Marijuana reform initiatives on the ballot in 2012 - Official Results Thread

[AGRP]

You have to buy it at a state store? wow. That is not legalization.

 

[trey4sports]

I wonder if Obama will change his current policy now that reelection is not on the table? I remember reading an article that said drug policy reform was on his to-do list if he won reelection.

 

[jct74]

here's the results of the local initiatives, I got most of this information from an article on Stop The Drug War.

Local Initiatives


Detroit, MI - Proposal M seeks to remove criminal penalties for possession on private property of up to one ounce of marijuana by adults by adults age 21 and older.

Website: http://saferdetroit.net/index.php

RESULT: PASSED with 65% of vote!


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Flint, MI - Voters will decide whether to remove criminal penalties for possession on private property of up to one ounce of marijuana (or marijuana paraphernalia) by adults age 19 and older.

RESULT: PASSED with 57% of vote!


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Grand Rapids, MI - Proposal 2 seeks to allow local law enforcement the discretion to ticket first-time marijuana offenders with a civil citation, punishable by a $25 fine and no criminal record.

Website: http://decriminalizegr.org/

RESULT: PASSED with 60% of vote!


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Ypsilanti, MI - Voters will decide whether to make the local enforcement of marijuana possession offenses the city’s lowest law enforcement priority.

RESULT: PASSED with 74% of vote!


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Kalamazoo, MI - Voters will decide whether to allow the opening of 3 medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.

RESULT: PASSED with 64% of vote!


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California - A number of towns, mostly in the San Diego area, will vote on local initiatives to allow medical marijuana dispensaries. Those include Del Mar, Imperial Beach, Lemon Grove, and Solana Beach, as well as Palo Alto. The town of Dunsmuir will vote on whether to loosen cultivation regulations.

RESULTS: Measures in Del Mar, Imperial Beach, Lemon Grove, and Solana Beach to allow dispensaries all FAILED by a relatively wide margin. Measure in Dunsmuir to loosen regulations FAILED with 47%.


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Colorado - Berthoud will be voting on whether to ban dispensaries, and Fort Collins will be voting on whether to overturn the ban on dispensaries voted in last November.

RESULTS: Berthoud's measure FAILED with only 43% supporting a ban on dispensaries. The measure in Fort Collins to overturn a ban on dispensaries PASSED with 55%.


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Massachusetts - In a continuation of work done in the past six election cycles, voters in a number of legislative districts will be asked a non-binding public policy question. In the First Essex and Middlesex Senate District, the Eighth Essex House District, and the Twenty-Second Essex House District voters will be asked whether they support repeal of the "federal prohibition of marijuana, as the 21st Amendment repealed national prohibition of alcohol, so that states may regulate it as they choose?" Voters in the Second Middlesex Senate District, the Middlesex and Suffolk Senate District, and the Second Berkshire House District will answer a similar question.

RESULTS: All measures PASSED by a wide margin. See here for details.


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Washington - Voters in six cities -- Bellingham, Bremerton, Everett, Kent, Olympia, and Spokane -- will vote on initiatives to make marijuana the lowest law enforcement priority and prohibit local officials from cooperating with federal marijuana law enforcement activities.

RESULTS: couldn't find any information, but marijuana is now legal in WA anyways

I also updated the OP with the latest results from the statewide initiatives if anyone is interested.

 

[WhistlinDave]

Even if these initiatives in Colorado and Washington aren't perfect, the important thing is, THE VOTERS PASSED THEM. The process of ending marijuana prohibition on the Federal level will probably take several years--hopefully not too too many--but this is the first step. Now that the people have spoken, and we have two states who "JUST SAY NO" to Federal law, the Federal government will be forced to deal with the issue. I predict more states will follow too.

This is how alcohol prohibition ended. States began voting to re-legalize, and eventually the Feds had no choice but to lift the Federal ban as well. And coincidentally, Colorado was one of the first states to vote to end that prohibition, back in 1932.

I'm so stoked on this!!! The house of cards cannot continue to stand. The whole thing is coming down now. Might take a little time, but there is no stopping it now.

WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Suck it, Kerlikowski!!!!!!!!!