Updated DEPC resource reviews "Drugs on the Ballot" 2024 (and in prior elections)

I am very pleased to be able to promote this updated resource page, "Drugs on the Ballot," authored by the great staff at the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center (DEPC) at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.  The page not only details the various marijuana reform ballot initiatives that voters will be considering in at least four states this November, but it also provides a set of maps and timelines of efforts to enact and implement state marijuana reforms over time, via both ballot measures and legislation.  Here is the introduction to the resource on the main page:

Ever since California voters legalized medical marijuana via a ballot initiative in 1996, many advocates in the U.S. have embraced direct democracy as a means to bypass reluctant legislatures and advance marijuana legalization and broader drug policy reforms.  There are now 24 states that have legalized adult-use marijuana, in addition to Washington D.C. On November 7, 2023, Ohio joined the list of 14 out of those 24 states that have legalized adult-use marijuana via the ballot box.  As of the summer 2024, marijuana is legal for medical use in 38 states.  Of those, 18 states passed medical marijuana at the ballot box, with the other 20 passing medical marijuana via the legislature.  The 2020 ballot saw Oregon decriminalize possession of small amounts of all drugs, though a 2024 law passed by Oregon’s legislature has mostly rolled back the measure.  Voters in 2022 approved a ballot initiative decriminalizing some psychedelic plants and fungi in Colorado.

This page details the drug-related ballot initiatives up for a vote in the November 2024 election and provides a timeline of efforts to enact and implement marijuana reforms via the ballot box since 1996.  It also provides information on the 2022 ballot initiatives, as well as the 2023 ballot initiatives in Oklahoma and Ohio, and the results of six Ohio localities that sought to decriminalize marijuana via local ordinances in November 2022.