Citizen panel to explore marijuana legalization with help from experts

STATE HOUSE — Seven experts with experience in marijuana policy, including legal, medical and business types, will help a group of 20 Massachusetts voters next week dive headfirst into the debate over the marijuana legalization ballot question in order to give fellow voters easy to understand information on the initiative. The experts, including two officials who work directly with Colorado's legal marijuana industry, will be questioned by the 20-voter panel of the Citizens' Initiative Review (

STATE HOUSE — Seven experts with experience in marijuana policy, including legal, medical and business types, will help a group of 20 Massachusetts voters next week dive headfirst into the debate over the marijuana legalization ballot question in order to give fellow voters easy to understand information on the initiative. The experts, including two officials who work directly with Colorado's legal marijuana industry, will be questioned by the 20-voter panel of the Citizens' Initiative Review (…