Nebraska Activists Are Already Printing Medical Marijuana Petitions For 2022 After Supreme Court Defeat

Nebraska activists have already started printing petitions to get a medical marijuana measure on the state’s 2022 ballot. While the campaign collected enough signatures to qualify a reform initiative for this year, the state Supreme Court shut it down following a legal challenge. It determined that the measure violated the state’s single-subject rule, much to the disappointment of advocates. The secretary of state’s office had rejected the argument, which was filed by a local sheriff, but after the case went to court, a majority of justices ultimately ruled that the proposal would be removed from the ballot. Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana wasted no time gearing up for a follow-up push and are taking into account what the state’s high court ruled by making their new measure very simple. To avoid getting blocked under the single-subject rule, the language of the new proposal concisely states: “Persons in the State of Nebraska shall have the right to cannabis in all its forms for medical purposes.” There are no regulatory details on the structure of what would be a legal medical cannabis market, though the activists have said they may file separate measures with those details. They first announced last month that they planned to file a new medical cannabis ballot initiative for 2022. “Though we profoundly disagree with the Nebraska Supreme Court’s decision in September to remove our previous initiative from the ballot, we took good notes,” the group said on Thursday. “They argued the previous language violated the single subject rule,…

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