{"id":129163,"date":"2020-03-11T06:38:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=129163"},"modified":"2020-03-11T06:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:38:34","slug":"ohio-a-g-rejects-pot-amendment-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/03\/11\/ohio-a-g-rejects-pot-amendment-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio A-G rejects pot amendment language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office has rejected the summary language for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would make changes to Ohio\u2019s marijuana laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 2, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition&nbsp;to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cAn Amendment to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol,\u201d from the attorney representing the petitioning&nbsp;committee. The attorney general\u2019s role is to determine whether the petition summary is a fair and truthful representation of the proposed amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDAzMTAuMTg0OTMzMjEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5vaGlvYXR0b3JuZXlnZW5lcmFsLmdvdi9nZXRhdHRhY2htZW50LzM2OGVmYWQ4LWE4NmMtNGRlOC1iZmUzLTY5ODkzNmU3M2I0NC9Bbi1BbWVuZG1lbnQtdG8tUmVndWxhdGUtTWFyaWp1YW5hLUxpa2UtQWxjb2hvbC5hc3B4In0.GH60SNqilQYeKyEog9wJzy5qwDJ8vjmc69ujIoGslAc\/br\/75923327397-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">response letter<\/a>&nbsp;sent to the petitioners states: \u201cSection (A) of the proposed amendment lists several findings and declarations that the amendment proposes to be made by \u2018the people of the state of Ohio.\u2019 The summary makes no mention of these findings and declarations. Thus, it completely fails to inform a potential signer that the amendment elevates these \u2018findings and declarations\u2019 to a constitutional standard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpon reviewing Section (A) of the proposed amendment and comparing it to the summary language, I am unable to certify the summary as a fair and truthful representation of the proposed amendment,\u201d Attorney General Dave Yost said in the letter rejecting the petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full text of the letter to petitioners and the petition can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDIsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDAzMTAuMTg0OTMzMjEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5vaGlvYXR0b3JuZXlnZW5lcmFsLmdvdi9QZXRpdGlvbnMifQ.AhbYKmjjHy4ic1TvGg5Evg1shGY4shuMpoIkHKlXFXM\/br\/75923327397-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov\/Petitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office has rejected the summary language for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would make changes to Ohio\u2019s marijuana laws. On March 2, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition&nbsp;to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cAn Amendment to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol,\u201d from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 03:27:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}