Idaho marijuana group aims for legalization in 2016

December 1, 2014
robomayor
Idaho
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The campaign to legalize pot in Idaho has begun. Again.

New Approach Idaho is a new anti-prohibition group in a state that has seen many of its kind fail. Beginning with legalizing medical marijuana, their biggest goal is to have full on legalization.

Outspoken group member, Bill Esbensen, believes “prohibition has failed.” He says, “If we regulate it, then much of it will be off the street.”

No stranger to the results of prohibition, Esbensen is in the process of appealing a 2013 conviction in which he illegally profited from a medical marijuana dispensary and treated it as a commercial enterprise. Legislation, however, was passed this year that now allows those acts.

While there are 23 states that have legalized marijuana use in some fashion, Idaho lawmakers have rejected all attempts to legalize.

Compassionate Idaho, a prior legalization organization with many of the same members as New Approach, tried to have a medical use initiative on the 2012 and 2014 ballots but both attempts failed to receive enough voter signatures.

Rob Meagher

Rob Meagher, CBE’s Founder, President and Editor-in-Chief is a 30 year veteran of the media world. His career has spanned from stints representing the Washington Post, USA Weekend, Reader’s Digest, Financial World & Corporate Finance to the technology world where he worked at International Data Group and Ziff Davis where he was part of the launch team for The Web Magazine, Yahoo Internet Life, Smart Business and Expedia Travels before starting his own marketing and Publisher’s Representative Firm. He also ran all print and online media sales and marketing for the Society for Human Resource Management before partnering with Forbes and then Fortune to create Special Sections covering a variety of topics. Rob, who started CBE Press in 2014, can be contacted at [email protected]

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