{"id":74644,"date":"2016-03-22T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=74644"},"modified":"2016-03-22T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T13:22:24","slug":"a-g-rejects-another-medical-mj-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/03\/22\/a-g-rejects-another-medical-mj-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"A-G rejects another medical MJ petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Another week, another medical marijuana petition rejected by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50826\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mike-DeWine-headshot-4-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.\" width=\"175\" height=\"259\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ohio attorney general on Monday rejected\u00a0a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would attempt to legalize marijuana for medical and industrial use in the state.<\/p>\n<p>On March 10, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cMedical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Amendment\u201d from legal counsel representing the\u00a0petitioners. At least 1,000 valid signatures from registered Ohio voters were submitted; however, Attorney General DeWine found at least two defects with the summary language:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The summary language omits references to proposed amendment language that &#8220;industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis shall be researched, regulated, and promoted by the state in a manner substantially similar to other agricultural crops.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The summary language states that the proposed amendment &#8220;provides the right to a fair and transparent licensing process for cannabis-related commerce and provides equal opportunity for access, ownership and employment for all Ohio citizens who have attained the age of 21 years old.&#8221; However, the proposed amendment establishes the age limitation only on licensing and not on receiving &#8220;equal opportunity to access, ownership, and employment.&#8221;<\/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 said in a letter to the petitioners.<\/p>\n<p>The full text of Monday\u2019s letter and of the amendment petitions submitted can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwMzIxLjU2Nzg4NDMxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDMyMS41Njc4ODQzMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3Mjg1ODExJmVtYWlsaWQ9ZWRpdG9yQHRoZXZ3aW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY29tJnVzZXJpZD1lZGl0b3JAdGhldndpbmRlcGVuZGVudC5jb20mZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&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; Another week, another medical marijuana petition rejected by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. The Ohio attorney general on Monday rejected\u00a0a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would attempt to legalize marijuana for medical and industrial use in the state. On March 10, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a [&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-74644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 23:56:29","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\/74644","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=74644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}