Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we begin in Idaho, where the legislature is not on board with a medical marijuana ballot initiative. Then we turn our attention to Massachusetts, where there’s a ballot initiative to make cannabis illegal again, but new changes to existing law allow possession of more pot. We look at two governors who are urging their respective states to legalize. And finally, we hear from a Senator who is skeptical about medical marijuana.
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Idaho’s legislature disapproves of the medical marijuana initiative that may appear on the November ballot. Both the Senate and the House have passed a resolution urging voters to give a thumbs down to legalization. Assuming the initiative does appear on the ballot (not a given – see our report from two weeks ago), it will be very interesting to see if the voters reject cannabis or the advice of their elected representatives.
