North Dakota isn’t Colorado or California. It’s not even Oklahoma.

Respect for North Dakota’s conservative identity is paramount if the state’s voters – who rejected adult-use cannabis legalization measures in 2018 and 2022 – are to be convinced to legalize cannabis this Election Day, campaigners believe.

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“I don’t want us to be Oregon or Washington or Colorado,” where legal marijuana has flourished in a way conservatives might believe to be unchecked, said Steve Bakken, chair of the campaign to pass Measure 5, the third legalization measure to appear on the North Dakota ballot in six years.

North Dakota and Florida are the two Republican-leaning states where voters will consider ballot measures on Nov. 5 to legalize a recreational cannabis market.

Neighboring South Dakota

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