Massachusetts Would Recriminalize Recreational Marijuana Sales Under 2026 Ballot Initiatives Being Reviewed By Attorney General

The Massachusetts attorney general has published dozens of initiatives proposed for the 2026 electoral ballot, including a couple that would reverse the legalization of adult use marijuana in the state.

The Office of the Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell (D) published 47 initiative requests presented by 19 groups before a deadline on Wednesday. Now you will review each request to determine if it can be legally certified.

The two marijuana measures, which would eliminate the commercial market for the use of adults while maintaining the access of patients under the medical cannabis program and continue to allow the legal possession of an ounce of recreational marijuana, are being headed by Caroline Cunningham, who previously escaped against an initiative of the psychedelics legalization that the voters finally rejected last year.

According to new measures, entitled “An act to restore a sensible marijuana policy”, adults 21 years or more could possess up to an ounce of cannabis, of which only five grams could be a product of marijuana concentrate.

The possession of more than one ounce, but less than two ounces, would effectively decriminalize, with offenders subject to a fine of $ 100. Adults could also continue giving cannabis to each other without remuneration.

But the provisions in the Marijuana Law approved by the voters of the State that allow commercial cannabis retailers and access to adult regulated products would be repealed under the proposal.

The right of adults to cultivate cannabis at home would also be repealed.

There are two versions of the initiative. They are largely identical, except that one would establish the power limits in medicinal marijuana, which requires that the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) prohibit the flower of more than 30 percent of THC and concentrates more than 60 percent of THC or that has more than 5 mg of THC per service. There would also be a prohibition of cannabis concentrates that “cannot clearly provide standard portions of 5 mg measures or measures of 5 mg and concentrate packages that exceed 20 measurements measured or measures.

After reviewing all the proposed onesinitiativesTo determine if they are consistent with the constitutional requirements for the placement of the voting, the Office of the Attorney General will certify them and issue summaries completed, eliminating the proponents to begin the signature meeting.

They will have to deliver 74,574 valid signatures of voters registered to the Secretary of State’s Office before December 3, starting a separate verification process to certify the signatures.

It has not yet been seen if cannabis measures make the cut. Voters approved the legalization in the vote in 2016, with the launch of the sales two years later. And the last decade has seen the market evolve and expand. Until last month, Massachusetts officialsreported more than $ 8 billion in sales of adult marijuana.

Regulators are also working to finish the rules forAllow a new type of cannabis consumer hall licenseThey expect to complete in October.

Separately, in May, CCC launched an online platform aimed at Help people find work, workplace training and network opportunities in the legal cannabis industry.

State legislators have also been consideringEstablish stricter restrictions on poisoning products derived from hempand a plan forAllow individual entities to control a greater number of cannabis establishments.

Also in Massachusetts,Legislators who worked in a state budget heads with CCC officialsThey have said that they cannot make critical improvements without more money from the legislature.

Written by Kyle Jaeger For the moment of marijuana | Outstanding image of Gina Coleman/Weed maps

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