INITIATIVE PETITIONS WOULD LEGALIZE MARIJUANA IN NEBRASKA

Nebraska City, Neb. - Two seperate initiative petitions underway in
Nebraska seek to legalize marijuana.

A petition circulated by Frank Shoemaker of Holbrock, Neb., seeks to
add proposition XIX to the Nebraska Constitution.

The amendment would legalize marijuana for private, noncommerical use
and cause the state to set aside any previous marijuana convictions.

The Nebraska Medical Initiative, represented by John H. Smith of
McCook, would establish state law to regulate medical marijuana to
allow patients or patients' caregivers to cultivate, possess and
distribute an approved amount of marijuana.

Measure 21 would also enact a law to allow medical marijuana dispensaries.

The medical initiative also seeks a constitutional amendment
prohibting lawmakers from preventing patients from possession of
marijuana used to treat a medical condition.