Yes on HJR 4 — Keep Idaho Drug-Free Yes on HJR 4
On the ballot Tuesday, November 3, 2026

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.

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What HJR 4 does

One sentence, in plain English.

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What happened in Oregon

Passed in 2020. Reversed by 2024.

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What Idaho already says

The constitution’s own words on this.

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The bottom line

Keep drugs out of Idaho. Forever.

  • Nothing new is banned.

    Marijuana and hard drugs are already illegal here. HJR 4 decides who can undo that.

  • Idahoans decide.

    Through legislators you elect and can fire, in hearings open to the public.

  • Out-of-state money can't buy it.

    No signature drive funded from a thousand miles away.

  • It settles the question.

    A statute lasts one session. The constitution holds.

Your ballot, your call

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.

58–10 Idaho House referred it Voted on March 5, 2025 to send the question to Idaho voters, clearing the two-thirds bar required to refer an amendment.
29–6 Idaho Senate agreed Voted the same way on March 11, 2025. Neither chamber can amend the constitution on its own — only voters can.
70% Idahoans said no in 2024 Proposition 1 was rejected 69.6% to 30.4% — the last time an outside-funded campaign asked Idaho to rewrite how it governs itself.

This is the ordinary way Idaho changes its constitution. The last amendment referred to voters, HJR 5, passed with 64.9% in 2024.

Idaho’s own constitution

The first concern of all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people, and the purity of the home. The legislature should further all wise and well directed efforts for the promotion of temperance and morality.

Idaho Constitution — Article III, Section 24

HJR 4 doesn’t invent a new idea. It keeps a duty the constitution already hands to the Legislature.

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

Every year the Board of Pharmacy brings drug scheduling to the Health and Welfare committees, where any Idahoan can testify, before floor votes in both chambers and the governor’s signature. Legalization would travel the same road.

Narrow on purpose

Drug legalization only. Every other ballot subject stays exactly as it is.

Idaho already does this with alcohol

Since 1934 that same section of the constitution has given the Legislature full authority over intoxicating liquors. HJR 4 puts marijuana, narcotics and other psychoactive substances on the same footing.

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.

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  • 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.

61.7% Oklahoma, 2023 Voted down State Question 820. It lost in all 77 counties.
56% Arkansas, 2022 Rejected Issue 4, after legalization backers spent about $13 million.
55% North Dakota, 2022 Rejected legalization — the second time North Dakotans turned it down.
53% South Dakota, 2022 Rejected it again after the 2020 measure was struck down in court.

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.

Follow the money

They can outspend the other side. They still lose.

Legalization campaigns arrive with budgets no local effort can match — and voters keep turning them down anyway.

$150M+ Florida, 2024 Backers put more than $150 million behind Florida’s marijuana amendment, the most expensive legalization campaign in the country since 2010, and most of it came from a single cannabis company. Voters rejected it.
150,000 Signatures gathered here this year An industry-backed medical marijuana initiative collected signatures in all 44 Idaho counties, aiming for this November’s ballot.
18 of 35 The bar it missed Idaho requires signatures from 6% of registered voters in 18 of 35 legislative districts. On July 14, 2026 the Secretary of State ruled the initiative fell short on both the count and the districts.

A campaign like that can lose and simply file again next cycle. HJR 4 settles the question in the constitution instead.

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Tuesday, November 3

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