The Next Seven States to Legalize Marijuana?David Borden Also interesting about Oregon, is that I thought the loss there while two other states passed would settle the debate over how to write an initiative whether to poll and do focus groups and write one that the research says can pass, or to just go for broke with the language you like the two initiatives that did the former won, the one that did the latter lost. But given how well Measure 80 did despite having no funding has some activists including a number of friends of mine saying that we dont have to compromise, or compromise as much, in order to win. If the funds come on board, the money and the real campaign it would enable could make up those 3.7 percentage points, is the reasoning. But do I know that for sure? No. Oregons vote should certainly be studied to see what can be learned. So should Colorados, a system that is pretty different from and a lot more open than Washingtons. (At a Cato forum last week, former DEA chief Asa Hutchinson scarcely even mentioned Washington.) One way or another, it is very likely that a page of history turned last month. Whether as many as seven states will go for legalization in the next few years, or whether Rolling Stone has called all the right ones, only time can tell. But the optimism is certainly appropriate time is on the side of marijuana legalization, and I hope for overall drug reform as well. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 