A Massachusetts campaign says it is “on track” to collect enough signatures to put an initiative on the 2026 ballot that would roll back key aspects of adult-use marijuana legalization in the state. Meanwhile, some in the cannabis reform community are raising concerns about alleged instances where voters are being approached by signature gatherers with misleading information before signing petitions.
About a month after Massachusetts Attorney General Joy Campbell (D) cleared the campaign for signature gathering by certifying the recriminalization proposal, spokesperson Wendy Wakeman said the process is “going well” as they work to collect 100,000 signatures by a December 3 deadline.
“It’s on track,” Wakeman told Cannabis Business Times, while acknowledging that the “whole process—the initiative petition process—isn’t easy.”
In order to potentially qualify for the ballot, the campaign will need to submit an initial batch of 74,574 valid signatures. Internally, prohibitionist advocates have determined that they need to collect around 100,000 “because there are two different vetting processes that the signature sheets, the petitions, will go through,” and so it’s important to have that cushion for those that are potentially invalidated.
“The process at every step is political,” Wakeman said, arguing that while the voters decisively approved legalization
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