Another ballot measure to regulate the cannabis industry was also certified.
The Nebraska Secretary of State on Friday officially confirmed that two proposed ballot measures to legalize medical marijuana and establish a cannabis industry in the state have qualified for the November election.
Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana easily cleared the 86,000-signature threshold it had needed to submit to the state in support of its two proposed amendments – one to legalize medical use of cannabis and another to regulate a marijuana industry – onto the ballot, the Associated Press reported. The campaign last month submitted more than 114,000 signatures to the secretary of state, of which more than 89,000 had been verified for each of the two measures.
“After years of hard work, we are beyond excited that Nebraskans will finally have the opportunity to have their voices heard on this issue in November,” Crista Eggers, the initiative campaign manager, told the AP. “Today we celebrate that very soon, patients in this state will have access to medical cannabis treatment.”
This is the campaign’s third attempt, with the first in 2020 losing to a legal challenge and a second in 2022 falling short of the necessary number of signatures. And the campaign still will have political opposition to contend with, including Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner, who spearheaded the lawsuit four years ago that defeated the measure then, according to the AP.
Nebraska now joins Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota in the ranks of states with cannabis legalization measures to decide upon in the upcoming election, and a measure to expand medical marijuana access in Arkansas has yet to be certified for the ballot.
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