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In 2016, 54% of Massachusetts voters cast their ballots in favor of legalizing adult-use cannabis in the commonwealth, a sharp rebuke of many state leaders, including Gov. Charlie Baker, Attorney General Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who co-authored an op-ed in The Boston Globe earlier that year, opposing the initiative. After the ballot measure passed, dozens of Central Massachusetts cities and towns placed bans and moratoriums on potential cannabis businesses.
 
Massachusetts adult-use cannabis stores officially opened two years later, in November 2018. Since that time, community fears about dispensaries and adult-use consumers wreaking havoc on town safety, traffic backups and other community concerns have largely gone unrealized. While the industry has rolled out slower than expected, cannabis firms have generated $1.22 billion in revenue for the Massachusetts economy since those first stores opened, with significant tax revenues going to the state and hosting municipalities. Regulators and businesses face other challenges, particularly in their efforts to recruit store owners from disadvantaged communities who were targeted to benefit the most, an effort that has fallen well short of its target.

Has your opinion on legal cannabis changed since 2016?
Yes, I support it now after previously opposing it. (9%, 21 VOTES)
No, I supported legal cannabis then and I support it now. (58%, 129 VOTES)
Yes, I now oppose legalization after previously supporting it. (3%, 7 VOTES)
No, I still do not support legalization. (29%, 65 VOTES)
Poll Description

In 2016, 54% of Massachusetts voters cast their ballots in favor of legalizing adult-use cannabis in the commonwealth, a sharp rebuke of many state leaders, including Gov. Charlie Baker, Attorney General Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who co-authored an op-ed in The Boston Globe earlier that year, opposing the initiative. After the ballot measure passed, dozens of Central Massachusetts cities and towns placed bans and moratoriums on potential cannabis businesses.
 
Massachusetts adult-use cannabis stores officially opened two years later, in November 2018. Since that time, community fears about dispensaries and adult-use consumers wreaking havoc on town safety, traffic backups and other community concerns have largely gone unrealized. While the industry has rolled out slower than expected, cannabis firms have generated $1.22 billion in revenue for the Massachusetts economy since those first stores opened, with significant tax revenues going to the state and hosting municipalities. Regulators and businesses face other challenges, particularly in their efforts to recruit store owners from disadvantaged communities who were targeted to benefit the most, an effort that has fallen well short of its target.

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  • March 2, 2021
    We pay a lot of lip service to combatting alcoholism and drunk driving, then promote / advertise alcohol, and turn a blind eye to drunk driving in so many circumstances. We pay a lot of attention to drug / substance abuse--but heroin, cocaine, and other drugs are still a devastating circumstance for so many, and we don't fund enough facilities to help thousands in this kind of addiction. Now we -while paying lip service to fighting substance abuse--have made a mind-altering substance legal. Our world continues to come apart at the seams.
  • March 2, 2021

    If Charlie, Maura and Marty are against it, I am all for it.