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MA: Marijuana measures head to voters, Hill

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Marijuana measures head to voters, Hill Penalties for possession would be reduced By Laura Crimaldi | Sunday, January 27, 2008 | A showdown over whether to relax penalties for having small quantities of pot is advancing to Beacon Hill on two joint fronts as the state?s top prosecutors and anti-drug activists vow a fight in the latest marijuana slugfest. The push to introduce a civil penalty system for pot possession is coming in the form of a ballot initiative almost entirely bankrolled by billionaire Democratic heavyweight George Soros and a Senate bill that has languished in the Legislature for years. ?The voters of Massachusetts are for this,? said Whitney A. Taylor, chairwoman of the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy, which is sponsoring the ballot effort to decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of pot...continue to full post

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