Challengers allege fraud in signature collection for marijuana repeal initiative

Mass. marijuana repeal initiative faces new challenge as opponents allege fraud - The Boston Globe

The ballot committee leader says signatures were "collected with integrity."

Ballot measure to repeal Mass. cannabis law faces challenge over deception claims

An initiative that could upend the legal marijuana market in Massachusetts may have started as a long shot, but it has the industry’s attention.The measure would repeal the state law that legalized marijuana sales and established regulations and taxes for recreational pot. After its backers successfully gathered more than 78,000 signatures toward putting the measure on the ballot, a group of marijuana business owners and other supporters of lega…

Massachusetts Officials Will Review Complaint That Anti-Marijuana Campaign 'Fraudulently' Collected Signatures For Ballot Initiative

Massachusetts election officials have scheduled a hearing to investigate a complaint challenging the signature gathering process for a proposed ballot initiative to roll back the state’s marijuana law. This comes about two weeks after the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Elections Division confirmed that the anti-cannabis campaign collected enough valid signatures to send the measure to lawmakers for consideration ahead of potentially being place…

Challengers allege fraud in signature collection for marijuana repeal initiative

Objections raised against proposed ballot initiative to repeal adult-use recreational marijuana in Massachusetts over signature collection concerns.

"Ten years later, here comes a rematch on marijuana legalization" - MASSterList - Mass. Budget and Policy Center

By Gintautas Dumcius, Jan 9, 2026 Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. That’s the case with the proposed ballot question seeking to roll back the marijuana market in Massachusetts, with the aim of shuttering retail shops that have sprung up across the state. If the rollback initiative, a reversal of the 2016 one that legalized marijuana for recreational use, clears several more hurdles on its way to the ballot, it sets up what promises to be an…