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COLUMBUS — The Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office on Thursday certified a resubmitted petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution which would attempt to legalize marijuana in the state.<\/p>\n
On April 30, the\u00a0Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition\u00a0to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled “Marijuana Rights and Regulations” from legal counsel for the petitioning\u00a0committee. The initial submission was rejected on April 9, due to deficiencies in the petition summary. The resubmitted petition was certified on Thursday as containing both the necessary 1,000 valid signatures from registered Ohio voters and a \u201cfair and truthful\u201d summary of the proposed amendment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout 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\u2019s Office [\u2026] I hereby certify that the summary is a fair and truthful statement of the proposed law,\u201d Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine stated in the certification letter.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0The petitioners must then collect signatures for each issue from registered voters in each of 44 of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties, equal to 5 percent of the total vote cast in the county for the office of governor at the last gubernatorial election.\u00a0Total signatures collected statewide must also equal 10 percent of the total vote cast for the office of governor at the last gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n