Could Michigan become the next state to legalize pot?
That's possible.
Bill Laitner of the Detroit Free Press writes that a new survey of state residents likely to vote this fall found 53% favor legalizing and taxing marijuana.
The Freep reports that groups hope to gather 253,000 signatures in Michigan to get a marijuana measure on November ballots.
“Support for legalizing marijuana continues to increase here at a rate of at least 2% per year — that’s what we’ve been tracking in Michigan, and it seems to be roughly the same across the country,” said Detroit lawyer Matt Abel, a long-time supporter of legal pot, acording to the Freep.
“To me, this poll actually under-represents the real number of people who truly would vote for legalization because some people just don’t want to admit how they feel to a pollster,” said Abel, the executive director of Michigan NORML — the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Michigan NORML commissioned the new poll, the Freep reports.
