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Newsbrief:
Montana
Medical
Marijuana
Initiative
Winning
Two-To-One
in
Poll
10/1/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/356/poll.shtml
According to a poll published
Tuesday by the Missoulian newspaper, Montana voters favor an initiative
that would approve the use of medical marijuana in the state by a two-to-one
margin of 58% to 29%, with 13% undecided. The poll, a survey of 625
likely voters, was conducted by Mason-Dixon polling for a consortium of
Montana newspapers last week.
These same voters told pollsters
they would approve a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage (61%
to 32%) and a rise in tobacco taxes to pay for health programs (59% to
30%).
The medical marijuana initiative,
known as I-148, is sponsored by the Medical Marijuana Policy Project of
Montana (http://www.montanacares.org),
or MMPPM, and would protect patients, caregivers (growers), and doctors
from arrest or prosecution under state law. The initiative would
set up a state registry of patients and set limits on the number of plants
that patients or caregivers can grow. It would also allow people
arrested on marijuana charges to raise medical necessity as a defense.
The poll found women more
likely than men to support the initiative, with 63% of women saying they
would vote for it, compared to 53% of men. Men were also more likely
to vote against gay marriage and taxing tobacco.
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