Days after the Texas House of Representatives passed a marijuana decriminalization bill that is now pending in the Senate, voters in two cities in the state will head to the polls on Saturday to decide on two related local ballot measures.
San Antonio voters will consider a broad justice-reform initiative that includes provisions to decriminalize cannabis, and Harker Heights residents will have the chance to overturn their local government’s repeal of an earlier decriminalization measure they passed.
The San Antonio proposal asks voters if they support blocking police from making arrests or issuing citations for low-level marijuana possession, preventing the enforcement of abortion restriction laws, banning no-knock warrants and making other reforms.
Advocates with Ground Game Texas, the organization that spearheaded the ballot initiative, turned in more than 37,000 signatures to qualify it in January.
The text of the measure says that “it is the policy of the City of San Antonio to use its available resources and authority to accomplish three goals of paramount importance: first, to reduce the City’s contribution to mass incarceration; second, to mitigate racially discriminatory law enforcement practices; and third, to save scarce public resources for greater public needs.”
The cannabis section of the initiative stipulates that
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