'I BELIEVE IT'S TIME:' PUSH FOR MEDICAL MARIJUNA PETITION

FREMONT, Neb. — It's a grassroots campaign to attempt to amend the Nebraska constitution.The group, Nebraska for Sensible Marijuana Laws, has gathered about 15,000 signatures so far.

"I believe it's time," Mark Jensen said. Jensen is the Dodge County coordinator and pushed the petition at the Fremont library. "Sometimes our leadership comes from above and sometimes it comes from below and I think the leadership is going to have to come from registered voters," Jensen said.

The national group, Smart Approaches to Marijuana, has a chapter in Nebraska co-chaired by former state Sen., John Kuehn. "There is no such thing as medical marijuana," Kuehn said.

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