Does NJ have ballot initiative? That would easily get on the ballot if someone started it.
Only the Legislature can call a referendum. There's no initiatives.
And it looks like Ron Rice & Co. are going to hold up the bill. Given the really good criminal justice side of the bill (allowing for tex-felons with marijuana offenses to have them stricken off their record, starting releases for some of those in jail), it's genuinely maddening how these guys (and most them being African American men at that) think this is going to be bad for the state