State lawyers continued work Tuesday on an analysis that will help determine the future of proposals that would make it easier to smoke marijuana and tougher to light up cigarettes in Nevada.
Renee Parker, chief deputy secretary of state, said the proposals have enough valid signatures under one standard that has been followed until now in her office -- but the legal analysis being done by the attorney general's office could change that.
The attorney general's opinion could increase the minimum number of signatures needed by the petitioners -- which until now has been 51,337, or 10 percent of the vote in the 2002 general election.
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