The Supreme Court of Arkansas has ruled that voters will get their say on whether or not to legalize recreational cannabis in the state come the November elections. The recent decision overturns an earlier ban by Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners.
“The people will decide whether to approve the proposed amendment in November,” Justice Robin Wynne notes in the court’s ruling.
Commissioners claimed the ballot’s title didn’t explain the amendment’s true impact to voters. One example listed was a concern that the amendment would eliminate the state’s THC limit established when medical marijuana was approved.
“The type of detail that the board expected, or demanded, in this case, would make our ballot title thousands and thousands of words long,” Lancaster said following the vote. “That just simply is not workable for a ballot.”
Conservative governors in the state supported the decision from the elections board,
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