Looks like legalizing marijuana in Maine has taken another step.  Is the green tide coming in?

Last night, the South Portland City Council voted 7-0 to put a question on this November 4th's ballot that would ask residents if possessing up to an ounce of recreational marijuana should be legal.

All seven councilors voiced their opposition to the legalization of marijuana.

Recently, Maine’s chapter of the Marijuana Policy Project presented the city council with over 1,100 signatures asking for the question to be put on the ballot.

David Boyer is the Maine political director of the Marijuana Policy Project and his position is that pot is much less harmful than alcohol.

Boyer's group is also targeting Lewiston and York.

The Board of Selectmen in York voted not to put the question to ballot, forcing Boyer's group to begin collecting petition signatures.  They must collect a total of 641 signatures to get the question on November 's ballot.

In Lewiston, Boyer's group collected enough signatures so that the city council will vote September 2nd as to whether or not to put the question on November's ballot.

Portland has already made small amounts of recreational marijuana legal.  Although, authorities there say that they will continue to enforce the federal laws pertaining to marijuana possession.

Step by step, the Marijuana Policy Project's ultimate goal is to get a question pertaining to legalized marijuana possession here in Maine on a state wide ballot in November of 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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