Recreational marijuana makes Ohio's Nov. ballot, joining abortion rights amendment

[RandySF]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio voters will decide in November if marijuana should be legal for recreational use.

Sec. of State Frank LaRose announced Wednesday evening that the proposal to legalize weed gained enough valid signatures in their second go to make the ballot.

The statute didn't have enough valid signatures to make the ballot in July. The group, Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, only needed 679 valid signatures but ended up submitting nearly ten times the number of signatures needed during their cure period. The period is a 10-day second chance to make up for invalid signatures.

“We are grateful to the thousands of Ohioans who helped us get to this point and are excited to bring our proposal to regulate marijuana like alcohol before Ohio voters this coming Election Day,” spokesperson Tom Haren said.



https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/politics/ohio-politics/recreational-marijuana-makes-ohios-nov-ballot-joining-abortion-rights-amendment

[SoFlaBro]

1. Time to cram their GQP fuckery right up where the sun don't shine in their assholes sideways.

piss

[Xavier Breath]

2. Unlike the reproductive rights ballot measure though

this won't be written into the Ohio constitution, so any time the Rethug house/senate supermajority wants to overturn it, ol' Mikey will be ready with his pen to do their bidding. I know reaching the signature threshold for a constitutional amendment would have been a tougher hill to climb, but in the end it might have meant less potential heartache.