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one most aligns with their own opinon.
Nearly 24 percent of the respondents chose Todd
Lamb, who was ahead 14.08 percent to the next
highest Republican candidate Kevin Stitt.
Lamb publicly opposes recreational marijuana
and intends to vote against SQ 788. Stitt is in
favor of medical marijuana for patients with
legitimate needs but believes SQ 788 is too broad.
Democratic Candidates Drew Edmondson and
Connie Johnson were both in the top three with
18.31 and 15.49 percent respectively.
Both Edmondson and Johnson are advocating
in favor of SQ 788, but Edmondson says he
would like to wait and see how full recreational
legalization is going to play out in states like
Colorado.
Johnson believes legalizing marijuana will
unlock an “economic revolution” in the state and
will decrease incarceration rates and create jobs.
Supporters in favor of SQ 788 say that
legalization will help patients get access to
marijuana-based products which could provide
an alternative to opioid-based medicines which
in recent years has been said to have created a
national crisis.
They also believe that it will be able to create
jobs and decrease the overpopulation that prisons
around the state are experiencing.
Those opposed to SQ 788 say the measure is too have expressed concerns of their own about the Some independent studies from Colorado have
broad and compare it to recreational marijuana measure, saying the amount of marijuana licensees shown higher crash rates involving people who
rather than medical. could possess is too high. test positive for the presence of marijuana since
Law enforcement agencies around the state There are also those concerned about people the state legalized recreational marijuana in
being under the influence of marijuana while January 2014.
driving. SQ 788 will be on the ballot June 26.

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