Ballot Initiatives

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.”

The Wyoming Libertarian Party and the cannabis advocacy organization Together for Responsible Use and Cannabis Education have begun the process of getting medical cannabis legalization on 2022 ballots.

Cannabis advocates in Nebraska are planning two new initiatives to legalize medical cannabis in the latest attempt to pass cannabis reforms in the state.

Maryland voters will likely get a chance to pass cannabis legalization via a voter referendum in 2022, according to Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D).

Ohio cannabis advocates have submitted summary language for a cannabis legalization ballot initiative to the state attorney general’s office.

Advocates in Arkansas are gathering signatures to put an adult-use legalization question to voters during the 2022 midterm elections.

Two competing advocacy groups in Missouri are seeking to put an adult-use question to voters in the 2022 election.

A Tennessee proposal seeks to add three non-binding questions related to cannabis reforms on the 2022 state ballot.

The group behind South Dakota’s initiative to legalize cannabis is gearing up for another adult-use proposal while waiting for the Supreme Court to decide whether the state’s successful 2020 bid was constitutional.

The initiative would raise the state’s cannabis excise tax to fill the pandemic-related education funding gap.

Mississippi’s Supreme Court threw out the state’s medical cannabis initiative that was approved by 71% of voters last year due to the state’s outdated ballot initiative process.

Florida’s conservative Supreme Court blocked the state’s cannabis legalization ballot initiative, claiming the initiative fails to properly inform voters that cannabis is federally illegal and would remain so even if the state legalizes it.

North Dakota is considering legislation that would put the cannabis legalization question to state voters via a ballot initiative next year.