It has been a long road, but Oklahoma voters will get their say in the medical marijuana legalization issue this summer. Governor Fallin Thursday set June 26 as the election date for State Question 788 on the Primary Election ballot.
“Backers of this proposal to legalize medical marijuana followed procedures and gathered the more than 66,000 required signatures to submit the issue to a vote of the people,” said Fallin. “I’m fulfilling my duty as governor to decide when that election will occur this year.”
If approved by voters, the measure would permit doctors to recommend a patient, who is at least 18 years old, for a state-issued medical marijuana license. A license holder would be allowed to legally possess up to 3 ounces of the drug, six mature plants and six seedlings. These limits can be increased by individual counties or cities.
The initiative petition for a medical marijuana vote was circulated in 2016, but was delayed from getting on the ballot that year because of the timing and then Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s rewording of the ballot title which was overturned by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in 2017.
