WY: Marijuana advocates aim to get initiatives on the 2024 ballot after signature confusion
Marijuana advocates are taking stock of their options to get two initiatives onto the 2024 ballot after a misunderstanding led them to believe the measures didn't qualify when, in fact, it appears they did.
Last month, Compassionate Options Wyoming, Wyoming NORML and the Wyoming Libertarian Party announced in a statement that they were considering "political and legal options" after allegedly receiving mixed guidance from the Secretary of State's Office over different administrations.
The misunderstanding concerned the number of signatures needed to get the groups' marijuana initiatives — one to decrease penalties for use and possession of cannabis, the other to legalize access to medical marijuana — on the ballot for Wyoming's 2024 elections.
Based on some of the guidance, they concluded their marijuana initiatives didn't qualify for a vote in next year's elections. They believed they had thousands fewer signatures than needed, so the organizers didn't even submit them to the Secretary of State's Office before their March deadline, the organizers' spokesperson Apollo Pazell said.
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