Arizona Voters Approve Medical Marijuana Measure!

• By Cali Shaye
• Legalize Marijuana
• 13 years ago
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Daily News @ RevolutionNews.US ~ (AP) Arizona voters have approved a measure that will legalize medical marijuana in the state. Proposition 203 won by a tiny margin of just 4341 votes out of more than 1.67 million votes counted. The measure started out losing by about 7200 votes on Nov. 2 and the gap gradually narrowed in the following 10 days. The measure began Friday losing by about 1500 votes, then surged ahead by 4421 votes. Maricopa was the only Arizona county with ballots still outstanding on Saturday. The county finished counting all the remaining provisional and early ballots by late in the afternoon. The final, unofficial count was 841346 in favor of the measure and 837005 opposed. Arizona is the 15th state to approve a medical marijuana law. California was the first in 1996, and 13 other states and Washington, DC, have since followed suit. Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved a medical marijuana law in 1996 and 1998, but it never went into effect because of problems with its wording. Then in 2002, voters rejected a sweeping initiative that would have decriminalized possession of up to 2 ounces of marijuana for any user and required state police to hand out the drug to seriously ill people. Article www.cbsnews.com — Hemp: Fuel, Paper, Fiber, Food, Medicine… Educate Yourself! Jack Herer, RIP — “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” —Thomas Jefferson Time For A New American …