GROUP PLANS TO FILE MARIJUANA PETITION

A group collecting signatures on an initiative petition to legalize
possession of an ounce of marijuana for adults plans to file its petition
Tuesday.

Larry Sandell, campaign manager for the Committee to Regulate and Control
Marijuana, said today the organization has more than 55,000 signatures and
was still collecting more today.

The petition needs 51,337 valid signatures to put the issue before the 2005
Legislature. The petitions will be filed in Clark, Washoe, Douglas and Lyon
counties and in Carson City.

If the group has the required number of valid signatures, then the 2005
Legislature must consider the issue in the first 40 days of its session. If
the Legislature refuses to approve the petition, it goes on the ballot.