Why reinvent the wheel? All you have to do is join MPP, NORML and/or SAFER. They are using voter referendums to bypass the governments corruption and force the issue. Petitions, like Dutch Masta said, just piss them off and get ignored. Voter referendums, however, use the law to make them comply with the voters will.

A petition can be ignored. A referendum becomes the law. I like it because our officials are forced to uphold the very law they hated and fought.

These organizations are where every positive change in the marijuana laws have come from. Just like they taught in the military, reinforce success to achieve your objective.