North Dakota Defeats Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative
by Amy Wilding-Fox
Tightly limited to seven cultivation and eighteen retail locations, nearly 55 percent of the voters rejected Measure 2, which would have legalized marijuana for adults 21 and older. If it had passed, citizens could possess up to 1 ounce and grow 3 plants. The initiative largely mirrored the house bill that was defeated by North Dakota’s senate. This is the second time voters have turned down legalizing weed, with a previous attempt rejected by a higher margin of 59 percent voting no in 2018. This year a competing constitutional amendment that would have allowed possession and the cultivation of up to 12 plants failed to gather enough signatures to make it to the ballot.
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