Question 8State law · Citizen initiative
Repeal recreational marijuana sales
Explain it like I'm 5
Adults can now buy recreational marijuana in licensed stores and grow some at home. A yes vote would end those sales and home grows, but adults could still possess a limited amount and use medical marijuana.
Yes vote
A yes vote repeals laws permitting, regulating, and taxing recreational marijuana sales and home cultivation, while preserving limited adult possession.
No vote
A no vote keeps the current regulated recreational marijuana system.
The question to ask yourself
Would ending regulated adult-use sales improve health and safety enough to justify losing the legal market?
The case for
- Could reduce youth exposure and concerns about high-potency products.
- Ends commercial promotion and retail access.
- Keeps medical marijuana available and limited adult possession legal.
Backed by: Smart Approaches to Marijuana, Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts
The case against
- Could eliminate legal businesses, jobs, and tax revenue.
- Could push sales into an unregulated market without testing.
- Creates a mismatch between allowing limited possession and ending legal supply.
Opposed by: Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition, MassCann, Marijuana Policy Project
- Money
- The net fiscal effect is not estimated in the sources reviewed; repeal would end tax revenue from recreational sales.
- Don't be misled
- Saying it makes all marijuana possession illegal is misleading because adults could still possess a limited amount and medical marijuana would remain legal.