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"Backers of Legal Marijuana Find Silver Lining in Defeat of California Measure"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this piece from today's New York Times.  Here is how it starts: Proposition 19, which would have legalized marijuana in California, received more votes than the Republican nominee for governor, Meg Whitman.  It also received untold news coverage, bringing the debate a new level of legitimacy in the eyes of many supporters. And while it lost ? with 46 percent of the vote ? its showing at the polls was strong enough that those supporters are confidently planning to bring it back before voters in California, and perhaps other states, in 2012. ?We?re going to win,? said Aaron Houston, the executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, a nonprofit group in Washington.  ?And we?re going to win a whole lot sooner than anybody thinks...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 14, 2010 (boomark / email).