LINCOLN- A Lancaster County District Court judge Friday allowed a lawsuit against the state’s active medical cannabis petitions to proceed. In a 14-page ruling, Judge Susan Strong determined that the lawsuit from John Kuehn, a veterinarian, rancher, former state senator and former member of the Nebraska State Board of Health, should proceed on two counts related to voter signatures. The judge dismissed the other complaints on a ballot sponsor statement and the Nebraska Constitution’s “single subject” rule.

Kuehn has alleged there are more than enough improperly counted valid signatures that the two medical cannabis petitions should be withheld from the Nov. 5 ballot. The campaign needs 86,499 valid signatures on its two petitions to regulate and legalize the drug. Secretary of State Bob Evnen, who is also named in the lawsuit, validated nearly 90,000 signatures on both petitions on Sept. 13, the final day to do so.

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