Michigan activists announced on Wednesday that they will no longer be pursuing a statewide psychedelics legalization ballot initiative for this year’s election and will instead focus on qualifying the measure to go before voters in 2024.
The coalition of organizations behind the ballot push—including Decriminalize Nature, its Michigan chapter and Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP)—didn’t have much time to work with after they were approved for signature gathering in March, with a deadline to turn in enough valid petitions by June 1. And now they’ve accepted that the activist-led push for reform will need to be recalibrated.
“It’s time to refocus our energy,” Myc Williams, campaign manager of the Michigan Initiative for Community Healing, said in a press release. “We knew a June 1st deadline make the 2022 ballot was ambitious with just over two months to collect, and now we know we have the momentum necessary to move forward with a normal 180[-day] collection period. We’ll see ya at the polls in 2024.”
In an email, Williams declined to say how many signatures the activists have been able to collect so far, but he told Marijuana Moment that he can “confirm that current signatures are still valid for
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