With healthy margins, voters in Alaska and Oregon have voted in America’s third and fourth legal marijuana markets.

In Oregon, where the votes were counted earlier than in Alaska thus making it the third legal weed market:

The measure legalizes recreational marijuana for people ages 21 and older, allowing adults over this age to possess up to eight ounces of “dried” marijuana and up to four plants. Additionally, the measure tasks the Oregon Liquor Control Commission with regulating sales . The initiative was sponsored by the group New Approach Oregon. Anthony Johnson, the chief petitioner, hoped legislators would refer the measure to the ballot, however they failed to do so before the 2014 session ended on March 10, 2014. It is also known as the Control, Regulation, and Taxation of Marijuana and Industrial Hemp Act of 2014.

The race in Oregon at first appeared to be a nail-biter with polls bouncing back and forth between “no” and “yes.” But now voters have spoken again against the failed war on marijuana.

The Oregonian quotes longtime legalization advocate Anthony Johnson as he took the stage in Portland to announce the win:

The vote was “decades in the making.” “We have ended a painful, discriminatory, harmful policy that has terrible consequences for our state,” Johnson said. “We replaced it with a policy that is smarter, more humane. … It’s a policy whose time has come.”

In Alaska, the percentages are about the same … in favor of legalization: With all of the precincts counted at 1:30 a.m. in Alaska, 52.1 percent said “yes” against 47.8 percent voted “no.”

Ballot Measure 2, “An Act to tax and regulate the production, sale, and use of marijuana,” will do the following:

Makes possession of up to one ounce of marijuana and up to six plants (three flowering) legal for adults 21 years of age or older. It also allows adults to possess the marijuana produced by the plants on the premises where the plants are grown.

Makes manufacture, sale and possession of marijuana accessories legal.

Grants regulatory oversight to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, but gives the legislature the authority to create a new Marijuana Control Board at any time. The regulatory board has nine months to enact regulations, and applications shall be accepted one year after the effective date of the initiative.

Creates the following marijuana establishments: marijuana retail stores, marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana infused-product manufacturers, and marijuana testing facilities.

Allows localities to ban marijuana establishments, but they cannot prohibit private possession and home cultivation.

Establishes an excise tax of $50 per ounce on sales or transfers from a marijuana cultivation facility to a retail store or infused-product manufacturer.

Consumption of marijuana in public will remain illegal and punishable by a $100 fine.

The initiative does NOT change existing laws related to driving under the influence.

Allows employers to maintain restrictions on marijuana use by employees.

“This Election Day was an extraordinary one for the marijuana and criminal justice reform movements,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, in a news release. “Oregon proved that Colorado and Washington were no flukes. Washington, D.C. voters sent a powerful message to Congress that federal marijuana prohibition has no place in the nation’s capital. Voters in Florida and Guam demonstrated that medical marijuana could win big even in fairly conservative jurisdictions. And California and New Jersey revealed an electorate eager to reduce prison populations and the power of the prison industrial complex.”

“These victories are even more notable for having happened in a year when Democrats were trounced at the polls,” added Nadelmann. “Reform of marijuana and criminal justice policies is no longer just a liberal cause but a conservative and bipartisan one as well. On these issues at least, the nation is at last coming to its senses.”

Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a news release:

“The results are in, and marijuana prohibition is on its way out. From Alaska to Maine, voters are calling for more sensible, evidence-based marijuana policies. Americans are fed up with wasteful and ineffective laws that punish adults for using a less harmful substance than alcohol. “The folks trying to keep marijuana illegal are relying on the same scare tactics today that they have relied on for decades, but voters just aren’t falling for it anymore. The results are particularly encouraging since voter turnout during a midterm election is typically smaller, older, and more conservative. Clearly, support for ending marijuana prohibition spans the political and ideological spectrums. “Proposals to regulate marijuana like alcohol are headed for the ballots in at least five states in 2016, and they’re being considered in legislatures around the country. This year’s election was a large step forward, but the 2016 election will be a huge leap toward ending marijuana prohibition in this country once and for all.”

