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State voters reject legalizing marijuana
By ED VOGEL - REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU
CARSON CITY -- The drive to make Nevada the first state with legal marijuana failed overwhelmingly Tuesday as voters decisively defeated Question 9. Nearly complete statewide returns showed 61 percent of the voters opposed Question 9. Passage would have allowed adults to possess as much as 3 ounces of marijuana. Thirty-nine percent backed the initiative placed on the ballot through petitions circulated by Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement.

"We are elated," said Sandy Heverly, one of the leaders of the Coalition Against Legalized Marijuana. "I think the message we have sent to these people is never underestimate the power of good people who have a lot of passion." Heverly, executive director of STOP DUI, had emphasized throughout the campaign that Nevadans did not need another legal drug added to the problems already associated with alcohol abuse. She said 57 people have died in the last five years in accidents involving Nevada motorists who had used marijuana and that with legalization that number would increase. "Once you leave the glitz and glamor of the Las Vegas Strip, you will find families who go to work every day, go to church and who do not want their children subjected to more drugs in our society," she said. The move to make Nevada the first state with legal marijuana captured the nation's attention. Media flocked to Las Vegas to write accounts of the latest sin in Sin City and national drug czar John Walters made two trips to Nevada, calling marijuana a gateway drug that can destroy lives.

posted by A Curmudgeon 6:01 AM