North Dakota activists say they have collected enough signatures to put a marijuana legalization initiative on the November ballot, with plans to formally submit the petitions to the state next week.
“After months of hard work and incredible community support, we are ready to submit our collected signatures at the North Dakota State Capitol,” the campaign New Economic Frontier said in an email on Tuesday.
The advisory didn’t specify how many signatures activists collected—but they’ve been internally verifying the petitions throughout the process, with the campaign saying it reached the halfway point last month. In order to make the ballot this November, they will need to submit 15,582 valid signatures to the state by Monday’s deadline, which is when the campaign has scheduled its turn-in event for.
“Once we know the bill is going to be on the ballot, then it turns into opportunities to talk about what cannabis can do for North Dakota from a judicial and law enforcement perspective,” Steve Bakken, a Burleigh County commissioner and chair of the campaign, told Minot Daily News. “There’s a lot of different layers on this, and giving the public the information to make their own decision as a voter is vitally
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