Voters in Five States to Decide on Marijuana Legalization Measures This November

[jct74]

Voters in Five States, Dozens of Cities to Decide on Marijuana Legalization Measures This November

BY NORML
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Voters in five states — Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota — will decide this Election Day on statewide ballot measures to legalize the use of marijuana by adults.

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Several of this year’s ballot initiatives faced protracted litigation by opponents, who sought to have the measures removed from the ballot over perceived technicalities. Most of those efforts were unsuccessful; however, one such effort succeeded in postponing voters’ opportunity to decide a similar ballot question in Oklahoma.

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In addition to these statewide efforts, voters in dozens of cities will be deciding on municipal ballot questions this fall. For instance, voters in five Texas cities — Denton, Elgin, Harker Heights, Killeen, and San Marcos — will decide on measures seeking to amend local laws curtailing police officers’ authority to “issue citations or make arrests for Class A or Class B misdemeanor possession of marijuana offenses” absent a defendant’s alleged involvement in a “felony level narcotics” case. Voters in several Ohio cities will also decide on municipal measures depenalizing activities involving marijuana possession.

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In Rhode Island, voters in 31 towns will decide on measures determining whether or not to allow licensed cannabis retailers in their localities. Voters in cities in several other states, including Colorado, Michigan, and Montana, will also decide on similar local ballot measures.

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https://norml.org/blog/2022/09/28/v...arijuana-legalization-measures-this-november/

 

[jct74]

Also, Colorado will be voting on a psychedelics legalization measure.

Colorado Voters Will Soon Decide Whether To Decriminalize 5 Natural Psychedelics
The ballot initiative also would authorize state-licensed "healing centers" where adults could obtain psychedelics for supervised use.

JACOB SULLUM
10.27.2022

Three years ago, Denver voters passed a groundbreaking ballot initiative that made adult possession of psilocybin the city's lowest law enforcement priority and prohibited the use of public money to pursue such cases. Next month, voters statewide will consider a psychedelic measure that goes much further—further even than the initiative that Oregonians approved in 2020, which will allow adults 21 or older to use psilocybin in state-licensed "service centers" under the supervision of "facilitators." If successful, the Colorado initiative would represent the broadest liberalization of psychedelic policy ever approved in the United States.

Colorado's Proposition 122 would decriminalize noncommercial activities related to the use of "natural medicine" by adults 21 or older. It defines "natural medicine" to include psilocybin, psilocyn (another psychoactive component of "magic mushrooms"), dimethyltryptamine (DMT, the active ingredient in ayahuasca), ibogaine (a psychedelic derived from the root bark of the iboga tree), and mescaline (the active ingredient in peyote).

The covered activities, which would not be subject to criminal or civil penalties, include "growing, cultivating, or processing plants or fungi capable of producing natural medicine for personal use." Also protected: possessing, storing, using, transporting, or obtaining the listed psychedelics or distributing them to adults 21 or older "without remuneration."

All of the psychedelics covered by Proposition 122 are currently classified as Schedule I controlled substances under state law. Possession of 4 grams or less for personal use is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail, while possession of larger amounts is a felony, as is manufacture or distribution. Manufacturing or distributing 14 grams or less, for example, is a Level 3 drug felony, punishable by a fine of $2,000 to $500,000 and two to four years in prison.

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read more:
https://reason.com/2022/10/27/color...ther-to-decriminalize-5-natural-psychedelics/

 

[sparebulb]

If I were a betting man, I would predict that the marijuana initiative will fail in Missouri.

Where I live, Schmitt signs are probably 90% co-located with "No on 3" signs.

Schmitt is going to blow Valentine away and Missouri has really developed a taste for neocons and "law and order".

The good news is that years ago, concealed carry failed in a ballot initiative and then passed a couple of years later.

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

Total reversal of tax consequence. Pot illegal=send to jail and pay for incarceration. Pot legal=all kinds of taxes related to the sale.

