Ten lawmakers endorse commercial marijuana ballot question

The campaign to legalize adult marijuana use in Massachusetts announced endorsements Thursday from 10 state lawmakers, who said a ballot question's passage in the fall would generate new tax revenues and end marijuana prohibition laws that they called a failure. "It's time we got this over with. The prohibition approach to the control of marijuana use just has not worked," Sen. Will Brownsberger of Belmont, co-chair of the Legislature's Judiciary Committee, said in a statement released by the Y

The campaign to legalize adult marijuana use in Massachusetts announced endorsements Thursday from 10 state lawmakers, who said a ballot question's passage in the fall would generate new tax revenues and end marijuana prohibition laws that they called a failure. "It's time we got this over with. The prohibition approach to the control of marijuana use just has not worked," Sen. Will Brownsberger of Belmont, co-chair of the Legislature's Judiciary Committee, said in a statement released by the Y…