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Subject: Breaking: Initiative to legalize marijuana qualifies for November ballot

Los Angeles Times | March 24, 2010 | 5:18 p.m.


Initiative to legalize marijuana qualifies for California's November ballot


State election officials announced Wednesday that an initiative to legalize marijuana will be on the November ballot, triggering what will likely be an expensive, divisive and much-watched campaign to decide whether California will again lead the nation in softening drug laws.


Los Angeles County election officials turned in their official estimate of the number of valid signatures just before 5 p.m. Wednesday, putting the measure beyond the 433,971 needed to make the ballot. The county, where one-fifth of the signatures were collected, was the last to report its count.


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