Crista Eggers
STATEWIDE- Over 150 volunteers will be mobilizing in communities across the state on Saturday to continue fighting for medical cannabis access. Supporters are hosting over 50 petition signing events in over 30 cities and towns on Saturday, March 16th. They are calling the event “Shamrock Signing Saturday”.
NMM is leading the effort to place two statutory medical cannabis initiatives on the ballot before voters this November. Supporters need to collect 87,000 verified voter signatures on each petition by July 3, 2024. Additionally, they are required to qualify 38 counties with signatures from at least 5% of the counties voter population.
Nebraska families and patients with severe and debilitating illnesses called on state lawmakers to enact a compassionate cannabis policy for over ten years before they decided to go to the ballot. The campaign collected more than enough signatures in 2020, but were later tossed from the ballot after a legal challenge. In 2022, the death of their financial backers forced them to run a fully grassroots campaign where they came up 8,000 signatures short.
“Nebraskans across the state overwhelmingly support medical cannabis access. Most recent polling shows at least 70% approval statewide, including a majority of every demographic group and all political affiliations. We will not stop until every suffering Nebraskan has the option of medical cannabis, and that success will come when people have the chance to vote on this in November,” said NMM Campaign Manager Crista Eggers.
A list of signing locations is available at www.nebraskamarijuana.org/shamrocksigning.