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This week's editorial begins with six children. They went to the hospital this spring after getting into cannabis edibles at a Detroit elementary school, and they are fine, and the part that stays with me is the part that will not make the mailer: they bought nothing, nobody sold to them, and the product came from a house. By November some version of that story will be in Massachusetts mailboxes, because the campaign to repeal legalization has figured out something the industry has not.
The old argument against legal cannabis was a moral one, and it lost almost everywhere it was tested. The new one does not lead with sin. It leads with the emergency department, with lab fraud, with poison-control calls, with untested product on a gas-station shelf. Most of it is true. That is what makes it work, and that is what the industry has no muscle memory for fighting, because the frame the prohibition movement is now using is the evidence-based frame reformers spent a decade building. It works just as well pointed the other way.
We take the strongest version of that case and grant nearly all of it, then show what actually follows. We walk through the poison-control numbers and why a count inflated by the warning label working and by a stigma eroding is not the clean measure of harm the campaign needs it to be. We engage the two serious arguments under the noise, the values choice that quietly exempts alcohol and the capture argument that says better regulation is never really on the ballot, and we answer both without dodging. We follow the money behind the signature drive, $1.55 million dollars from a single source that will not say who funds it, set against an industry whose every license and lab result is public. And we end where the campaign does not want the voter to end, on what repeal actually does, which is not return Massachusetts to a time before cannabis but to a time before the rules.
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