Ballot Initiatives

Voters in Oklahoma opted out of a cannabis legalization ballot initiative during yesterday’s special election with a resounding 63% of voters coming out against the reforms.

Texas lawmakers may consider a proposal to let municipalities establish their own local cannabis legalization laws.

Florida activists have collected just under 150,000 valid signatures so far in their bid to put an adult-use cannabis legalization question before voters next year.

Activists in Idaho have launched a new campaign to put a medical cannabis legalization question on the state’s 2024 ballot.

The mayor of St. Louis, Missouri has come out in opposition to adult-use cannabis legalization in the state, indicating that the amendment will create a “permanent exclusion” of minorities from the state’s cannabis industry.

Cannabis advocates in South Dakota have opened an inquiry into whether state officials spoke in an official capacity to campaign against medical cannabis legalization, which is a violation of state law.

A recent poll found that Arkansas voters may have cooled on the state’s upcoming cannabis legalization initiative as support for the initiative has dropped to 50.5%, about eight points lower than last month’s polling.

The Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys is asking voters to reject the cannabis legalization amendment appearing on November ballots.

The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled last week to allow the state’s adult-use cannabis legalization question to appear on November ballots.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court voted unanimously to delay the state’s upcoming cannabis legalization ballot initiative.

A recent poll found that 59% of Maryland voters are planning to vote yes on the state’s upcoming cannabis legalization question.

A Missouri judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block a cannabis legalization question from appearing on the state’s November ballots.

Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston declared the state’s cannabis legalization ballot measure to be insufficient due to the State Board of Election Commissioners’ decision to not certify the initiative’s popular name and ballot title.

The Smart and Safe Florida cannabis advocacy group has hired a signature gathering firm for more than $1 million in its effort to put a cannabis legalization constitutional amendment on the state’s 2024 election ballots.

A Missouri Democratic representative formed a coalition this week opposing the state’s cannabis legalization ballot measure over its lack of social equity measures, its proposed fines for smoking cannabis in public, and issues with its automatic expungement provisions.

The campaigns to legalize medical cannabis in Nebraska weren’t able to collect enough signatures to qualify for November election ballots, but state Sen. Jen Day (D) said she would introduce legalization legislation in the next session.

Oklahoma’s adult-use cannabis legalization question may be blocked from November ballots due to a delay in signature counting by a new vendor contracted by the state.

As part of an ongoing legal battle after Arkansas’ Board of Election Commissioners blocked a popular cannabis legalization initiative from November ballots, the state Supreme Court will conditionally allow the adult-use question to move forward.

Missouri’s cannabis legalization initiative has been cleared for November ballots.

Advocates in Florida launched a new campaign this week to legalize adult-use cannabis in the Sunshine State. The effort is backed by Trulieve, the state’s largest medical cannabis company.

Arkansas’ election officials rejected the state’s cannabis legalization initiative ballot name and title, effectively blocking it from November ballots; advocates behind the proposal are planning to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court.

Arkansas’ secretary of state said activists with Responsible Growth Arkansas have gathered sufficient signatures to put a cannabis legalization initiative on the upcoming November ballot.

Voters in Killeen, Texas will decide this November whether to decriminalize cannabis possession within city limits.

Voters in Denton, Texas will consider a ballot initiative during the midterm elections that, if passed, would decriminalize low-level cannabis possession by blocking local police from enforcing misdemeanor cannabis crimes.