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New Mexico Marijuana Legalization Amendment (2016)
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| Origin | Legislature |
| Topic | Marijuana |
| Status | Not on the ballot |
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The New Mexico Marijuana Legalization Amendment did not appear on the November 8, 2016 ballot in New Mexico as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure would have legalized the possession and personal use of marijuana by persons twenty-one years of age or older. The New Mexico Legislature would have provided by statute for the production, processing, transportation, sale, taxation and acceptable quantities and places of marijuana and hemp use.[1]
The amendment was proposed by Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino (D-12) as Senate Joint Resolution 2.[2]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article XX, New Mexico Constitution
The proposed amendment would add a new section to Article XX of the New Mexico Constitution. The following text would be added by the proposed measure's approval:[3]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the New Mexico Constitution
According to Article XIX of the New Mexico Constitution, a simple majority is required in the legislature to refer the amendment to the ballot.
On February 12, 2015, the Senate Rules Committee voted 5 to 4 to recommend the amendment's approval.[5]
The 2015 legislative session ended on March 21, 2015, without the legislature referring the amendment to the ballot.[6] However, legislators reintroduced the amendment as Senate Joint Resolution 6 during the 2016 legislative session on January 5, 2016. The legislature did not refer the measure to the ballot by the close of the legislative session on February 18, 2016.[7]
Polls
| Arizona Marijuana Legalization Poll | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Poll | Support | Oppose | Margin of error | Sample size | |||||||||||||||
| Research & Polling Inc. 1/8/2016 - 1/13/2016 | 61% | 34% | +/-5 | 406 | |||||||||||||||
| Note: The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org. | |||||||||||||||||||
Related measures
The first attempt to legalize marijuana through the initiative process came in 1972, when California activists got an initiative certified for the ballot. The measure was defeated. Marijuana legalization advocates had their breakthrough election in 2012, when both Washington and Colorado legalized recreational marijuana. Oregonians rejected a legalization measure that same year, but approved one two years later in 2014. As of the beginning of 2016, recreational marijuana had been legalized in four states and Washington, D.C. All legalizations came through the initiative process. As of the beginning of 2016, medical marijuana was legal in 25 states.[8]
More than 60 statewide marijuana-related initiatives were submitted for the 2016 ballot. The table below shows the marijuana-related measures that qualified for the 2016 election ballot:
The following table includes past initiative attempts in the United States to legalize marijuana:
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ New Mexico Legislature, "Senate Joint Resolution 2," accessed February 13, 2015
- ↑ New Mexico Legislature, "Senate Joint Resolution 2 History," accessed February 13, 2015
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Albuquerque Journal, "Senate panel OKs letting voters decide whether to legalize pot," February 12, 2015
- ↑ KOAT, "New Mexico legislative session ends," March 22, 2015
- ↑ New Mexico Legislature, "Senate Joint Resolution 6 History," accessed January 20, 2016
- ↑ ProCon.org, "25 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC," June 28, 2016
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