Pot legalization group loses Michigan Supreme Court fight
Leaders of MI Legalize say they represent a majority of Michiganders who, according to statewide polls, want to see marijuana “taxed and regulated like alcohol,” according to the MI Legalize website. The group’s website and its board members also say that their lawsuit contesting the 180-day window is aimed at helping any similar group that wants to get its petition measure on state ballots but can't afford to hire the scores of paid petition circulators required to obtain enough signatures within 180 days.
Although MI Legalize submitted 354,000 signatures, well over the 252,000 required, state election officials declared that “more than 200,000 were collected more than 180 days before the petition was submitted” to the Secretary of State, according to a Court of Claims ruling on the lawsuit. In its lawsuit, MI Legalize argued that when volunteers submitted a truckload of signed petitions, they also provided the means for proving that the “stale” signatures were, in...
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