Nearly half of Massachusetts voters who signed a petition to put a marijuana legalization rollback initiative on the ballot say they were misled by the anti-cannabis campaign’s signature collectors, according to a new poll.
The survey involved more than 2,300 residents who signed the petition for the measure backed by the Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts. It found that 1,163 voters said they would not have supported its ballot placement had they known it would repeal key parts of the state’s cannabis law allowing commercial sales.
Massachusetts officials are already reviewing complaints about allegedly deceptive signature gathering tactics for the initiative, which the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Elections Division certified for the ballot last month after the campaign turned in a sufficient number of petitions.
This latest poll, spearheaded by the pro-legalization Committee to Protect Cannabis Regulation, adds to suspicions that petitioners working on behalf of the Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts were either deliberately misleading voters or failing to disclose the initiative’s intent.
It showed that numerous voters were under the impression that the initiative petition they signed was meant to tackle non-marijuana issues such as public education, mitigating the fentanyl crisis and expanding housing opportunities, for example.
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