If the "Protect Public Health" group actually believed in their own rhetoric, they might realize their own initiative would be just as frivolous. Quick civics fact. The US Federal Constitution demands that all states within the union be a Republic. Initiatives by their very design bypass the checks and balances that define a Republic, and in fact promote the very democracy that the Constitution was to supposed to rid us of in the first place. Read the Constitution. Even an elementary school child can comprehend it. Maybe its time we adults follow suit.