Recreational marijuana backers expect to begin gathering signatures as legislative deadline looms without action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Under the proposal, people ages 21 and older could purchase marijuana at a state-regulated dispensary, or grow up to six cannabis plants at their primary residence for adult use.
47% : Revenues from the 10% tax would go to funds to support jobs and economic development, funding and treatment for cannabis addiction and other substance addictions and defraying the costs of regulation and administering the tax.
40% : Part of the 10% tax would also go toward "social equity issues" - which would aim to hire people from disadvantaged social and economic groups in the marijuana industry; study and fund criminal justice reform; study and propose policies related to the effects of enforcement of marijuana laws; and track and prevent underage use of marijuana.

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