Ballot Initiatives

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threw out the state’s medical cannabis initiative that was approved by 71% of voters last year due to the state’s outdated ballot initiative process.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

A Nebraska state senator has proposed a measure that would let voters decide whether or not to legalize cannabis via a constitutional amendment in 2022.

Nebraska State Sen. Anna Wishart says she is crafting adult-use legalization language that will be added to a medical cannabis legalization initiative planned for 2022.

Anti-cannabis activists in Montana have filed a post-election lawsuit against the state’s successful adult-use cannabis legalization ballot measure, claiming its allocation of new funding violates the state constitution.

Across the U.S. today, voters from Montana to New Jersey will consider a series of ballot initiatives that could represent yet another dramatic shift for the country away from our archaic cannabis and drug policies.

Cannabis advocates in Nebraska are regrouping for 2022 after their medical cannabis initiative was struck down in September by the state Supreme Court.

Both South Dakota’s medical cannabis and adult-use cannabis legalization voter initiatives are currently polling over 50% among likely voters.

Likely voters in New Jersey indicated they support the state’s cannabis legalization initiative by a two-to-one margin, according to a recent poll.