Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana said it was nearing the halfway point in its campaign to qualify a pair of petitions that would legalize the use of cannabis for medical treatments for the November ballot.
Lincoln Sen. Anna Wishart, a co-sponsor of the petitions, said the group is on track to gather the 87,000 signatures needed before the July 7 deadline, despite several setbacks earlier this year.
“We are really pulling together a campaign,” Wishart said, “and we’ve got a ton of people who have gotten out of the house to come grab a petition and collect signatures.”
At the start of May, Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana had collected roughly 20,000 signatures for each of its two petitions. This week, the campaign reported 40,000 people had signed each petition.
The 80,000 total signatures surpasses the goal of 75,000 the campaign set at the start of May when it moved to an all-grassroots effort following the death of a major donor and a terminal diagnosis in another, Wishart said.
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