
North Dakota marijuana activists managed to gather enough signatures to submit a petition for placing recreational cannabis legalization on the ballot scheduled for November. The group had a task of submitting 15,582 valid signatures, or 2% of the state’s population, before the July 11 deadline, but they managed to gather much more – 25,762 signatures, writes The Bismarck Tribune.
The organization's campaign manager, David Owen, said the group submitted more than 25,500 signatures to the secretary of state, whose office validate the signatures in the following 35 days.