SJC keeps recreational marijuana repeal in the mix for November

A CONTROVERSIAL PUSH to revoke recreational marijuana legalization remains on track to be decided by voters after the state’s highest court on Friday rejected a legal challenge seeking to toss the measure.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the attorney general’s office properly certified and summarized the question, whose campaign is funded by a national dark-money group fighting legal drug use in multiple states.

If organizers collect enough signatures this month — which is nearly guaranteed given that the final haul required is far less than an earlier signature threshold — the measure will lock in a spot on the November ballot, tasking Bay Staters with choosing whether to walk back their 2016 vote to legalize and launch a multibillion-dollar recreational cannabis industry.

The campaign has been fraught with controversy, both over the policy particulars and over the route taken.



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