Ballot Initiatives

Nebraska medical cannabis advocates have turned in two petitions exceeding the 87,000-signature threshold for putting medical cannabis reforms on the ballot.

Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana filed a lawsuit against the state’s ballot initiative process which requires signatures from 5% of registered voters in 38 counties, a rule that gives disproportionate power to rural voters.

Two Arkansas advocacy groups are looking to put adult-use cannabis legalization questions on voter ballots this November.

Cannabis advocacy group Legal Missouri collected and submitted twice the number of signatures needed to add an adult-use legalization question to ballots this November.

Cannabis advocacy group South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws has submitted signatures to add a cannabis legalization question to voter ballots for the second time in the state.

The advocacy group Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is suing GOP leadership in Ohio over attempts to delay the state’s adult-use cannabis legalization vote until 2023.

South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws launched a signature-gathering campaign to place another cannabis legalization constitutional amendment before voters later this year.

Italy’s Constitutional Court threw out a voter initiative to allow home cannabis cultivation and ease penalties for other cannabis-related offenses.

Three campaigns to put a cannabis legalization question on Florida ballots have failed, meaning the state’s last path forward on the issue this year is its politically polarized Legislature.

Following advocates’ successful push for the state’s initiated statute process, Ohio lawmakers now have four months to consider a cannabis legalization bill or the campaign could push the issue to a vote on state ballots.

Signatures for a ballot initiative to decriminalize cannabis and ban no-knock raids have been submitted to the city of Austin, Texas.

Kentucky state Rep. Nima Kulkarni (D) pre-filed bills to decriminalize cannabis possession and to allow ballot questions discussing legalization to be put to voters.

Ohio cannabis activists anticipate they will gather enough signatures by November’s end to force the legislature to either pass an adult-use cannabis bill or let the issue appear on the 2022 ballot.

NORML’s Arkansas chapter has filed a ballot initiative to legalize adult-use cannabis in Arkansas. It is the second legalization bid aiming for 2022 after Arkansas True Grass filed its own initiative earlier this year.

Oklahoma cannabis advocates have filed ballot initiatives aiming to legalize adult-use cannabis and replace the state’s medical cannabis oversight agency in 2022.

Florida advocates are launching a campaign to legalize cannabis cultivation and use for adults. They need to submit 891,589 valid petition signatures by February 1 to get the question on 2022 ballots.

California’s attorney general last week approved language for an upcoming psychedelic decriminalization ballot initiative.

The Nebraska Cannabis Association, launched last week, is the state’s first organization dedicated to lobbying for cannabis policy, advising on regulations, and supporting cannabis industry entrepreneurs.

Three New Hampshire legislators have filed separate proposals to put adult-use cannabis constitutional amendment questions on the 2022 ballot.

Ohio cannabis advocates are set to start gathering signatures after the Ohio Ballot Board formally approved a cannabis legalization ballot initiative.

Advocates in Missouri have filed a ballot initiative to legalize cannabis for adults in the state. They must now collect 175,000 signatures to secure the issue on next year’s midterm ballots.

Medical cannabis advocates with Kind Idaho are collecting signatures to put the Idaho Medical Marijuana Act on state ballots for the 2022 election.

Wyoming Attorney General Bridget Hill (R) has approved the language of two longshot cannabis ballot initiatives—one to legalize medical cannabis and another related to decriminalizing the plant.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has approved the summary language of a petition to legalize adult-use cannabis in the state, two weeks after determining that previous language wasn’t “fair and truthful.”