Massachusetts Ballot Question · The Cannabis Repeal
A group from Virginia wants to repeal the cannabis law Massachusetts passed in 2016. They're counting on you not showing up. Show up.
You already voted on this
Yes votes on Question 4 · 53.66% · November 2016
Almost 1.8 million people here said yes to legal cannabis for adults. Ten years later, the system they voted for is built, tested, taxed, and working. This November, one ballot question asks you to tear it all down.
Read the bill, not the slogan
This is from the repeal bill itself — H.5002. Not a guess. Not a scare. The text.
Medical cannabis is not affected. And possessing up to an ounce stays a civil penalty, not a crime. We don't need to exaggerate. The facts are enough.
An Act to Restore a Sensible Marijuana Policy
A full repeal of legal cannabis.
Vote No anyway.
Follow the money
The repeal campaign is run by SAM Action. Here's the paper trail, straight from campaign finance filings.
SAM Action is organized under Virginia law. Its funds sit at a bank in Virginia.
About $1.4M went to a paid signature-gathering firm in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Consulting and legal compliance billed from Delaware.
Where you live — and the only place that gets a vote.
"SAM, Inc. … is a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Virginia."SAM's corporate disclosure statement, USCA Case #26-1106, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
The money matters
Nearly $2B in state and local tax revenue since legal sales began in 2018
2025 alone: $1.65 billion in adult-use sales and roughly $308 million to the Commonwealth. Plus sales tax to the General Fund — the MBTA, school buildings — and direct payments to every city and town that hosts a dispensary. A yes vote zeroes all of it out. The demand stays. The testing, the ID checks, and the tax money go.
It's working
Not our opinion. Numbers.
Even the Legislature's own committee reviewed the repeal and recommended no action — citing "substantial concerns regarding the structure, scope, and anticipated impacts."Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions, May 2026
Their actual strategy
Presidential years, about 3.4 million Massachusetts ballots. Midterms, about 2.5 million. Watch what 868,000 missing voters looks like.
Each dot ≈ 13,500 voters. The dark ones skip the midterm.
2026 is a midterm. The repeal isn't betting on arguments. It's betting on your couch.
Practice run
Shall the law legalizing recreational cannabis for adults in Massachusetts — passed by voters in 2016 — be repealed?