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Two ballot measures dealing with medical marijuana were on the Nebraska ballot. A total of 70.7% of voters approved Initiative Measure 437 and 66.9% of voters approved Initiative Measure 438 .
LINCOLN — A top opponent of medical cannabis in Nebraska filed a new lawsuit Tuesday seeking to void two successful 2024 ballot measures to legalize and regulate the drug. Gov. Jim Pillen has ...
Last November, when Nebraska voters overwhelmingly approved a pair of medical marijuana initiatives, the fate of those measures was unclear because of a pending legal challenge. But a subsequent ...
Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana argued in court that even if some of the signatures gathered were flawed, the group still had well over the 86,499 needed. The Secretary of State's office certified nearly 90,000 signatures on both the petition to allow marijuana for medical use and the one to set up a commission to regulate it.
Overall, Illinois is the 11th state in the US to allow recreational marijuana. [29] An estimated 700,000 Illinoisans will qualify for the expungement of past marijuana-related convictions. [30] The state, in partnership with the Illinois State Police, expects to fully complete the process by 2025. To date, Illinois was the first state in the ...
1927: New York, [15] Idaho, Kansas, Montana, and Nebraska ban marijuana. [16] 1931: Illinois bans marijuana. [17] 1931: Texas declares cannabis a narcotic, allowing up to life sentences for possession. [18] 1933: North Dakota and Oklahoma ban marijuana. [16] By this year, 29 states have criminalized cannabis. [19]
Marijuana was decriminalized to a civil infraction for first-time offenders in 1978 or 1979. [5] Testimony given by Nebraska prosecutors and local law enforcement officials before the Nebraska Legislature Judiciary Committee in 2014 showed the different counties in Nebraska respond to marijuana in significantly differing ways. Some county ...
Nebraska is one of three states that haven't legalized marijuana or cannabis products for medical purposes or recreational use. The initiative has until July 3. to collect at least 87,000 ...