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HENSLEY v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

Nos. SJC-12106, SJC-12117.

474 Mass. 651 (2016)

JOSEPHINE HENSLEY & others v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another. MATTHEW JOHN ALLEN & others v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 6, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Scheft for Josephine Hensley & others.

Robert E. Toone, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Thomas R. Kiley for Matthew John Allen & others.

David G. Evans, of New Jersey, for Massachusetts Hospital Association & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.

We have before us two cases involving an initiative petition that, if approved by the voters in the November, 2016, election, would legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana and products that contain marijuana concentrate. The plaintiffs in the first case (Hensley case) claim that the Attorney General erred in certifying the petition for...

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