DORCHESTER — Faith leaders teamed with Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday to make a final appeal to voters to reject legal marijuana, painting the ballot campaign as one about commercialization more than legalization and portraying pot as a "gateway drug" to future substance abuse.
Baker called the ballot proposal a "mess" requiring the "ultimate leap of faith" that policy leaders will be able to fix the flaws in the question after giving the industry a head start. And Walsh warned that 48 pot shops would open in Boston neighborhoods within the first year under the proposed law, with little ability for the city to control store locations.
