Pot supporters in Arkansas seem to have made a ton of grammatical errors while trying to submit a ballot because of how much of a hurry they are currently in. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge stated that she had to reject a proposed amendment to legalize recreational marijuana not because she wanted to, but because she had to. There were a large amount of mistakes in both spelling errors as well as grammatical errors. Rutledge added that even if the spelling and grammar were brushed up it would have still been denied because the overall content was too ambiguous to lead a change in state policy.
Here’s an example of some of the problems that were found in the text: “any person eighteen (18) years of age and older.” This would be grammatically incorrect because a person cannot be 18 years old AND older, but what should have been written was “18 years of age or older.” The attorney General also meticulously scoured through the text for subject-verb agreement as well as for the singular and plural errors. Here are two examples in which the grammar was incorrect: “State laws as it pertains to marijuana” and “number of licenses.”
Marry Berry of Summit, Arkansas wrote the proposal. Berry hopes to get rid of prohibition across the state by making a marketplace where “all products derived from the cannabis plant” would not be considered legal by state law. Rutledge also noted that a segment of the ballot measure was not specific enough to pass. On a brighter note, though, now that all of the issues with the initiative have been made public, Berry can now rewrite her proposal and submit it to the state again.
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