If you’re gay and pregnant and live in Maine, you can get an abortion but you can’t get married.  At least you can treat your depression about that kind of message by lighting up a joint:

In a landmark vote, Maine voters today approved Question 5, making the state the third in the country to license nonprofit organizations to provide medical marijuana to qualified patients and the first ever to do so by a vote of the people…. Under the measure, the state will license nonprofit organizations to provide medical marijuana to qualified patients and set rules for their operation. While 13 states permit medical use of marijuana, only Rhode Island and New Mexico have similar dispensary provisions, both of which were adopted by the states’ legislatures. Maine’s original medical marijuana law was passed in 1999.  — Salem-News.com

They voted down a later-term abortion ban:

Maine voters rejected a top-of-the-ballot proposal Tuesday that its advocates said would ban certain late term abortions.  With 467 of 664 precincts reporting, or 70%, the vote in favor of enacting the ban was 126,116, or 45%, while the vote against the ban was 154,580, or 55%.  — USA Today

Then they slammed the door on gay rights:

Voters rejected a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed. The repeal comes just six months after the measure was passed by the Maine legislature and signed by the Democratic Gov. John Baldacci.  Maine would have been the sixth state in the country to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry, but instead becomes the 31st state to oppose the unions in a popular vote. With 87 percent of precincts reporting as of 2 a.m. today, gay marriage opponents claimed 53 percent of the vote to supporters’ 47 percent.– ABCNews.com

What to make of all this, I can’t tell you.  Perhaps a one-handed clap?

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