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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Petition for measure to legalize marijuana in North Dakota submitted to Secretary of State's office 🌿Petition for measure to legalize marijuana in North Dakota submitted to Secretary of State's office
A petition for a proposed ballot measure that would legalize marijuana in North Dakota was submitted Wednesday to the secretary of state’s office.
The committee’s petition for the statutory measure was received by the North Dakota Secretary of State’s office at about 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Group members are looking to remove from North Dakota Century Code all references to marijuana and substances deriving from cannabis as being illegal drugs as well as possession of marijuana paraphernalia.
If approved, the measure would also set a legal age of 21 for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia as well as the growing of it. Taxation of marijuana by local or state government would be capped at 20 percent sales tax.
“We don’t think the reasons for a prohibition are legitimate,” committee chairman Eric Olson of Fargo said in a phone interview.
Olson said smoking marijuana is a lifestyle choice that the public shouldn’t...
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