Dallas Residents Adopt Measure to Decriminalize Marijuana

Dallas residents have voted in favor of 16 out of 18 city charter amendments, including one that would decriminalize marijuana possession in the city, but rejected an amendment to increase the salaries of the city’s mayor and city council members and one that would have created a citizen satisfaction survey to increase the city manager’s annual compensation. 

The Dallas Freedom Act was Proposition R on the November 5 ballot, and it passed by a margin of over 30 points with nearly 229,000 out of the 324,000 voters favoring it. The proposition was added to the ballot through a citizen initiative.