LINCOLN- Mark Elworth Jr. has been working on forming a party in Nebraska to support marijuana legalization for a long time — six years, to be exact. Now, he thinks he's gathered enough signatures to make the Legal Marijuana Now Party official. This week Elworth turned in 15,000 signatures, more than the needed 6,800, that he and other volunteers collected over a number of years. Since the party can't have ballot access this year, his focus in turning in the signatures now is to keep young people from leaving the state, he said. He sees all over social media, he said, that they are disgusted with Nebraska politics and are talking about leaving the state because of those politics.

When asked if the Legal Marijuana Now party is about just one issue, Elworth said: "We're marijuana smokers. You can imagine what we're about. We're really about the lifestyle. Not just marijuana. We're a whole culture that is not represented, really, by anybody."

The party started in Minnesota more than 30 years ago to oppose drug prohibition as an offshoot of the Grassroots Party.

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