Marijuana Advocates Lay Groundwork for Legalization in Mass.
Advocates of marijuana legalization, emboldened by successes with ballot questions in Colorado and Washington state, are laying the groundwork for such a battle in Massachusetts in the next presidential election year. “In 2016, Massachusetts will find itself in the crosshairs for cannabis reform,” said Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of NORML, a national group that favors the legalization of marijuana. Massachusetts voters passed measures that decriminalized possession of small amounts of the drug in 2008 and allowed its use [...]