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Marijuana legalization ballot drive launched in Michigan

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 04/13/2015 - 08:00

Michigan would legalize the use of marijuana for recreational use under the wording of a proposed ballot initiative submitted Thursday, the first of what could be competing legalization efforts.

If authorized by the Board of State Canvassers, the Michigan Cannabis Coalition's initiated law would require roughly 252,000 valid voter signatures before going to the Republican-led Legislature. If lawmakers rejected the bill or took no action, it would receive a statewide vote in November 2016.

The initiative is being backed financially by six to eight anonymous people from the agricultural, real estate, insurance and education sectors, said the ballot committee's spokesman, Matt Marsden. Donors will have to be identified later in campaign finance reports.

Marsden pointed to Ohio, where groups are collecting signatures for marijuana legalization ballot campaigns.

"We don't want people going to Toledo spending money when we can collect (tax) revenue from it," Marsden said, calling the drug's eventual...

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