Medical marijuana will not be on November ballot

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Martha Stoddard

LINCOLN — The Nebraska Supreme Court on Thursday tossed a proposed constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana off the November ballot.

The court majority ruled that the proposal by Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana violated the Nebraska Constitution's requirement that ballot issues stick to a single subject.

The ruling overturns a decision last month by Secretary of State Bob Evnen, who announced that, while “there are a number of problems” with the proposal, it met the legal requirements to be placed before voters.

Backers of the measure turned in more than 182,000 petition signatures, gathered from all 93 Nebraska counties, to the Secretary of State’s Office in July to put it on the ballot.



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I signed the petition for this.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. When the franchises are all going to the right people

prohibition will sail through, just like the 1930s.

[Ligyron]

2. It's always about the money.

and nobody gives 2 shits about weed anymore. Even Florida has "medical" now with a strain for whatever ails ya.

[TheFarseer]

3. Is this because they tried to put restrictions on it?

Such as you have to be 18 and you can’t drive while high and you have to be licensed to sell or whatever restrictions they had? It makes it harder to run attack ads against it. I’m picturing the ad again a clean amendment: These God Damn Communists want your toddler to drive a truck and smoke dope on their way to get more dope in some back alley. I say HAAAEL NO!

[hibbing]

4. Stinks

I was hoping this would at least be on the ballot. I signed the petition for this too!

Peace

[Hip2bSquare]

5. Ah what a bummer Nebraska

Keep fighting. It'll happen. It's inevitable.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. We are supposed to finally be able to buy recreational

marijuana this October in Maine... 5 years after we originally voted on it. It took so long because LePage stalled the implementation while he was govenor.