Backers of a new medical marijuana initiative announced today that they have collected over 75,000 signatures on petitions to place Initiative #28 on the November 2010 ballot. The new initiative would add a regulated supply system of dispensaries and producers to the current medical marijuana law which requires patients to produce their own medicine.
Backers need 82,769 valid signatures by July 2, 2010 to place the measure on the November ballot. New election laws require all chief petitioners to turn in signatures collected by paid circulators monthly. All paid signatures collected so far must be turned in by January 15. Backers of I 28
will hold a press conference in the media room of the State Capitol at 11:00 am Monday January 11 before chief petitioners turn the signatures in to the Secretary of State's office at 11:30am.
These are the first signatures turned in under the new election law.