North Dakota marijuana legalization group withdraws petition for rewrite

A group seeking to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota through the ballot box withdrew a petition submitted to state election officials Tuesday and plans to rewrite the proposal, the sponsoring committee's chairman said.

John Bailey, of Courtenay, called it a "group decision" to redraft the proposed constitutional amendment, but he declined to specify what changes were in store. Secretary of State Al Jaeger said just before noon Tuesday that the petition had been withdrawn hours after it was submitted Monday.

"There were a few things that needed to be changed on it," Bailey said.

The original petition would allow North Dakotans to grow marijuana on private property for personal use as well as consume or possess the drug "in any form." It calls for lawmakers to establish a system for regulating marijuana and allows voters to petition for public sales in their communities.

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