It Appears That Only One Flavor of Legalization Will Make the CA Ballot This November [View all]

East Bay Express (06 Apr 2016)

It Appears That Only One Flavor of Legalization Will Make the Ballot This November, and It Might Have a Strange Ally.

For those wondering what's going to happen with the crowded field of proposals to legalize cannabis in California this year, look no further than an independent source of information with boots on the ground: paid signature-gatherers. Thousands of these mercenaries have fanned out across the Golden State this April, earning an estimated $2.50 per signature to help place pot legalization on the ballot.

I ran into a man named Alan, a paid signature-gatherer from Vallejo, in the BART's Embarcadero Station last week. Alan said voters are ready to legalize it.

He didn't want to give me his last name because he didn't have his employer's permission to speak to the press, but the self-described veteran signature-gatherer of eight years - four California election cycles - had plenty of insight into how voters will lean this November.

Despite twenty-three different legalization proposals on file with the state, paid gatherers in California are now working on one initiative - the Adult Use of Marijuana Act ( AUMA ). It's almost certain that the initiatives sponsors will file enough signatures to qualify it for the ballot by the state's final deadline, April 26.

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