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Idaho Legislative Council Approves Ballot Language to Limit Legalization Powers to Lawmakers

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Idaho Legislative Council Approves Ballot Language to Limit Legalization Powers to Lawmakers

The Idaho Legislature last week approved language for a ballot measure seeking to amend the state constitution so that only the legislature has the authority to legalize cannabis and other psychoactive or narcotic substances, Idaho Capital Sun reports.

The adopted voting language includes statements for and against the proposal.

Language supporting the proposal states:

“Drugs destroy lives, tear apart families and threaten the safety of our communities. Decisions to legalize marijuana, narcotics and other psychoactive substances are too important to be taken lightly. The proposed amendment would ensure that any proposal to legalize these dangerous substances would go through the legislative process. Public hearings would be held on the proposal and people could be harmed by the law. Lawmakers would consider carefully each proposal and would be publicly accountable for their votes.

Language opposing the proposal reads:

“The Idaho Constitution states that all political power belongs to the people. But the proposed amendment would take that power away from the people by taking away their ability to pass drug legalization laws themselves through ballot initiatives. The people are just as capable of making good and prudent decisions about drug policy as the legislators. The amendment is also unnecessary because if the people had the power to legislate or ever pass the law for drugs to change or abolish it.”

The ballot measure could appear on the same ballots as a question directed by citizen advocates to legalize medical cannabis. Idaho Natural Medicine Alliance last month submitted petition signatures to county clerks and indicated he had collected more than 100,000 signatures to place the issue on the November general ballot.

It’s unclear what would happen if voters pass both initiatives, voting to both legalize medical cannabis and put legalization reforms solely in the hands of the Legislature.

TG joined Ganjapreneur in 2014 as a news writer and began hosting the Ganjapreneur podcast in 2016. He is based in upstate New York, where he also teaches media at a local university.

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Massachusetts High Court Allows Ballot Measure to End Adult-Use Cannabis Sales to Proceed

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Massachusetts High Court Allows Ballot Measure to End Adult-Use Cannabis Sales to Proceed

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled last week that the ballot question seeking to overturn the Commonwealth’s 2016 adult cannabis law will be sent to voters. NBC Boston reports. The proposal was opposed by some participants in the state’s social equity program, who argued that Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s summary of the initiative left out key details and that she should not have certified the measure because it contains unrelated policy sections.

Justice Bessie Dewar, writing for the court, rejected the plaintiff’s arguments and ruled that Campbell “did not err in certifying the petition on any of the grounds asserted and that her summary of the petition is fair.”

“The Attorney General argues that the various parts of the petition all relate to the common goal of restricting the use of recreational marijuana through a new, integrated scheme to regulate marijuana. We agree and are not persuaded by plaintiffs’ arguments to the contrary.” – Dewar, on the decision, via NBC Boston

of final summary endorsed by Campbell says:

“The proposed law would change the type and amount of marijuana that can be legally possessed in Massachusetts by repealing laws that legalize, regulate, and tax the retail sale of marijuana for adult recreational use in Massachusetts. The proposed law would also allow persons 21 and older to possess 1 ounce or less of marijuana and no more than 5 grams of marijuana to transfer another gift Person 21 or older 1 ounce or less marijuana, including no more than 5 grams in concentrate form. The proposed law would also impose a $100 civil fine and forfeiture of marijuana for possession of between 1 and 2 grams of marijuana for youths who are 21. less marijuana a civil offense subject to a $100 fine, forfeiture of the marijuana, completion of a drug awareness program, and community service to their parents or legal guardian for the offense and fines The proposed law would allow adult recreational marijuana businesses to currently apply on an expedited medical basis to become their own expedited license The proposed law would retain the Cannabis Control Commission to regulate only the medical marijuana market.

According to a Bay State poll from the University of New Hampshire released in February, a majority – 63% – of Massachusetts residents oppose efforts to end adult sales in the state. The poll found that 20% supported the measure.

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Massachusetts Cannabis Operators Sue to Block Adult-Use Repeal Effort

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Massachusetts Cannabis Operators Sue to Block Adult-Use Repeal Effort

Four Massachusetts cannabis operators have filed a legal challenge against the ballot initiative that seeks to repeal the state’s adult-use market this November. Bloomberg Law reports.

of suitfiled Wednesday in the Supreme Judicial Court, claims the ballot measure violates the state constitution by combining too many issues into a single ballot question and because of its “failure to present a unified statement of public policy to voters.”

The ballot measure, titled “An Act to Restore Sensible Marijuana Policy,” was approved for this year’s ballot in January. despite the allegations that the reform campaign used deceptive signature-gathering practices, including bait-and-switch tactics and signers lying about the purpose of the petition.

The suit names Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Secretary of State William Galvin as defendants for their roles in allowing the petition to move forward. The complaint asks “that this Court vacate the Attorney General’s certification of the Petition and order the Secretary of the Commonwealth to place the Petition on the ballot for the 2026 general election.”

If approved by voters, the ballot initiative would repeal adult-use cannabis sales and the state’s home grow provisions. Instead, the initiative contains language to decriminalize possession of up to two ounces of cannabis.

or survey found last month that only 20% of Massachusetts residents said they would support the repeal of the state-owned adult-use industry.

Based in Portland, Oregon, Graham is the editor-in-chief of Ganjapreneur. He has been writing about the legalization landscape since 2012 and has contributed to Ganjapreneur since our official launch in…

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Ballot Initiative in Massachusetts Seeks to Repeal Adult-Use Cannabis Law 

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Ballot Initiative in Massachusetts Seeks to Repeal Adult-Use Cannabis Law 

A voting initiative proposed in Massachusetts seeks to abolish cannabis law on the use of state adults approved by voters in 2016. Proposal by Caroline Cunningham comes in the form of two proposed laws, both entitled “An act to restore a sensitive marijuana policy”, and will finish the cannabis sales “and will end.” right from adults to cultivate cannabis at home.

Proposals are signed by 14 other voters of Massachusetts. Both laws will decriminalize the possession of more than one Once, but less than two ounces, and a violation of the law would be a civil offense with a $ 100 fine. Adults would still be able to donate cannabis to each other.

Medical cannabis will also remain legal under proposals but ”Version a“It would remove the flower with a concentration of thc higher than 30%, focuses on the power greater than 60%, and Edibles with more than 5 milligrams of thc for service.”Version b“Will the Cannabis Control Commission and the State Health Department obtain” ensuring that the production and distribution of medical use is effectively regulated “but does not describe the limits of Prodyct power.

To obtain a vote issue in Massachusetts, the Office of the Prosecutor General must first review whether the petitions meet some constitutional requirements to appear with the Secretary of Commonwealth, who will notify whether it has been approved for certification on September 3. If the registered initiative to register, registered initiatives, registrars, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered, registered. Commonwealth by December 3. Once the signatures are verified, the proposal is sent to the state legislature in January for its approval. If lawmakers do not approve the proposal, supporters then must collect an additional signatures from the voters registered until July 1, 2026, to establish the November 2026 voting initiative.

TG joined Ganjapreur in 2014 as a news writer and began waiting for Podcast Ganjapreurur in 2016. He is located at the Upsstate New York, where he also teaches media studies at a local university.

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