Activists in Bastrop, Texas have turned in what they believe to be enough signatures to put a marijuana decriminalization initiative on the local November ballot.
Ground Game Texas, which supported the campaign that’s being led by a Democratic candidate for the state House of Representatives, announced on Monday that advocates submitted more than 600 signatures for ballot placement. They need approximately 400 to be validated in order to qualify.
Desiree Venable, the Democratic candidate running against incumbent Rep. Stan Gerdes (R), said in a press release that the cannabis reform petition “is an example of true democracy and the power we have as community members to implement legislation that directly affects our wants and needs.”
“The criminalization of marijuana strips us of our individual freedoms and diminishes our opportunities to start a career or access higher education,” she said. “The decriminalization of marijuana is a necessary step toward the broader criminal justice reform we so desperately need.”
Ground Game Texas Executive Director Catina Voellinger added that the “Bastrop Freedom Act will advance racial justice and prevent the waste of scarce public resources.”
This comes about two weeks after activists in Dallas turned in almost 50,000 signatures to put decriminalization on
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