Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Initiative Makes Ballot

Voters in Massachusetts will have the chance to decide in November whether to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana. A spokesman for Secretary of State William Galvin said last Tuesday that proponents had successfully delivered the 11,000 additional signatures necessary and the measure had qualified for the ballot.

Earlier this year, proponents had gathered some 80,000 voter signatures so that if the legislature failed to act on pending medical marijuana bills — and it did fail to act — by May 1, they only needed the additional 11,000 to take the issue directly to the voters.

READ MORE: The Daily Chronic, July 10, 2012