A Massachusetts campaign believes it has collected enough valid signatures to force lawmakers to consider a psychedelics legalization initiative—the first option for the reform before activists move to put it on the state’s 2024 ballot.
In just under two months since Massachusetts for Mental Health Options started petitioning, the campaign says it has internally verified more than 75,000 signatures from registered voters, which is just over the 74,574 threshold that’s required for this first phase of the effort.
The signature milestone, first reported by The Boston Globe on Friday, comes weeks after activists made a decision to pursue one of two psychedelics measures that the state attorney general’s office had cleared in September.
The initiative the campaign selected is more expansive in that it would provide adults with a home cultivation option, wheres the other proposal wouldn’t have. The two measures were otherwise identical, and the New Approach-backed campaign conducted internal polling before deciding which version to pursue.
“We’re feeling really good. It’s obviously a big relief to be where we are,” Jared Moffat, a spokesperson for New Approach, told Marijuana Moment on Friday, adding that the campaign has suspended signature gathering for the time being while town clerks go
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