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Has anyone proposed legalization ballot initiatives just to suck in out-of-state ad spending?

• gm-conspiracy 10y ago
  So, local tv, newspaper, and radio stations?
• SmellTheGlove 10y ago
  That's a good question. Probably not in Maine. We like to do things our own way. I'm a transplant and if I learned anything, it's that Mainers really resent outside interests telling us how we should do things. I'm surprised they allow me to vote :) I think there's some out of state money coming in on our Question 3 (background checks for person to person firearm transfers), in support of Yes. I don't think it has much of a chance of passing, most people I've talked to are sitting here thinking we have the 3rd lowest crime rate in the US, and we have bigger problems that actually need solving (opioid crisis, lack of white collar jobs, etc). Others are skeptical that it's a broadly drafted (some say poorly drafted) measure to pretext more searches.