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Washington Reduce Cannabis Excise Tax Initiative (2026)
| Washington Reduce Cannabis Excise Tax Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2026 | |
| Topic Sales taxes and Marijuana laws | |
| Status Cleared for signature gathering | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Washington Reduce Cannabis Excise Tax Initiative may appear on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the Legislature, a type of indirect initiated state statute, on November 3, 2026.
This initiative would reduce the state cannabis excise tax from 37% to 7%.[1]
Text of measure
The full text is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Washington, the number of signatures required to qualify an indirectly initiated state statute—called an Initiative to the Legislature in Washington—for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last regular gubernatorial election. Initial filings for indirect initiatives cannot be made more than 10 months before the regular session at which their proposal would be presented to lawmakers. Signatures must be submitted at least 10 days prior to the beginning of the legislative session in the year of the targeted election.
The requirements to get an Initiative to the Legislature certified for the 2026 ballot:
The secretary of state verifies the signatures using a random sample method. If the sample indicates that the measure has sufficient signatures, the measure is certified to appear before the legislature. If the legislature does not approve the measure, it is certified to appear on the ballot. However, if the sample indicates that the measure has insufficient signatures, every signature is checked. Under Washington law, a random sample result may not invalidate a petition.
Details about this initiative
- Michale Robinson and Levi Lyons filed the initiative on March 25, 2025. The ballot language was issued on April 10, 2025.[1]
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