Hailey is a city of about 6,200 people (2000 census), the county seat of Blaine County. The city voted on three initiatives - to legalize the use of industrial hemp, to legalize medical use of marijuana and to make law enforcement of marijuana laws the lowest priority for the Hailey police department. The initiatives were pass on two occasions - November 2007 and May 2008.
Three Hailey officials - the mayor, a councilman and the police chief brought a lawsuit which seeks to have the three initiatives declared constitutionally illegal. The story is given coverage by the Idaho Mountain Express.
Wed 14 Jan 2009