Decriminalizing Cannabis Might End Up on Ballot in Denton City Election
“As we’ve seen with both the conservative majority and now a liberal majority on council, we don’t have a council right now that’s willing to move forward with something more encompassing, like a complete decriminalization ordinance,” Seikel said. “That’s why we have pivoted now to going a ballot route. The good news about that is we’re not alone in doing this.”Seikel said there are a lot of other campaigns looking to adopt similar ordinances through ballot initiatives.
“We want de facto decriminalization as an A priority, more important to us than legalization because we’ve seen in many states where they’ve legalized but they haven’t focused on the justice component,” he said. “That’s left a lot of cannabis prisoners and a lot of people unjustly suffering in jail while other people, usually rich white folks, come into the market and dominate it and don’t have that same history of being persecuted by those same laws.
Seikel said November 2022 would be perfect timing for the ordinance because it’s around the same time Attorney General Ken Paxton is up for re-election.
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