Sentences with phrase «legalization initiative»

Maine just approved its legalization initiative and its fully legal market is not yet operational.

Growing public acceptance of marijuana, highlighted by a slew of successful legalization initiatives, is encouraging investment.

California's Proposition 64 was the most important of all the legalization initiatives on the ballot this November.

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Pot legalization passed in Oregon and Washington, D.C., and a yes vote was lately looking likely in Alaska, although a medical marijuana initiative failed in Florida.

Initiatives to land marijuana legalization on 2016 ballots are well underway in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Nevada, while a handful of other states could also put legalization to a vote.

The ongoing public debate over the legalization of assisted suicide draws participants whose primary concern is not the issue itself but who find it the ideal occasion to advance collateral social initiatives.

Robertson told the Times that he «absolutely» supports pro-marijuana legalization ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington, though he said he would not actively campaign for them.

Hell, in the US all full legalizations have been through ballot initiatives, which are entirely the voters» decision.

With an eye on his re-election in November, Cuomo delivered a laundry list of initiatives certain to be endorsed by key voting blocs, from tax relief for homeowners and tenants to the legalization of medical marijuana.

A group of state senators went on a fact - finding trip to Colorado and consulted with 75 experts to come up with a number of recommendations on how the state legislature should respond if the legalization ballot initiative passes in November.

Since then, he's signed an executive order to allow parolees to vote, pushed a study about marijuana legalization, announced initiatives to address the high maternity - mortality rate among black women and, after years of criticism, forced an end to a split among state Senate Democrats that kept Republicans in control of the chamber.

Legalization of the state takeover program was spearheaded two years ago by former state lawmaker Rob Bryan, who now sits on AAC's board of directors, and lobbying for the initiative was funded at least in part by John Bryan, the Oregon school choice booster (no relation to Rob Bryan) who founded the TeamCFA charter network.