Ballot Measures

The initiative and referendum process has long been a tool for advancing progressive drug policy reforms. This year is different.

Senate Republicans target kratom and its analogs, Massachusetts elected officials come out against an initiative to repeal commercial marijuana legalization and home grows, and more.

There are now three Florida marijuana legalization initiative campaigns aimed at 2028, the US conducts another lethal attack on a "drug boat" in the Caribbean, and more.

Houston will vote on making pot possession the lowest law enforcement priority, a group of GOP senators warn of Chinese criminal organizations infiltrating the marijuana and hemp industries, and more.

The US revokes the visas of Latin American officials it accuses of links to the drug trade; the BC Supreme Court voids the conviction of Vancouver harm reductionists for distributing "safe supply" drugs, and more.

Trump tells a drug policy whopper at the UN; Idaho is set to vote on an initiative that would end citizens' ability to change drug policy through the initiative process, and more.

The US kills four more seamen in yet another "drug boat" attack; the Boston Freedom Rally was the largest yet as the state faces a pot legalization repeal initiative, and more.

The Nebraska Supreme Court shuts down the final challenge to the state's voter-approved medical marijuana law; thousands march to demand peace in cartel faction violence-plagued Sinaloa, Mexico, and more.

Marijuana foes are outspending supporters in Massachusetts as voters prepare to vote on ending legal sales and home grows, Colombia prepares a pilot project of coca eradication via aerial spraying, and more.

A new Louisiana law mandates prison time for pot possession in a school zone (including universities), an Arizona initiative would label drug cartels terrorist organizations, and more.