{"id":74565,"date":"2016-03-19T07:25:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=74565"},"modified":"2016-03-19T07:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T12:25:18","slug":"dewine-rejects-fourth-marijuana-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/03\/19\/dewine-rejects-fourth-marijuana-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"DeWine rejects fourth marijuana petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Friday rejected the fourth petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would attempt to legalize marijuana for medical use in the state.<\/p>\n<p>On March 8, 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, the fourth submission of such a titled amendment by this group. 1,000 valid signatures from registered Ohio voters were submitted. However, Attorney General DeWine found at least 11 defects with the summary language:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52811\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mike-DeWine-headshot-200px-6-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney General Mike DeWine\" width=\"200\" height=\"314\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Attorney General Mike DeWine<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The summary language states in the amendment that &#8220;medical cannabis&#8221; can only be provided to individuals &#8220;with a qualified medical condition.&#8221; However, the proposed amendment does not limit qualifying medical patients to those with a qualified medical condition but more broadly to those &#8220;with a disease or pain from a disease.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The summary language states that there shall be no limit on the number of patients with a &#8220;qualified medical.&#8221; However, the proposed amendment states that there will be &#8220;no limit on patients with a medical condition as recommended by their doctor\/practitioner for the use of medical cannabis.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The summary language fails to make clear, aside from a passing reference, that the proposed amendment creates a new state agency called the Ohio Department of Medical Cannabis.<\/li>\n<li>The summary language states that registration fees shall be paid to the Ohio Medical Cannabis Commission\u00a0(OMCC) and &#8220;after that it will be paid to the Department of Medical Cannabis.&#8221; \u00a0However, the proposed amendment states all fees shall be paid to the OMCC.<\/li>\n<li>The summary language states that two of the\u00a0seven\u00a0OMCC commissioners shall be appointed &#8220;by the first five appointed commissioners. However, the proposed amendment does not contain that provision.<\/li>\n<li>The summary language appears to prohibit signage on testing facilities and dispensaries containing cannabis leaf or green cross.\u00a0However, the proposed amendment instead limits signage to the use of a cannabis leaf or green cross.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The summary language fails to reference a provision in the proposed amendment that &#8220;dispensaries and CCC will be the only companies that will be allowed to have a sign on their outside building with a green cross or cannabis leaf, per local code.<\/li>\n<li>The summary language states that the OMCC &#8220;shall have the right to inspect all locations &#8230; at any time.&#8221; However, the proposed amendment limits inspections to &#8220;before issuing a registry card\/registry certificate.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The summary language states that persons over the age of 21 must obtain a registration card or certificate from the OMCC in order to grow medical cannabis. However, the proposed amendment states that all patients over the age of 21 &#8220;possess the right to grow medical cannabis.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The summary language states that, among other entities, a &#8220;County or State Medical Assistance Program&#8221; cannot be required to &#8220;reimburse a patient for the cost &#8230; associated with the use of Medical Cannabis.&#8221; However, the proposed amendment does not include any reference to County Medical Assistance Programs.<\/li>\n<li>The summary language states &#8220;all agents or persons transporting usable cannabis or cannabis produces must have documentation and a registry card from the OMCC.&#8221; However, the proposed amendment does not include a requirement for a registry card in order to transport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\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. DeWine rejected submissions on July 29, 2015; October 2, 2015; and January 22 of this year on similar grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The full text of today\u2019s letter and of the amendment petitions submitted can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwMzE4LjU2NzI2MTkxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDMxOC41NjcyNjE5MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3Mjg1MjI2JmVtYWlsaWQ9ZWRpdG9yQHRoZXZ3aW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY29tJnVzZXJpZD1lZGl0b3JAdGhldndpbmRlcGVuZGVudC5jb20mZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov\/Petitions\">www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov\/Petitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Friday rejected the fourth petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would attempt to legalize marijuana for medical use in the state. On March 8, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cOhio [&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-74565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 07:46:54","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\/74565","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=74565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}