STAT+: Mass. marijuana consumers, workers high on victory after repeal of recreational weed sales fails in a rout

Puff, puff, didn’t pass.

It was a night of relieved exhaling for weed consumers and industry workers across Massachusetts, as voters decisively shot down Question 8, a ballot initiative that would have dismantled the state’s recreational cannabis industry.

The rest of the country was engulfed in a blue wave, but for those who cared about this race, it was more of a green one: Around 76% of voters cast their ballot against the repeal, while about 24% voted in favor, as of Wednesday morning, with close to 90% of votes counted.

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