 

[pcosmar]

Total reversal of tax consequence. Pot illegal=send to jail and pay for incarceration. Pot legal=all kinds of taxes related to the sale.

That has been the tipping point in every state.

And has been a net profit to every state that has legal Cannabis..

Pay the Bribe,,and get it to Market.. put people to work..(it's a growing industry)

 

[Anti Globalist]

Gonna be interesting to see which states vote for it and which states will not.

 

[tebowlives]

That has been the tipping point in every state.

And has been a net profit to every state that has legal Cannabis..

Pay the Bribe,,and get it to Market.. put people to work..(it's a growing industry)

I see what you did there.

 

[pcosmar]

If I were a betting man, I would predict that the marijuana initiative will fail in Missouri.

Where I live, Schmitt signs are probably 90% co-located with "No on 3" signs.

Schmitt is going to blow Valentine away and Missouri has really developed a taste for neocons and "law and order".

The good news is that years ago, concealed carry failed in a ballot initiative and then passed a couple of years later.

My career,back in the day,,was transporting to Missouri..before the girl and the Banks.

There are Freedom folks in Missouri.

 

[sparebulb]

My career,back in the day,,was transporting to Missouri..before the girl and the Banks.

There are Freedom folks in Missouri.

We will find out very soon.

The powers that be have done an excellent job at positioning marihuana legalization along with anti law enforcement such as defunding the po-po, antifa, and blm.

 

[familydog]

I'm all for more and more legal substances that keep the populace lazy and complacent.

 

[pcosmar]

I'm all for more and more legal substances that keep the populace lazy and complacent.

The US cannabis industry now supports 428,059 jobs
https://www.leafly.com/news/industry/cannabis-jobs-report

 

[familydog]

The US cannabis industry now supports 428,059 jobs
https://www.leafly.com/news/industry/cannabis-jobs-report

Vice is a lucrative industry.

Big Weed and Big Pharma will soon be battling over who can keep the most Americans in a mind-numbing stupor.

 

[Ender]

Marijuana should never have been made illegal in the first place.

 

[sparebulb]

The US cannabis industry now supports 428,059 jobs
https://www.leafly.com/news/industry/cannabis-jobs-report

I'll bet that law enforcement/agency job growth blows that away.

Which industry will government support?

I strongly suspect that government supports government.

 

[pcosmar]

I'll bet that law enforcement/agency job growth blows that away.

Which industry will government support?

I strongly suspect that government supports government.

I have no Problem with Proper Law Enforcement,, and Legalization goes toward that..

Would rather see it reclassified as a Health Supplement. It never was a narcotic.

 

[pcosmar]

Vice is a lucrative industry.

Big Weed and Big Pharma will soon be battling over who can keep the most Americans in a mind-numbing stupor.

LOL..
That is some real Reefer Madness right there.

The Plant is a Gift from God.

 

[jct74]

I'm all for more and more legal substances that keep the populace lazy and complacent.

True for only a small percentage of users I would say, as with alcohol. That is mostly a myth based on government propaganda from decades ago.

 

[familydog]

LOL..
That is some real Reefer Madness right there.

The Plant is a Gift from God.

Reefer madness? *yawn*

 

[dannno]

Vice is a lucrative industry.

Big Weed and Big Pharma will soon be battling over who can keep the most Americans in a mind-numbing stupor.

Cannabis isn't "mind-numbing", it activates the brain and helps repair brain cells. I think you are thinking of alcohol.

It can be physically relaxing, maybe you are confusing mind-numbing with relaxing. Although plenty of top athletes find that it helps with physical activities as well.

The Diaz brothers, for example, smoke a ton of herb before they go out and train for triathlons.

 

[familydog]

True for only a small percentage of users I would say, as with alcohol. That is mostly a myth based on government propaganda from decades ago.

Taxes on weed constitute a billion dollar industry despite only being legal in only a dozen states. It's not that far fetched that the government will start propagandizing the use of it.