Ohioans For Cannabis Choice Begins Collecting Signatures For Referendum Before March 19 Deadline
They need more than 248,000 signatures to get on the Nov. 3 ballot
Ohioans for Cannabis Choice are starting to collect signatures to get a referendum on the ballot to block a new law that will change the state’s voter-passed recreational marijuana law and ban intoxicating hemp products. But they are up against a March 19 deadline.
They need more than 248,000 signatures to get on the Nov. 3 ballot. The group will also need 3% of an individual county’s gubernatorial turnout in 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties.
Despite the looming deadline, Joey Ellwood, a hemp farmer in Tuscarawas County, is confident they will get the needed signatures to get the referendum on the ballot.
“We have a ground swell and folks are angry,” he said. “(Politicians) hate the fact that people spoke and now they’re trying to re-criminalize cannabis and ban products, and we’re not going to stand for that.”
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost initially rejected the referendum’s summary language, but approved it last week after Ohioans for Cannabis Choice made changes to the language.
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