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Group seeks ballot initiative to legalize pot
Ron Maxey, The Commercial Appeal 7:29 p.m. CDT April 3, 2015
HERNANDO, Miss.
...Jeremy Bufford, president of Medical Marijuana United, says he will pay $1 per certified signature collected, or $2 per certified signature in some areas where organizers are finding the challenge of collecting signatures particularly difficult.
“I was desperate for this,” Kelly Jacobs of DeSoto County, who initiated the legalization push known as Ballot Initiative 48, said of Bufford’s involvement. “So many people are afraid to sign because they’re suspicious, and this will provide a real incentive for those collecting signatures to work hard to gather them.”
Jacobs’ group, Mississippi for Cannabis, filed a petition with the secretary of state’s office in September to get the issue on the 2016 general election ballot, and the office in December approved the measure for placement on the ballot as Initiative 48, subject to collecting the required 107,216 petition signatures, or at least 21,443 from each of the state’s five congressional districts that existed before redistricting reduced the number of districts to the current four. Since that time, volunteers have been collecting signatures, but Jacobs hopes the involvement by Bufford will jump-start the collection process.
Bufford has also been active as a volunteer in a similar effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida, and he is active [in]other states’ efforts as well. But Bufford said Wednesday that Mississippi is the only state where he is offering payment to collect signatures.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/life/2015/04/03/group-seeks-ballot-initiative-legalize-pot/25275969/
HERNANDO, Miss.
...Jeremy Bufford, president of Medical Marijuana United, says he will pay $1 per certified signature collected, or $2 per certified signature in some areas where organizers are finding the challenge of collecting signatures particularly difficult.
“I was desperate for this,” Kelly Jacobs of DeSoto County, who initiated the legalization push known as Ballot Initiative 48, said of Bufford’s involvement. “So many people are afraid to sign because they’re suspicious, and this will provide a real incentive for those collecting signatures to work hard to gather them.”
Jacobs’ group, Mississippi for Cannabis, filed a petition with the secretary of state’s office in September to get the issue on the 2016 general election ballot, and the office in December approved the measure for placement on the ballot as Initiative 48, subject to collecting the required 107,216 petition signatures, or at least 21,443 from each of the state’s five congressional districts that existed before redistricting reduced the number of districts to the current four. Since that time, volunteers have been collecting signatures, but Jacobs hopes the involvement by Bufford will jump-start the collection process.
Bufford has also been active as a volunteer in a similar effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida, and he is active [in]other states’ efforts as well. But Bufford said Wednesday that Mississippi is the only state where he is offering payment to collect signatures.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/life/2015/04/03/group-seeks-ballot-initiative-legalize-pot/25275969/
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