Voters in three Texas cities will decide on local marijuana decriminalization ballot initiatives on Tuesday, including in Dallas, the third largest city by population in the state.
Ground Game Texas—the campaign that’s spearheaded the measures in Dallas, Lockhart and Bastrop—has been urging supporters to show up to the polls so that the jurisdictions become the latest to enact the reform.
Activists have successfully enacted decriminalization in about a half-dozen Texas cities in recent years.
Here’s where cannabis policy is on the ballot in Texas on Tuesday:
Dallas
In Dallas, local lawmakers formally put the marijuana decriminalization initiative on the ballot in August after activists turned in sufficient petitions for the reform. If voters ultimately approve the proposal, possession of up to four ounces of marijuana would be decriminalized in the city.
Cannabis icon and music legend Willie Nelson recently urged Dallas voters to pass the marijuana measure.
Prior to the August vote on ballot placement, some members of the Dallas City Council had expressed interest in streamlining the process of decriminalizing cannabis by acting legislatively, but plans to introduce the proposal at a hearing in June did not materialize, leaving the matter to voters.
What the initiative
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