Keep drugs out of Idaho.
Vote YES on HJR 4
HJR 4 keeps the decision with legislators you elect and can fire — not with an out-of-state checkbook that buys its way onto the ballot and goes home.
The bottom line
Keep drugs out of Idaho.Forever.
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Nothing new is banned. Marijuana and hard drugs are already illegal here. HJR 4 decides who can undo that.
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Idahoans decide. Through legislators you elect and can fire, in hearings open to the public.
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Out-of-state money can't buy it. No signature drive funded from a thousand miles away.
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It settles the question. A statute lasts one session. The constitution holds.
The Legislature didn’t decide this. They handed it to you.
Two-thirds of both chambers doesn’t change the constitution — it only buys the right to put the question on your ballot. The decision is yours on November 3.
This is the ordinary way Idaho changes its constitution. The last amendment referred to voters, HJR 5, passed with 64.9% in 2024.
The amendment
The whole thing is one sentence
Here it is, word for word, as it will appear on your ballot.
Only the Idaho Legislature shall have power and authority to legalize the growing, producing, manufacturing, transporting, selling, delivering, dispensing, administering, prescribing, distributing, possessing, or using of marijuana, narcotics, or other psychoactive substances.
Proposed addition to Section 26, Article III, Idaho Constitution
Nothing new is banned
Marijuana, narcotics, and every substance this covers are already illegal in Idaho. HJR 4 adds no crime, penalty, or restriction.
Through the front door
Legalization would need a hearing, testimony, recorded votes, and a signature.
Narrow on purpose
Drug legalization only. Every other ballot subject stays exactly as it is.
The cautionary tale
Oregon ran this experiment for us
An out-of-state-funded campaign put drug decriminalization on Oregon's ballot. Voters passed it. Four years later Oregon's own legislature took it back, with votes from both parties.
- 2020
Voters approve Measure 110 — the first law in the country to decriminalize possession of hard drugs.
- 2021
It takes effect. Possession becomes a $100 citation that can be waived with a phone call.
- 2023
Support collapses. Leaders in both parties call for a rewrite before the session even opens.
- 2024
Governor Kotek signs HB 4002, recriminalizing possession. Reversed in under four years.
A ballot campaign can pass a law overnight. It doesn't have to run the state the morning after.
Citizens have voted on this
States like ours keep saying no
Every one of these was a citizen initiative — signatures gathered, money spent, put directly to the people.
They lose, and they come back. Four red states told the drug industry no at the ballot box, and the campaigns simply refiled somewhere else. Idaho has to win every time. They only have to win once.
Get involved
Put your name on it
Yard signs, precinct walking, a letter to your local paper. Tell us what you're up for.
Polls open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mountain Time.
Constitutional amendments print near the end. This is the one people miss.
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