{"id":74317,"date":"2016-03-12T07:22:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T12:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=74317"},"modified":"2016-03-12T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T12:23:26","slug":"dewine-rejects-medical-marijuana-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/03\/12\/dewine-rejects-medical-marijuana-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"DeWine rejects medical marijuana petition"},"content":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n

COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Friday 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

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

On March 3, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cMedical Use of Marijuana\u201d from the group Ohioans for Medical Marijuana. 1,000 valid signatures from registered Ohio voters were submitted. However, Attorney General DeWine found at least three defects with the summary language:<\/p>\n

The summary language states “no more than 15 type 1 medical marijuana cultivation facility licenses” shall be issued. However, the proposed amendment contains provisions for issuing additional licenses.<\/p>\n

The summary language states that the amendment may not be construed to prevent a person from being penalized for “operating a motor vehicle,\u00a0aircraft, train, or motorboat while impaired by marijuana[.]\u201d\u00a0However, the proposed\u00a0amendment contains language which states qualifying patients\u00a0\u201cshall not be considered to be impaired by marijuana or marijuana products solely because of the presence of metabolites or components of marijuana that appear in insufficient concentration to cause impairment[.]\u201d<\/p>\n

The summary language states there shall be additional ways to obtain valid registry identification card under certain conditions after July 1, 2017. However, the proposed amendment lists that date as August 1, 2017.<\/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.<\/p>\n

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

VW independent\/submitted information COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Friday rejected the petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would attempt to legalize marijuana for medical use in the state. On March 3, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cMedical Use […]<\/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-74317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 21:22:24","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\/74317","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=74317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}