North Dakota Could Vote on Legalizing Marijuana in November
BISMARK, ND Proponents of a statewide ballot initiative to legalize the adult use of marijuana in North Dakota on Mondayturned innearly 19,000 signatures to the Secretary of States office in an effort to place the measure before voters this November.
State officials must certify 13,452 of those signatures in order to qualify the measure for the 2018 electoral ballot.
The voter-initiatedmeasure, organized by the grass-roots groupLegalize North Dakota, legalizes the possession, use, and sale of cannabis, as well as the possession of marijuana paraphernalia, by those over the age of 21 and alsoexpungespast marijuana convictions.
In 2016,nearly two-thirdsof state voters approved a ballot measure regulating medical cannabis access. However, state officials have yet to make the program operational with regulators nowaimingto have licensed dispensaries up and running by June 2019. Activists haveacknowledgedthat regulators failure to swiftly implement the 2016 measure was the impetus for the 2018 campaign.
State officials are expected to either verify or reject ...
