Legalizing medical marijuana in North Dakota approved for November ballot

BISMARCK – North Dakotans will vote this fall on whether to legalize marijuana for medical use, one of five measures that will appear on the November ballot, Secretary of State Al Jaeger said Thursday.

Sponsors needed 13,452 signatures to put the initiated measure, which they’ve dubbed the Compassionate Care Act, on the Nov. 8 ballot. They delivered 18,011 signatures to Jaeger on July 11, and 17,217 were accepted as qualified electors.

Sponsoring committee chairman Rilie Ray Morgan, a financial adviser from Fargo who suffers from chronic pain, said it was “pretty gratifying” to see so many signatures collected by the 107 volunteers who circulated petitions, and that more than 17,000 were counted as valid.

Backers are still discussing their campaign strategy but will likely call on volunteers for knocking on doors, handing out brochures and other campaign activities, Morgan said. He hopes to have a fundraising website set up by next week.

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