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Nebraska Medical Marijuana Program Initiative (2022)

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Nebraska Medical Marijuana Program Initiative
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Marijuana
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
State statute		Origin
Citizens

The Nebraska Medical Marijuana Program Initiative was not on the ballot in Nebraska as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.

The initiative would have enacted the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Patient Protection Act. The act would have legalized the use of up to five ounces of marijuana for medical purposes by qualified patients. Qualified patients would have been defined as:

  • an individual 18 years of age or older with a written recommendation from a health care practitioner; or
  • an individual younger than 18 with a written recommendation from a health care practitioner and with written permission from a legal guardian.[1][2]


Text of measure

Object statement

The object statement for the initiative was as follows:[1]

“ The object of this petition is to enact a statute that makes penalties inapplicable under state and local law for the use, possession, and acquisition of limited quantities of cannabis for medical purposes by a qualified patient with a written recommendation from a health care practitioner, and for a caregiver to assist a qualified patient in these activities.[3] ”

Full text

  • The full text of the measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Nebraska

The state process

In Nebraska, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 7 percent of registered voters as of the deadline for filing signatures. Because of the unique signature requirement based on registered voters, Nebraska is also the only state where petition sponsors cannot know the exact number of signatures required until they are submitted. Nebraska law also features a distribution requirement mandating that petitions contain signatures from 5 percent of the registered voters in each of two-fifths (38) of Nebraska's 93 counties.

Signatures must be submitted at least four months prior to the next general election. Signatures do not roll over; they become invalid after the next general election at least four months after the initial initiative application filing. Depending on when the initiative application is filed, petitioners can have up to just under two years to circulate petitions.

The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2022 ballot:

Signatures are submitted to the secretary of state. The secretary of state sends the appropriate signature petitions to each county, where county election officials verify the signatures. Upon receiving the signatures back from county officials, the secretary of state determines whether or not the requirements were met.

Details about this initiative

  • The initiative was filed by State Senators Anna Wishart (D) and Adam Morfeld (D) on September 2, 2021.[2]
  • On July 7, 2022, the campaign filed 90,000 signatures with the secretary of state.[4]
  • On August 22, 2022, the secretary of state informed the sponsors of the initiative that it did not meet the signature requirement, and therefore would not appear on the 2022 ballot. The petition contained 77,843 valid signatures and met the distribution requirement in 26 counties.[5][6]

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nebraska Secretary of State, "Full text," accessed October 18, 2021
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nebraska Secretary of State, "Petitions in circulation," accessed August 4, 2021
  3. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  4. ↑ Marijuana Moment, "Nebraska Medical Marijuana Activists Turn In Ballot Signatures After Campaign Suffers Legal Setback," July 7, 2022
  5. ↑ Nebraska Journal Star, "Medical marijuana initiative petitions fail to make November ballot," August 22, 2022
  6. ↑ Nebraska Secretary of State, "Medical Marijuana Initiatives fail to make the November Ballot," August 22, 2022
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