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Highlights of State and Local Ballot Measures 
Posted by FoM on November 01, 2000 at 13:39:41 PT
By Associated Press
Source: Boston Globe
Election Day, voters in 42 states decide more than 200 referendums and initiatives. Among those of interest: ALABAMA: Repeal ban on black-white marriage. ALASKA: Legalize marijuana; restore full ban on 'land-and-shoot' hunting; cap property taxes. 
ARIZONA: End bilingual education; decide how to spend tobacco settlement; raise sales tax to fund education; require cities, counties to set growth limits; raise tourist taxes to build football stadium. ARKANSAS: Allow state lottery, casinos, charity bingo to fund education, including state college tuition for any high school graduate; spending tobacco settlement. CALIFORNIA: Give $4,000 voucher to any child for private school; limit campaign financing; drug treatment instead of jail for nonviolent, minor drug offenders; allow 25 marijuana plants per adult in Mendocino County; spending tobacco settlement; limit office development (San Francisco). COLORADO: Buyer background check before gun show sale; 24-hour wait for abortion; allow medicinal marijuana; allow multistate lottery games; require voter approval for real estate development. CONNECTICUT: Abolish county sheriffs. FLORIDA: Build high-speed trains between urban areas; appoint instead of elect trial judges. INDIANA: End automatic state Supreme Court appeal for sentences of 50 years or more. LOUISIANA: Boost school funding by raising income taxes and ending state deduction for federal taxes; abolish food, utilities tax. (Both must pass or neither takes effect.) MAINE: Allow doctor-assisted suicide; outlaw bias on basis of sexual orientation; give voting rights to mentally ill adults with guardians. MASSACHUSETTS: End greyhound racing; limit voting by imprisoned felons; finance drug treatment with sale of property seized in drug busts; cut income tax. MICHIGAN: Offer private school vouchers in districts where fewer than two-thirds of students graduate. MINNESOTA: Change city name of Ventura to St. Augusta or Augsburg. MISSOURI: Allow taxpayer-financed campaigns; ban new billboards on interstates and tree removal except for safety, or environmental reasons. MONTANA: Limit game farms for hunting; repeal inheritance tax; spending tobacco settlement. NEBRASKA: Limit state senators to two consecutive terms; define marriage as man-woman only and bar recognition of same-sex civil unions or similar ties. NEVADA: Define marriage as man-woman only; allow medicinal marijuana. NEW JERSEY: Create online sex-offender database NEW MEXICO: End term limits for county offices. NEW YORK: Issue $3.8 billion bonds for transportation projects. NORTH CAROLINA: Issue $3.1 billion bonds for higher education. NORTH DAKOTA: Establish right to hunt, trap, fish. OKLAHOMA: Spending tobacco settlement. OREGON: Buyer background check before gun show sale; ban public school instruction ''encouraging, promoting, sanctioning'' homosexuality; allow full state deduction for federal income taxes; spending tobacco settlement (two measures); allow taxpayer-funded campaigns; repeal mandatory minimum sentences for 21 violent crimes; ban body-gripping animal traps; tie pay for public, college teachers to student achievement; require conviction before confiscating property in drug busts. SOUTH CAROLINA: Allow state lottery for education; cut auto tax. SOUTH DAKOTA: End state-run video lottery; raise bet limit at Deadwood casinos to $100; repeal inheritance tax. TEXAS: Use tourist taxes to build Houston-area arena. UTAH: Make English official state language; spending tobacco settlement. VIRGINIA: Establish right to hunt, fish. WASHINGTON: Allow charter schools; ban body-gripping animal traps; guarantee annual raises for public school, community college staff; nullify tax, fee increases since 1999, roll back property tax valuations and curb property tax rises. WEST VIRGINIA: Create family court system; allow Greenbrier resort to turn fallout shelter into casino. Published: November 1, 2000© Copyright 2000 Boston Globe Electronic Publishing, Inc. CNN Talk Back Live Transcripts For Prop 36 & Alaskahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7475.shtmlA Guide To Drug-Related State Ballot Initiatives http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7354.shtmlCannabisNews Articles - Campaign 2000http://cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=Campaign+2000
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Comment #2 posted by mungojelly on November 02, 2000 at 08:02:08 PT:
if alaska doesn't pass
The real question I think, is if the initiative in Alaska doesn't pass (and it probably won't), what will the next step be? Will we see another legalization initiative that is more "moderate," without the amnesty and reparation provisions? It may turn out that this year's initiative was brilliant salesmanship -- show them this initiative first, and when they see a more modest legalization initiative, they'll say "well now that's better" and vote for it. 
mungojelly
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Comment #1 posted by Richardcuz on November 01, 2000 at 16:30:40 PT
wow
Please get that thing for Alaska. So's I can toke on my dope.
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