Ohioans for Cannabis Choice begins collecting signatures for referendum before March 19 deadline
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.”
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/11/ohioans-for-cannabis-choice-begins-collecting-signatures-for-referendum-before-march-19-deadline/
