Group marches across Broadway Bridge for legalized medicinal cannabis

IDAHO FALLS – A group of six people joined together to march across a busy bridge in Idaho Falls to advocate for the right of every Idahoan to seek access to medicinal cannabis.

The protest on Saturday started close to 4:20 p.m. on the eastern side of the Snake River as the group marched across Broadway Street, then down the bridge. Upon reaching Memorial Drive, they went back across the street and back down the bridge, and then three people made that loop again. Even though not many people showed up, the event organizer wasn’t bothered.

“The three people that we did have is more than we would have had five years ago, and it just takes time to get the word across,” said Courtney Anderson, the Idaho Falls team leader for Legalize Idaho.

Sean Crystal, the owner of 710 Spectrum, a hemp-derived cannabis shop in Idaho Falls, was one of the three that went across the bridge a second time, and he added to that statement.

“At the end of the day, honestly, the small movement that you see out at stuff like this is nothing, respective of what the broader movement is,” Crystal said. “There’s hundreds, thousands more that have fear of doing that here in Idaho.”

The protestors cheered back at cars that honked while driving by, holding up signs raising awareness to the broader movement for legalization in the Gem State. Specifically, Anderson said that this protest’s main goal was to raise awareness to Idaho’s House Joint Resolution 4, which will be on the ballot in November 2026.

According to Ballotpedia, HJR 4 would grant the legislature exclusive authority to legalize marijuana, narcotics or other psychoactive substances,” if passed. This would remove the option for citizen-initiated measures to make it onto the ballot and potentially legalize those substances.

“We need to get in there and vote next year and stop this from passing,” Anderson said. “(This is) about everybody. It’s about the government trying to take control over matters that should be in our hands.”

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