{"id":66379,"date":"2015-07-30T06:32:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T11:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=66379"},"modified":"2015-07-30T06:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T11:32:04","slug":"a-g-nixes-medical-marijuana-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/07\/30\/a-g-nixes-medical-marijuana-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"A-G nixes medical marijuana amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio Attorney General\u2019s information<\/i><\/p>\n

COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has rejected the petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would attempt to legalize marijuana for medical use in the state.<\/p>\n

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Attorney General Mike DeWine<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On July 20, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cOhio Medical Cannabis Amendment,\u201d from the group Ohio Medical Cannabis Care LLC. A total of 1,000 valid signatures from registered Ohio voters were submitted; however, Attorney General DeWine found at least four defects with the summary language:<\/p>\n

The summary language omits references to amendment language explaining that patient registry cards are automatically accepted if the proposed Ohio Medical Cannabis Commission fails to enact an approval process or to\u00a0respond\u00a0to applications within a specified\u00a0time.<\/p>\n

The summary language omits the reasons listed in the\u00a0amendment\u00a0for which the proposed\u00a0commission may revoke patient registry cards.<\/p>\n

The summary language omits references to amendment language specifying certain actions the proposed commission must take in a certain period of time after the effective date.<\/p>\n

The summary language states that certain individuals administering marijuana to underage patients “shall not be criminalized,” when no such prohibition exists in the amendment language.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor these reasons, I am unable to certify the summary as a fair and truthful statement of the proposed amendment,\u201d DeWine stated in a letter to the petitioners,\u201d DeWine noted.<\/p>\n

The full text of today\u2019s letter and of the amendment petitions submitted can be found at www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov\/BallotInitiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ohio Attorney General\u2019s information COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has rejected the petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would attempt to legalize marijuana for medical use in the state. On July 20, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cOhio Medical […]<\/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-66379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 11:58:12","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\/66379","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=66379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}