Medical Patients patience has payed off
Nebraska's Sen. Anna Wishart (D), bill has passed , if made law it allow patients with certain qualifying conditions to purchase and possess up to two and a half ounces of cannabis from licensed dispensaries. Oddly it does not allow for smoking. It was reported that Members of the Judiciary Committee approved the measure in a 5-2 vote, sending the bill to the full unicameral legislature for consideration.
Wishart and Sen. Adam Morfeld (D) 's campaign—Nebraskans for Medical Cannabis—had been separately collecting signatures for a medical cannabis legalization measure to get onto the 2020 ballot.
Nebraskans have seen the positive effects of their super high neighbor Colorado., which has added billions of dollars to their coughers coffers.
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Nebraska Senators Will Work To Put Recreational Marijuana On The Ballot In 2022
There are few details about what the marijuana program would look like at this stage, but because of activists’ experience running up against a single-subject rule for ballot initiatives in Nebraska, it stands to reason that the language of the measure could be fairly simple and then it would be up to legislators to set regulations for the legal market.
Nebraskans for Medical Cannabis—headed by state Sens. Adam Morfeld (D) and Anna Wishart (D)—qualified a measure to legalize medical marijuana for this year’s ballot. But the state Supreme Court shut it down following a single-subject challenge.
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Nebraska Activists Are Already Collecting Medical Marijuana Signatures For 2022 After Supreme Court Defeat
Nebraska activists have already started petitioning to get a medical marijuana measure on the state’s 2022 ballot.
While the campaign collected enough signatures to qualify a reform initiative for this year, the state Supreme Court shut it down following a legal challenge. It determined that the measure violated the state’s single-subject rule, much to the disappointment of advocates.
The secretary of state’s office had rejected the argument, which was filed by a local sheriff, but after the case went to court, a majority of justices ultimately ruled that the proposal would be removed from the ballot.
Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana wasted no time gearing up for a follow-up push and are taking into account what the state’s high court ruled by making their new measure very simple.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/nebraska-lawmakers-approve-medical-marijuana-legalization-bill/