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Rolling Stone Cannabis Is the Latest Battlefield in the Republican War on Democracy
Conservative lawmakers are asking the courts to block the will of the people on pro-legalization ballot initiatives
By Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty Images
Ken Newburger felt like he’d been blindsided.
He knew a legal challenge had been mounted against the medical cannabis ballot initiative he’d worked on last year in Mississippi. He knew the state’s Supreme Court had taken up the case. But the argument against Initiative 65 was so nonsensical that Newburger had zero doubt the court would rule to uphold the measure. He was wrong: The court overturned it, and with it the will of the 74 percent of Mississippi voters who approved it last fall.