Ballot Initiatives

It’s official. Massachusetts’ Question 8 — the first-ever attempt to recriminalize adult-use sales and home grow in a legal state — is on the ballot. It is important to Vote No on 8!

In a brutal missed opportunity to bring a medical program to the Gem State, the 2026 ballot will only have a prohibitionist measure left when it comes to drug policy. During the 2025 legislative session, Idaho lawmakers passed a measure, HJR 4, for the 2026 ballot. The House overwhelmingly passed the amendment (58-10), and the Senate passed it 29-6.

HJR 4 is a prohibitionist amendment that, if passed, would impede any freedom for Idaho residents to put medical or adult-use cannabis on the ballot in the future. It is incredibly concerning that lawmakers believe only they can hold the key to knowing what is best for Idahoans. Especially when veterans, cancer patients, folks with epilepsy, among others, have pleaded for a medical cannabis program for years with no movement from the legislature. 

Needless to say, with HJR 4 on the ballot, it is even more troubling that Idahoans will not have the chance to legalize medical cannabis this election year.