Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

• Why marijuana opposition is so effective in liberal Mass.
  (Boston Globe, 18 October 2016)

Voters OK’d decriminalization and medical marijuana, but the Question 4 campaign is proving tougher.

• Cannabis REIT files to be listed on NYSE
  (Marijuana Business Daily: News, 19 October 2016)

A cannabis-focused real estate investment trust has filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. If approved, it would be the first marijuana-related company to list on the Big Board.

• Business owners replace idealists in legal-pot movement
  (Associated Press: AP Top Political News, 19 October 2016)

DENVER (AP) — Business owners are replacing idealists in the pot-legalization movement as the nascent marijuana industry creates a broad base of new donors, many of them entrepreneurs willing to spend to change drug policy.

• American Support Of Legal Marijuana Is At Its Highest Level Ever
  (Forbes: Business, 19 October 2016)

A new Gallup poll shows 60% of Americans now favor legalizing marijuana – the highest level in a 47-year trend.

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