[Vision2020] Hailey (Idaho) Passes Three Marijuana Initiatives, Rejects One

[Ralph Nielsen]

Not prosecuting users of marijuana seems to have been the norm in  
Vancouver BC for some years. Just recently, the new chief of police  
of Vancouver was interviewed on CBC Radio, BC This Week (podcast). He  
said the same. The police are far too busy trying to protect the  
public from real crime to take time out to pursue pot smokers.



[Vision2020] Hailey (Idaho) Passes Three Marijuana Initiatives,  
Rejects One

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Wed Nov 7 19:19:32 PST 2007>From the Idaho Statesman at:

http://tinyurl.com/yv998v

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Hailey passes three marijuana initiatives, rejects one

City residents voted Tuesday to legalize medical marijuana, make  
enforcing
pot laws the lowest police priority and decriminalize industrial hemp.
But they rejected a companion measure that foresaw the city  
regulating and
taxing legal pot sales.

The medical marijuana and industrial hemp measures each passed with 54
percent of the vote, while 51 percent of voters supported making pot  
arrests
the lowest police priority.

Meanwhile, the initiative to legalize pot sales to adults was  
supported by
only 46 percent of voters.

Just where this leaves this central Idaho town is uncertain, because
officials with the Idaho attorney general say state and federal laws  
that
criminalize all marijuana trump new municipal codes.

City officials said before the vote they expected litigation if the  
measures
passed.