LOCAL RESIDENTS FIRST TO SIGN PETITIONS TO PUT MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION ON STATE BALLOT.

A group hoping to let Michigan voters decide whether to legalize home-grown marijuana for personal use kicked off its petition drive Saturday night with a concert and rally in Kalamazoo.

A few hundred people turned out at the State Theatre in support of the Personal Responsibly Amendment - a proposed addition to the Michigan Constitution that would allow people to grow pot for personal use at home.  The proposed amendment forbids growing the plants where they are visible or accessible to children.

The group supporting the amendment is organizing a grass-roots campaign to collect the 302,000 signatures necessary to put the amendment to a vote in November.

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