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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 New Nebraska law could help put medical marijuana on ballot 🌿New Nebraska law could help put medical marijuana on ballot
Worried that lawmakers may not act, advocates for medical marijuana could take their campaign to Nebraska voters next year, and a new state law could make their job easier.
Supporters said they've started gathering signatures to place the issue on the November 2016 ballot. Despite significant hurdles, activists from the Omaha chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws said the new petitioning law will make a difference.
"It's still a mighty task, but this helps us tremendously," said Bryan Boganowski, the founder of Omaha NORML.
The law signed last week by Gov. Pete Ricketts allows petition organizers to pay circulators by the signature, instead of by the hour. Critics of the 2008 ban on signature-based pay argued that many grassroots groups don't have the resources to pay circulators hourly, and paying by the signature gives circulators an incentive to gather more.
Boganowski said his group has...
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