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Attorney General Mike DeWine
Petition for
Medicinal Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Amendment Certified
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—The Ohio Attorney General’s Office today certified the
petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would
legalize marijuana for medicinal and industrial use in the state.
On March 28, 2016, the Attorney General’s Office received a written
petition to amend the Ohio Constitution titled “Medicinal Cannabis and
Industrial Hemp Amendment.” The petition 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, but pursuant to the duties imposed upon the
Attorney General’s Office […] I hereby certify that the summary is a
fair and truthful statement of the proposed law,” Attorney General
DeWine stated in the 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 the amendment petition submitted
can be found at www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov/Petitions.
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