Four Initiatives Make November Ballot In Idaho Town

[User]

A central Idaho marijuana legalization advocate's three-year struggle to get marijuana initiatives on the ballot in the town of Hailey will come to fruition in November. City officials announced last Friday that a package of marijuana initiatives proposed by Ryan Davidson will be on the November 6 ballot.

Davidson sought in 2004 to file initiative petitions seeking the legalization of marijuana with the communities of Sun Valley, Hailey, and Ketchum, but local officials in all three locales balked. Sun Valley officials refused to process the initiatives, claiming they were unconstitutional. Davidson and his group, the Liberty Lobby of Idaho, took the municipality all the way to the Idaho Supreme Court, which issued a decision in Davidson's favor last year.

Davidson won a second court victory last month, when a US District Court issued a preliminary injunction barring the city of Hailey from requiring that initiative initiators be residents of the city.

Now, Davidson has four different marijuana initiatives on the November ballot. The first would mandate the city to revise its ordinances to regulate and tax marijuana sales and require it to advocate for the reform of marijuana laws at the state and national level. If approved by voters, city officials would have up to a year to implement the new ordinance. A second initiative would legalize the medical use of marijuana. The third initiative would make enforcement of marijuana laws the lowest law enforcement priority, while the fourth initiative would allow for the use of industrial hemp.

Local officials are resigned to letting the voters decide. "The only way this is going to go away is to let the people vote on it," said Hailey City Council President Rick Davis at a Monday council meeting.

"The voters have to vote on this; the Supreme Court was very clear," said Hailey city attorney Ned Williamson.

Voters in Hailey will get their chance in November. But Ketchum and Sun Valley could be next. Davidson told the Idaho Mountain Express he hoped to have initiatives on the ballot in those two cities for next May's local elections



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[beensmokin420]

Wow! I really hope the voters pass this with flying colors!

If the initiatives get passed does that mean they are totally legal on a state level, all around? Wouldn't this be the biggest break for the cannabis culture ever? Correct me if I'm misunderstanding this, please.

[User]

i'd say its local not state wide

but its still very good

[beensmokin420]

Indeed, still very good, I might move there if it sticks! I'm always lookin for that one spot to move to, to make all my stoner dreams come true.

[User]

its idaho, you could build a compond

[beensmokin420]

compond? Do you mean compound? As in a giant growing facility cause IM ALL FOR THAT!

[User]

yep i meant compound. hey i'm stoned 8-)

seems people are always building compounds up there. whatcha put in it is up to you

[FreakNature]

It would take a good income or independent wealthiness to live in the Sun Valley / Hailey /Ketchum area. Hollywood stars like to hang out there. Quite the resort area.

[Respect]

That first initiative is pretty amazing and ambitious. Was that first initiative offered in places like CA and Colorado when they voted and it just didn't fly?

[Akornpatch]

Everyone should move here to help make this place a little less Conservative. Luckily we're slowly getting better and better! (and so is the weed BTW)

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