A pair of medical cannabis legalization initiatives will not appear on Nebraska’s ballot in November, the state announced on Monday, the 22nd of August. But while advocates are disappointed, they’re already turning their attention to 2024 for another push.
While activists with Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana (NMM) had held out hope that they turned in enough raw signatures to qualify, the verification process showed that they came up short by about 10,000 signatures for each measure.
In order to qualify, the campaign needed to submit at least 86,776 valid signatures statewide per measure, including at least five percent of registered voters in 38 of the state’s 93 counties.
They ended up with 77,843 signatures for one measure and 77,119 for the other while also failing to meet the county-level signature threshold for both.
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