. 37 would make it first state to label genetically modified food
Prop. 37: Will California be first state to label genetically modified food? (via The Christian Science Monitor) Another multimillion-dollar fight over a ballot initiative – with big implications for the country – is brewing here in California. The initiative, which is on the ballot this November, has a mouthful of…
D.C. ballot initiative would ban corporate contributions to political campaigns
The group D.C. Trust on Monday submitted more than 30,000 signatures to the D.C. Board of Elections in support of a ballot initiative seeking to prohibit corporations from making direct campaign donations to political candidates. “D.C. residents want to see Initiative 70 on the ballot,” said Bryan Weaver, who filed…
Nevada judge rewrites ‘misleading’ personhood ballot initiative
A Nevada state judge on Monday rewrote a fetal personhood ballot measure after ruling it was misleading because the measure did not explain the full extent it would have on Nevada law. The ballot measure, proposed by the Nevada Prolife Coalition, seeks to add an amendment to Nevada’s constitution that…
Reproductive rights and the power of the secret ballot
Going into the polls yesterday, there was strong reason to worry that Misssippi voters would vote to amend their constitution to declare fertilized eggs to be "persons". After all, a slight majority of voters favored the ballot initiative going in. And the people who strongly favorited it, basically white Republicans, are…
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