The extensive efforts to fully legalize the sales of marijuana have been rejected to come through in Olympia. However, voters around the state might have the final say.
Washington is exerting so much effort to fully make their state the first state to legalize marijuana with their measure on reaching the ballot this year. `And they are expecting a better and bigger funded campaign next year.
Alison Holcomb, drug policy director of state’s Civil Liberties Union Chapter and is gathering people as potential supporters in Washington and all other places said, “We’re very interested in the possibility of something being on the ballot in 2012.”
Initiative 1149 this year seek legalization of marijuana for adults 18 years old and above if it will reach the statewide ballot for the election on November 2011. Volunteers kept on distributing the petitions but had just collected a total of 15,093 in six weeks since March 13.
They have a target of 241,000 valid signatures. And they are hoping for a warm weather so that they can campaign more and a warm reception from their donors.
They have raised funds of $18,600 between December and March. But they spent most of it for the printing and the mailing petition. But they could not get to hire professional signature gatherers. Initiative 1149 co-author Douglas Hiatt who is also an attorney in Seattle said that they need somebody with a big checkbook to simply pay them into the ballot.
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