As expected, voters in Washington D.C. have approved legal marijuana. The initiative to make possessing and growing marijuana plants legal in the nation’s capital was leading 65 percent to 29 percent … enough for news organizations to call it a win.

The D.C. ballot initiative:

… allows adults over the age of 21 to possess up to two ounces of marijuana, give (but not sell) up to one ounce of marijuana to other adults, and cultivate up to three mature marijuana plants at home. If successful, the bill will be transmitted to Congress for a mandatory review period after lawmakers convene again in January. Without interference, the bill’s provisions could go into effect as soon as April 2015.

In Florida, where medical marijuana was on the ballot, voters approved the measure but not by the 60 percent necessary for initiatives to become law in that state. The AP reports that with nearly 90 percent of precincts reporting, about 57 percent of voters had voted yes.

“A tremendous majority of Floridians voted to legalize marijuana for medical purposes today – and that’s what really matters notwithstanding the fact that the initiative will not be implemented,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, in a news release. “Today’s vote is a confirmation of medical marijuana’s broad support across the political spectrum and sends a powerful message not just to Florida legislators but also throughout the South and even nationally.”









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Will voters create legal weed markets in Oregon and Alaska or just Oregon or just Alaska? It’s pretty clear Washington D.C. voters will legalize weed there through The DC Cannabis Campaign, but Congress will likely play the lead roll a few months later.

But we’ve got ideas for why Alaska and Oregon races are so close.

In Oregon, the conservative voters have more say on state-wide issues than in Washington where the Seattle region, a dense metropolitan region spanning three counties and several million people, holds more sway than Portland. And there are those people in Oregon who might want to dally in legal weed but only have to drive a few miles into the Wild West of southern Washington to do it.

So, more rural conservative Oregonians have to wonder if it’s worth the trouble to set up a marijuana market just to keep some damn kids in Portland out of jail. Polling does show clearly that conservatives in Oregon are strongly anti-legal weed.

What about those Alaskans?

In Alaska, voters there have to decide if legal weed is even really necessary. In 1975, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled citizens can’t be arrested for having and using marijuana in their homes. And, it has a robust medical marijuana system in place, which includes growing your own.

So, Alaskans have to decide if they want government and, possibly, big business involved in their weed.

Pre-election polling won’t tell you who’s likely to be on the winning team. The NY Times has a good roundup of the polling scene:

In Oregon, one recent poll by SurveyUSA showed supporters for marijuana legalization leading by 52 percent to 41 percent; another by Elway Research, for The Oregonian, found them behind by 46 to 44. The only recent public polls in Alaska were conducted by interested parties; unsurprisingly, pro-legalization forces found the question ahead, and opponents found it behind. The proposal in the District of Columbia is highly likely to pass: An NBC4/Washington Post/Marist poll found support at 65-33 in September. However, Congress can overrule Washington voters’ choice to legalize, and Representative Andy Harris, a Republican from Maryland, has signaled his intention to push Congress to do so. Florida will vote on medical marijuana. Because the state’s proposal is a constitutional amendment, it must get 60 percent of the vote to pass. There have been several polls this fall putting the measure on either side of that threshold.

Will Alaska legalize weed under Ballot Measure 2, “An Act to tax and regulate the production, sale, and use of marijuana”?

Will Alaskans legalize recreational marijuana? Yes

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Will Oregon legalize weed under Measure 91?

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Meanwhile, as The Huffington Post reports, Voters in Guam approved a ballot initiative today that would legalize marijuana for “debilitating medical conditions” such as epilepsy, HIV, cancer and glaucoma. The bill, which passed by more than 56 percent, makes Guam the first U.S. territory to legalize medical pot.

And, in Florida, voters there are expected to approve the creation of a medical marijuana market. There are also a plethora of more regional and city-based initiatives to reduce the penalties for possession of marijuana, such as a dozen or so in Michigan.

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