Group emerges to oppose North Dakota pot legalization measure

BISMARCK — A gaggle has been fashioned to oppose a measure that will legalize leisure marijuana for adults in North Dakota.

Fargo habit counselor Kristie Spooner filed paperwork on Wednesday, Oct. 5, to create a committee known as Wholesome and Productive North Dakota that may publicly oppose Measure 2, based on a information launch.

New Method North Dakota’s measure

would legalize the possession and buy of small quantities of marijuana for adults 21 and older. The

19-page statutory measure

would additionally enable grownup residents to develop restricted quantities of hashish and implement insurance policies to control retail marijuana shops.

Spooner served because the chairwoman of a profitable marketing campaign to defeat a pot legalization measure in 2018. She is joined on this yr’s marketing campaign by nationwide anti-legalization activists together with Luke Niforatos and Connor Kubeisy of Virginia-based Good Approaches to Marijuana.

Niforatos stated the legalization measure is an try by the marijuana business to take root in North Dakota “irrespective of the results for public well being and public security.”

“Measure 2 would end in extra youth utilizing marijuana, extra site visitors fatalities from marijuana-impaired drivers, extra marijuana-related emergency division visits, and numerous antagonistic bodily and psychological well being results,” Niforatos stated.

The opposition committee didn’t report elevating or spending any cash on the marketing campaign in its first submitting.

Dave Owen, the legalization measure’s chairman, stated Wednesday afternoon his group was forming a response to the opposition marketing campaign’s claims.

Mail-in voting started Sept. 29 in North Dakota. The final election is Nov. 8.