Supporters submitted hundreds of thousands of signatures to let Ohioans choose if recreational marijuana should be legal; advocates now have to wait to see if they make it on the November ballot.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Supporters submitted hundreds of thousands of signatures to let Ohioans choose if recreational marijuana should be legal, but with how easy it is to have petitions thrown away for little mistakes, advocates now have to wait two weeks to see if they make it on the November ballot.
This proposal would also impose a 10% tax at the point of sale for each transaction, which activists say would raise $350 to $400 million in new tax revenue annually. Gary Wolske, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio and a retired Garfield Heights lieutenant, was astonished by this argument.
Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights held a robust 12-week campaign where organizers were constantly posting on social media, reaching out to the news, holding information sessions and explaining to Ohioans when and where they could sign up. They had tables at events, made phone calls and went into neighborhoods to collect signatures."The reproductive freedom amendment, that needed over 400,000 signatures — they came in with somewhat over 700,000," Entin said.
Evidently, the coalition was able to get double the signatures they needed without the use of social media or ads, but this raised some questions for people in support and against the marijuana ballot.
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