Medical cannabis campaign gathered enough signatures for the November ballot!

On August 30, 2024, the Nebraska Secretary of State said Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana had collected enough signatures to place two companion medical cannabis measures on the November 5 ballot. 

It has been a heartbreakingly long journey to the ballot. 

In 2020, advocates collected enough signatures to put a constitutional medical cannabis initiative on the ballot. Just three months before Election Day, the state Supreme Court issued a deeply flawed court ruling that prevented voters from deciding the issue. In 2022, families tried again. Sadly, the 2022 effort, which was largely volunteer, came just a few thousand signatures away from meeting the required threshold to qualify. Throughout, the legislature has failed to enact a compassionate medical cannabis law.

But at long last, medical cannabis is expected to appear on the November 2024 ballot. Due to the outrageously restrictive single-subject ruling, there are two separate, very simple companion measures:

• The first measure protects patients with serious health conditions and their caregivers from arrest for the use of medical cannabis as recommended by a healthcare provider. 

• The second measure establishes a Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission to regulate private businesses that provide medical cannabis to qualified patients.

You can join and support the effort by visiting NebraskaMarijuana.org.

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