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It’s looking more and more likely that the residents of Michigan will be able to vote on whether or not to legalize recreational cannabis use in their state next year, thanks to the efforts of the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol (CRMLA). The cannabis advocacy group reports that they have collected over 360,000 signatures on a petition to place a legalization measure onto the state’s 2018 general election ballot.
The CRMLA finished collecting the signatures last week, exceeding the minimum of 252,523 needed to place a measure on an election ballot. The organization will present the petition to state officials today, after which they will hold a press conference to discuss the legalization effort. However, the inclusion of the ballot measure is still not guaranteed, even though enough signatures have been collected. In 2016, MILegalize collected 350,000 signatures to place a legalization measure on that year’s ballot, but a legal challenge disqualified so many signatures that the measure did not make it to the polls.
“Collecting enough signatures to get on the ballot is always a massive undertaking and we’re thrilled to have gathered more than 100,000…
