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Attorney General Mike DeWine
Marijuana
Legalization Amendment Certified
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—The Ohio Attorney General’s Office today certified the
petition for the proposed “Legalize Marijuana and Hemp in Ohio”
amendment to the Ohio Constitution.
On April 28th, the Attorney General’s Office received a written
petition to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled “Legalize Marijuana
and Hemp in Ohio,” from the group Better for Ohio. The submission
was certified today as containing both the necessary 1,000 valid
signatures from registered Ohio voters and a “fair and truthful”
summary of the proposed amendment.
“Without passing upon the advisability of the approval or rejection of
the measure to be referred,…I hereby certify that the summary is a fair
and truthful statement of the proposed law,” Ohio Attorney Mike General
DeWine stated in his certification letter.
Once the summary language and initial signatures are certified, the
Ohio Ballot Board must determine if the amendment contains a single
issue or multiple issues. The petitioners must then collect
signatures for each issue from registered voters in each of 44 of
Ohio’s 88 counties, equal to 5 percent of the total vote cast in the
county for the office of governor at the last gubernatorial
election. Total signatures collected statewide must also equal 10
percent of the total vote cast for the office of governor at the last
gubernatorial election.
The full text of today’s letter and of the amendment petitions
submitted can be found at www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov/BallotInitiatives.
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