Medical Marijuana Program Connection

Granite remains ‘red,’ local taxes approved

MMP News AuthorNovember 9, 2022

Rural counties on Tuesday continued approving local option taxes on recreational marijuana sales by huge margins, a trend that’s played out over every election since the state legalized weed in 2020. Granite County, meanwhile, upheld a ban on recreational pot sales that passed in the June primary. West Yellowstone and ... Read More

Here’s what you need to know about Texas’ pot laws

MMP News AuthorJuly 18, 2022

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This is an updated version of an article that originally ran in Jan. 2020. Since Texas lawmakers in 2019 legalized some forms of the cannabis plant but not others, marijuana ... Read More

Voter ID, minimum wage and medical marijuana campaigns submit petition signatures | Politics

MMP News AuthorJuly 8, 2022

Martha Stoddard , Erin Bamer LINCOLN — Nebraska voters appear on track to decide at least two major issues and maybe three in the November general election. Organizers of petition drives to increase the minimum wage and require voters to show photo ID turned in substantially more signatures to the ... Read More

Medical marijuana petitions to be turned in amid legal uncertainty of requirements in Nebraska | Regional Government

MMP News AuthorJuly 7, 2022

Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana plans to submit more than 90,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office on Thursday to put a pair of initiatives legalizing cannabis for medical use before voters in November. The campaign will surpass the 87,000 names it estimated it would need to qualify for the ... Read More

Nebraska medical marijuana campaign still seeking thousands of signatures | Politics

MMP News AuthorJuly 3, 2022

Erin Bamer , Martha Stoddard LINCOLN — Two out of three of Nebraska’s statewide petitions are on track to get enough signatures to make it on the November ballot, but for one petition, it’s going to come down to the wire. An official with Citizens for Voter ID said the ... Read More

Medical marijuana petitions need 35,000 signatures with less than a week until deadline | Regional Government

MMP News AuthorJuly 2, 2022

The group Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana said its campaign still needs to collect 35,000 signatures in order to qualify a pair of petitions for the November general election ballot. In a news release Friday, campaign manager Crista Eggers, whose son, Colton, suffers from drug-resistant epilepsy, said the campaign was “in ... Read More