Cannabis Legalization Initiative In North Dakota: Activists Submit More Than Enough Signatures To Place The Measure On November Ballot
Members of the New Economic Frontier, which is behind the push to legalize marijuana in North Dakota, delivered boxes filled with 22,444 signatures to the State Capitol on Monday. That’s just days after the campaign confirmed it has gathered enough signatures to place the initiative on the November ballot.
If approved, this push would be the third time to ask voters to legalize recreational marijuana this November, as previous efforts in 2018 and 2022 to legalize recreational cannabis in North Dakota failed.
“As we’re getting closer and closer and closer, why this is important now is because at some point it’s going to pass,” Steve Bakken, said former Bismarck mayor and chairperson for the ballot-initiative …