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Arkansas Recreational Marijuana Initiative (2022)
Buy marijuana online discreet packaging.The Arkansas Recreational Marijuana Initiative may appear on the ballot in Arkansas as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
This measure would legalize marijuana use for individuals 21 years of age and older regardless of residency.[1]
Recreational marijuana in the United States
See also: Marijuana laws in the United States
As of November 2020, 16 states and the District of Columbia had legalized marijuana for recreational purposes; nine through statewide citizen initiatives, and two through bills approved by state legislatures and signed by governors. Colorado and Washington both opted to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012. In a subsequent Colorado measure, voters enacted a statewide marijuana taxation system. The three ballot measures that passed in 2014 were Oregon’s Measure 91, Alaska’s Measure 2, and the District of Columbia’s Initiative 71. Voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada approved recreational marijuana legalization ballot measures in November 2016. The Vermont State Legislature approved a bill in mid-January 2018 to allow recreational marijuana, and Gov. Phil Scott (R) signed it into law on January 22, 2018. Gov. Scott vetoed a previous bill to legalize marijuana in May 2017.
On June 25, 2019, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law legalizing the use and possession of recreational marijuana. Initiatives legalizing recreational marijuana were on the ballot in November 2018 in Michigan and North Dakota. The Michigan initiative was approved, and the North Dakota initiative was defeated. Arizona, Montana, and South Dakota approved legalization through initiatives in 2020. New Jersey approved legalization through a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in 2020.[3][4]
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The map below details the status of recreational marijuana legalization in the states as of November 2020. States shaded in green had legalized recreational marijuana usage (the shades of green indicate the years in which ballot measures were adopted; light green indicates measures approved in 2012, medium green indicates measures approved in 2014, medium-dark green indicates measures approved in 2016, and dark green indicates measures approved in 2018 and 2020). The states shaded in dark gray had defeated ballot measures that proposed to legalize recreational marijuana. States in blue had recreational marijuana approved by the state legislature and signed by the governor. The remaining states (those shaded in light gray) had not legalized recreational marijuana.
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Recreational marijuana legalization measures, 2012-2020
The following table provides information on the political context of the states that had voted on legalization measures as of 2020.
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Path to the ballot
See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Arkansas
The state process
In Arkansas, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Proponents must collect signatures equaling at least half of the designated percentage of gubernatorial votes in at least 15 of the state’s counties. There is no limit on how long an initiative petition can be circulated. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear. According to a law approved by the state legislature in 2019 as an emergency taking immediate effect, initiative ballot titles and popular names are certified by the board of election commissioners (rather than the attorney general) after signatures are submitted (rather than before).
The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 89,151 valid signatures
- Deadline: July 8, 2022—four months prior to the election
If the secretary of state certifies that enough signatures were submitted in a petition, the initiative is put on the ballot. If a petition fails to meet the signature requirement, but the petition has at least 75 percent of the valid signatures needed, petitioners have 30 days to collect additional signatures or demonstrate that rejected signatures are valid.Buy marijuana online discreet packaging
Details about this initiative
- Arkansas True Grass sponsored this initiative.[5][6]
- On May 26, 2020, Arkansas True Grass said it was ending its 2020 petition drive due to coronavirus concerns and would instead focus on qualifying the measure for the 2022 ballot.[7]
- As of August 6, 2021, proponents reported having collected 10,000 signatures.[8]
See also
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