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posted on its website that the adult-use legalization proponents withdrew the initiative and that it was no longer active with the office.

The proposed initiative aimed to legalize up to 8 ounces of cannabis flower or 1 ounce of concentrate for adults 21 and older, allowing them to grow and harvest up to 12 plants at home for personal use.

It would also have established a taxed and regulated adult-use market for licensed businesses to cultivate, manufacture and sell cannabis products, placing a 10% excise tax on adult-use dispensary sales while eliminating Oklahoma’s 7% tax on medical cannabis.

While ORCA organizers submitted their proposal to the secretary of state’s office in late March, they couldn’t start collecting signatures until Aug. 6, leaving a three-month window to meet the deadline.

ORCA’s failed initiative comes 2 1/2 years after Oklahoma voters soundly defeated an adult-use legalization initiative in the state’s March 2023 special election, when 62% of ballots cast opposed the measure by a competing legalization group: Oklahomans for Sensible Marijuana Laws (OSML).

At the time of that defeat, many cannabis reform proponents blamed the lack of voter support on the reputation of Oklahoma’s medical cannabis program as the “wild west” of legalization for its unlimited license structure and low cost of entry that led to “ghost owners,” organized crime, law enforcement eradication efforts and public safety concerns.

Green and fellow ORCA organizer Adam Johnson opposed OSML’s 2023 ballot measure because it was “bad language for industry, did not protect consumers and was backed by out-of-state interests,” they wrote earlier this year.

ORCA’s unsuccessful attempt to land a state question on the 2026 ballot comes after the group also failed to gather enough signatures for a proposed legalization measure in 2022, when they were also up against a three-month collection period.