Check with NORML, MPP and SAFER websites. They will provide you with all the info you need.

You will have to put it to a referendum, however. A petition will get you nowhere fast. As a referendum of the people the government has no choice but to enact the peoples will. It is a safety valve built into our government for people to bypass our elected representatives for issues that we feel are too important to be left to them and that we feel should go to direct vote. All we would need is enough signatures and it goes to ballot.

I live in Florida so let me know if you do anything with it.