The measure known as Issue 3 on Tuesday's ballot would have allowed adults 21 and older to use, purchase or grow certain amounts of marijuana. The constitutional amendment would have established a regulatory and taxation scheme while creating a network of 10 growing facilities.
The 10 growing facilities was in the same Issue as the legalization question.
Issue 2 was created solely to counteract that part of Issue 3. See below.
And if anyone thinks that this aspect of regulating the legalization would’ve stopped anybody who was in favor of legal pot from voting for it, you are absolutely a liar or a fool: “Commercial growth was to be controlled for at least the first four years by investment groups at 10 specified locations around the state.”
You seriously think there are scores of potheads who drew a moral stand against the idea of investment groups managing the growth for 4 years? Anyone who says that has absolutely no grasp on reality and is probably a libertarian.
Issue 2, an anti-monopoly amendment, was hurriedly put together by the General Assembly earlier this year when lawmakers realized the legalization issue was likely to make the ballot. Issuke 2 measure requires supporters of monopolies, oligopolies and cartels to secure voter approval twice at the same election – one time to exempt the issue from the monopoly ban and a second time for the proposal itself.