Texas activists announced on Wednesday that they have collected enough signatures to qualify a marijuana decriminalization initiative for the local November ballot in Killeen. This marks the latest success for Ground Game Texas, a progressive advocacy group that recently championed a decriminalization measure in Austin that voters overwhelmingly approved at the ballot earlier this month. For Killeen, Ground Game Texas Political Director Mike Siegel told Marijuana Moment that the group collected more than 2,400 signatures, and 1,400 have been pre-verified. “We feel confident this will be enough to secure verification of the initiative,” he said. Killeen isn’t quite as large as the state capital, of course, but the successful signature gathering campaign is another indication of the strong appetite for cannabis reform among voters in the Lone Star state. “In a quickly growing and thriving community like Killeen, there’s no excuse for the continued over-policing and incarceration of community members for marijuana use,” Julie Oliver, executive director of Ground Game Texas, said in a press release.
Kyle Jaeger, Marijuana Moment, 05/25/2022 12:08:00