Complaint Filed Against Two Voter Approved Medical Cannabis Petitions
Dec 11, 2024
Front side of the Hall of Justice in downtown Lincoln. (Jeff Motz/KFOR News)LINCOLN–(KFOR Dec. 11)–A former Nebraska lawmaker is not giving up his fight against two medical marijuana initiatives that state voters widely passed in November that are set to become state law.
On Tuesday, former Heartwell Senator John Kuehn filed a complaint in Lancaster County over the petitions that got those initiatives on the ballot. Kuehn says the votes were held on two activist-drafted initiatives measures, which evaded any judicial review for their compliance to the federal and state constitutions.
Kuehn is also invoking the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, arguing that the ballot initiative set up to create a state regulatory system for medical cannabis violates federal law.
It names Gov. Jim Pillen, Secretary of State Bob Evnen, as well as Anna Wishart, Crista Eggers, and Adam Morfeld as defendants.