Saturday, August 23, 2014

Oklahoma medical marijuana petition falls short

 — An effort to legalize medical marijuana in Oklahoma has fallen short of the number of signatures needed to put the issue on a ballot, but the initiative petition's organizer vowed Thursday to circulate a new ballot measure next year.
Officials at the Secretary of State's Office said Tulsa-based Oklahomans for Health needed 155,216 voter signatures to get the medical marijuana issue on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. But workers who wrapped up the validation process on Thursday counted only 75,384 valid signatures.




Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/08/21/4086968/oklahoma-medical-marijuana-petition.html#storylink=cpy

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