Voters Tuesday rejected Statutory Measure 2, which might have created a brand new chapter of the North Dakota Century Code legalizing the manufacturing, processing, and sale of hashish. It might have additionally legalized the possession and use of assorted types of hashish by anybody 21 years of age or older.
Statutory Measure 2 was one among solely two voter initiatives on the poll in North Dakota. The opposite invoice, Statutory Measure 1, would have carried out time period limits for the governor and legislators.
It might have additionally tasked the state well being division with establishing trade laws by Oct. 1, 2023, and cap the variety of cultivation amenities at seven and the variety of retail dispensaries at not more than 18. Different particulars like taxation can be left to the state’s Legislature.
Below the invoice, adults 21 and older would have been in a position to buy and possess as much as one ounce of hashish, 4 grams of focus and flower produced from as much as three vegetation grown at dwelling for private use.
The invoice would have allowed for less than a most of seven cultivation amenities and 18 hashish retailers.
North Dakotans rejected an adult-use hashish legalization measure additionally in 2018 by a vote of almost 60%.
The measure was closely based mostly on language from a legislative hashish proposal, Home Invoice 1420, which was accepted by the North Dakota Home of Representatives in 2021.
Final July, New Approach ND turned in sufficient signatures for the legalization measure to qualify, and Secretary of State Al Jaeger licensed the initiative the following month.
North Dakota voted towards legalization within the 2018 midterm elections, and the laws ended up with the identical destiny this 12 months.