November Ballot to Include Option to Overturn Cannabis Legalization
Great Barrington’s entire recreational cannabis apparatus could be null and void come January, if a group of marijuana opponents, who just topped their last legal hurdle before election day, have their way.
The Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts wants to overturn the 2016 ballot measure through which voters legalized recreational cannabis and set the stage for the adult-use industry since the first dispensaries opened in late 2018.
It has succeeded in getting onto the November 3 ballot a measure to eliminate the entire adult-use regulatory framework in the state that’s filled state and local coffers with billions of dollars in tax revenue. Their effort would include home grows, and would limit the industry to medical marijuana only. Funding for the signature-gathering — over $1.5 million — came almost entirely not from in-state but from a single source, a subsidiary of Smart Approache…
