It’s shaping up to be a busy November election for local marijuana reform in Texas, with activists in yet another city announcing that officials have certified signatures to place a decriminalization initiative on the ballot in Lockhart.
This marks the second city where signatures have been verified this month alone to secure ballot placement for such a marijuana reform proposal, coming about a week after it was confirmed that Dallas voters will get the chance to decide on cannabis decriminalization.
Activists in Bastrop also recently announced that they’ve turned in what they believe to be enough signatures to put a marijuana decriminalization initiative on that city’s local November ballot.
Ground Game Texas, which has spearheaded a largely successful local decriminalization push in the state over recent years, partnered with the advocacy group Mano Amiga on the Lockhart measure, turning in more than double the required signatures in May.
The organization announced on Monday that the city secretary official certified the signatures last week.
“Lockhart marks the second collaboration between Mano Amiga and Ground Game Texas—in 2022, we won an overwhelming victory in San Marcos’s November election,” Catina Voellinger, executive director of Ground Game Texas, said in a press release. “It’s
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