<HR style="COLOR: #d1d1e1" SIZE=1> this news just in from the Marijuana Policy Project - Aug. 7, 2006 ... Support for Nevada initiative is split 50% to 50%! Great news! The Marijuana Policy Project recently commissioned a survey of 5,000 registered voters in Nevada which revealed that voters are split precisely 50% to 50% on our ballot initiative. Our initiative - which the Nevada government has already certified for the November 7 ballot - would end marijuana prohibition entirely for adults aged 21 and older ... if the initiative receives over 50% of the vote. Only five times in the history of the country has a state voted on such a ballot initiative. The best showing so far was the 44.5% vote in Alaska in November 2004, so the fact that our survey shows the Nevada initiative is polling at 50% to 50% is significant. We used Nevada's voter rolls to make our calls, which means we know we were surveying 5,000 actual registered voters. (In typical public opinion polling, a polling firm will call random phone numbers and "screen out" people who say they're not registered to vote or unlikely to vote, and end up with 500 completed interviews.) Interestingly, we discovered that regular voters are just as likely to support our initiative as voters who vote irregularly - both groups of voters are split 50% to 50% on our initiative. So we need every supportive Nevadan to vote in this election, which could end up nearly tying at 300,000 to 300,000 votes. If we succeed in passing the initiative, Nevada would be the only place in the world to permit the cultivation, distribution, and sale of marijuana to adults aged 21 and older. Please visit the campaign's Web site for more information about the campaign, breaking news, the staff's blog, merchandise, ways you can get involved - from anywhere in the country - and much more. Please get involved. Winning this campaign will be the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition. Sincerely, Rob Kampia Executive Director Marijuana Policy Project Washington, D.C. Raised in '06 $2,159,062 Goal in '06 $3,500,000 Days until Election Day 92 MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in our 2006 strategic plan if you and other allies are generous enough to fund our work. __________________
Man this is crazy! I've heard about this recently, if it happens it would truly be the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition