Voters in 20 U.S. states could potentially legalize some form of cannabis use in the November 2016 election — part of a historic backlash to the century-old war on marijuana.

According to Ballotpedia, the encyclopedia of American politics, activists have submitted ballot measures for public vote in: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

LAGRANGE, Ga. -- Vince and Michelle Seivert's teenage daughter is epileptic.

From their kitchen table in rural LaGrange, they talked to WXIA's Chris Hopper about the difficulties they face getting the cannabis oil they say has dramatically reduced her seizures.

Miranda's parents said before taking cannabis oil, she had 12 to 20 seizures a day. Since, she's reportedly down to four a month.

While Miranda can legally use and possess cannabis oil here in Georgia, the problem is getting the oil back to Georgia legally.

Four times a year, they pack their bags and fly to Colorado where the marijuana costs less to buy than their plane tickets to get there.

They then have to illegally ship it or carry the oil back in their luggage.

The effort to expand Georgia’s medical marijuana law continued Friday to receive pointed criticism, as supporters struggle to gain support from the state’s law enforcement community.

Chuck Spahos, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, testified during a brief hearing before the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee that he believes House Bill 722 would too broad and, in some spots, contradictory toward its goal of allowing Georgia manufacturers to grow and cultivate medical marijuana in-state under strict controls.

Families share stories of how cannabis oil has alleviated their children’s suffering—but lawmakers remained worried that stoners will take over the state

Abby Conforti was two years old when she was diagnosed with severe autism. Shortly after her third birthday, she began repeatedly biting her right arm and violently screaming. Jennifer and Bryan Conforti characterized their daughter’s meltdowns as “demonic,” and said they were afraid to hold their child. “My arms are covered with bruises and cuts from her trying to rip my arms off of her,” Jennifer said last month. “If she can’t bite herself, she’ll bite us.”

Mom says those horrible raging episodes her daughter used to suffer from are now gone and she hasn't had to restrain her daughter since she started her on the medical marijuana back in October.

ATLANTA — The mother of an autistic child went before Georgia lawmakers Monday, admitting she broke the law to get relief for her daughter.

Channel 2’s Lori Geary sat in on the first hearing of Georgia’s new medical marijuana bill that would allow the growing of medical marijuana in Georgia and expand the number of conditions patients need to qualify, including Alzheimer’s disease and autism.

Jennifer Conforti testified that she gets marijuana on the black market and turns it into cannabis oil for her 5-year-old daughter.

Everyone wants to get in on the marijuana business. States are making it legal and business is booming. Many entrepreneurial ventures can be started from merchandise to accessories to marijuana itself; many millionaires will be minted. Founders Fund, a major institutional funding company, and Privateer Holdings have invested in a Canadian medical growing facility, Leafly, and Marley Natural which grows recreational strains branded with Bob Marley’s name. MedMen marijuana (operational) consulting firm raised over $3.7 million from large institutional investors. British pharmaceutical giant GW has marijuana stock available as an investment opportunity.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) – State Sen. Harold Jones II, D – Augusta, filed a bill this week that would make possession of marijuana a misdemeanor regardless of the amount.

Senate Bill 254 says that all possession of marijuana offenses will be treated as a misdemeanor. The punishment would be a maximum fine of $1,000, and a maximum term of one year in jail.

Sen. Jones says he thinks the current law is too harsh.

"There's so many rights that you lose, so many opportunities you lose on,” Jones said. “Of course you can lose the right to vote, the other thing, if you're in college, you could lose potential scholarships.”

“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?” – Henry David Thoreau

Witnessing the slavery and imperialism being carried out by government during the mid-nineteenth century, Henry David Thoreau was compelled to apply his transcendental philosophy to challenge the fallacies of the state. Civil Disobedience is one of the greatest American texts, and was a prime influence for Martin Luther King, Jr., who said, “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

ATLANTA — More than 100 legislators have signed onto a measure to expand the state’s medical marijuana law and allow for production of cannabis oil in Georgia.

Moultrie Rep. Sam Watson isn’t among them.

Watson voted for a bill last year, the Haleigh’s Hope Act, that allows Georgians with a qualifying condition to possess medical cannabis oil.

Georgians who use the oil in Georgia still risk arrest when transporting it here because cannabis and its extracts are still deemed illegal under federal law.

But Watson says he’s reluctant to expand Georgia’s law. The vegetable farmer said he has plenty of questions about, among other things, how the oil would be produced.

Macon Republican Allen Peake isn't the only state lawmaker pushing marijuana bills during this year's legislative session.

Peake's proposal, HB-722, would allow the cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana in Georgia. But Georgia lawmakers also face six other drug related proposals ranging from making marijuana possession a misdemeanor to outright legalization of marijuana use in the state.

Senate Bill 254, sponsored by Lowndes County Republican John Colbert, would reduce a possession of marijuana charge from a felony to a misdemeanor for first-time offenders. It also removes the current provision that makes possession of less than ounce of marijuana a misdemeanor.