The Courier is correct that nothing happened after 159,454 voters, a 75.49 percent margin, voted in favor of the Dane County medical marijuana advisory referendum passed in Nov. 2010, "Our view: Marijuana referendum a waste of time" on Dec. 11.

The referendum asked state lawmakers to pass a state medical cannabis law. It outpolled every other candidate or referendum in almost every ward in Dane County. A similar referendum in the City of River Falls, received 68 percent of the vote.

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