{"id":204192,"date":"2020-07-22T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=204192"},"modified":"2020-07-23T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:13:26","slug":"ballot-petition-drive-legalize-recreational-pot-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=204192","title":{"rendered":"Ballot petition drive, legalize recreational pot, falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Supporters of amending North Dakota\u2019s constitution to legalize recreational <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MarijuanaJoint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-204237\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MarijuanaJoint-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MarijuanaJoint-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MarijuanaJoint-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MarijuanaJoint.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> say they will try again to collect enough signatures to get the issue on the ballot. The group had a year to gather and submit at least 26,904 valid signatures of North Dakota voters to Secretary of State Al Jaeger. The final deadline was Wednesday. Petitioners missed earlier deadlines to make this year\u2019s June and November ballots but continued to collect signatures<strong> in hopes of a June 2022 vote.<\/strong> Chairwoman Jody Vetter told The Bismarck Tribune the group gathered just shy of 24,000 signatures and wouldn\u2019t be submitting petitions. But Vetter says supporters are planning to start again with an identical proposal for 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Supporters of amending North Dakota\u2019s constitution to legalize recreational say they will try again to collect enough signatures to get the issue on the ballot. The group had a year to gather and submit at least 26,904 valid signatures of North Dakota voters to Secretary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":204237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204238,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204192\/revisions\/204238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}