Oklahoma electorate are heading to the polls on Tuesday to make a decision on a poll measure that might legalize marijuana for adults.
In maximum counties all the way through the state, the hashish measure—State Question 820—is the one factor that electorate will see on their poll—a novel scenario within the historical past of legalization tasks.
Advocates attempted to place the reform at the November 2022 poll, however delays in signature verification by means of officers and the state Supreme Court’s next choice in litigation intended that it ignored the window to qualify for that cycle. In October, Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) referred to as a unique election for the hashish measure, now going down on Tuesday.
Watch this web page for reside effects as ballots are counted on Tuesday night time:
Here’s what the hashish legalization initiative would achieve:
The measure would permit adults 21 and older to buy and possess as much as one ounce of hashish, develop as much as six mature vegetation and 6 seedings for private use. The present Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority can be chargeable for regulating this system and issuing hashish industry licenses.
A fifteen p.c excise tax can be imposed on adult-use marijuana merchandise, with earnings going to an “Oklahoma Marijuana Revenue Trust Fund.”
The finances would first quilt the price of administrating this system and the remaining can be divided between municipalities the place the gross sales took place (10…
