Pubdate: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 Source: New York Times (NY) Copyright: 2014 The New York Times Company Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298 Author: Emmarie Huetteman GROUP PROMOTING REFERENDUM ON MARIJUANA SUBMITS SIGNATURES Advocates for the legalization of marijuana in Washington announced Monday that they had collected more than twice the signatures required to get a measure on the November ballot. The district's Board of Elections has up to 30 days to check that the group promoting the measure, the D.C. Cannabis Campaign, had collected valid signatures from at least 22,500 voters. The effort could lead to a confrontation with Congress, which controls the district's budget and can intervene in local lawmaking. - --- MAP posted-by: Matt