The opportunity to sign a medical marijuana petition is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday (March 16) in the east meeting room of Keene Memorial Library.
Fremont is the site of one of the more than 50 petition-signing events scheduled Saturday in more than 30 communities. Officials are calling it, “Shamrock Signing Saturday”.
Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana 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. 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 more than 10 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,” said NMM Campaign Manager Crista Eggers. “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.”
A list of signing locations is available at www.nebraskamarijuana.org/shamrocksigning.
