Almost 42 percent of voters cast ballots in Tuesday’s election

More than 383,000 of the almost 484,000 absentee ballots requested have been cast. A few of the investors behind Issue 3 said they might do it again, with perhaps a different structure. She said she doesn’t use marijuana but saw how it helped her sister while she was being treated for cancer.

“I love democracy because people to get speak”.

Calvina Fay, executive director of Drug Free America Foundation, acknowledged the role that the wording of Issue 3 had in its defeat. The retired school principal said he thinks marijuana should be legalized in the USA, but opposes the idea of monopolies having control of the business. But he doesn’t like Ohio’s issue. Leaders in the Republican-controlled Legislature also say it is bad public policy.

A further example of their cluelessness was their use of a colorfully decorated bus and a silly mascot named “Buddy” – a sort of superhero with a big marijuana bud for the head – in a state-wide tour, as their primary tactic for getting the youth vote energized and excited about the upcoming chance to legalize marijuana.

“We’ve heard the voters”, he said.

“Whether they work out in your favor or not, you should still do what you think is right”. The seat then will be up for grabs for a full term during the November general election. “Voters should not have to relive the delays and long lines of years past or technical glitches that force them to vote provisionally”.

The defeat came even as voters, both in Ohio and nationwide, voice their support for pot legalization.

ResponsibleOhio’s proposed constitutional amendment would have legalized marijuana for personal or recreational use, as well as for medical purposes, with the production, processing and sale regulated by a state-appointed commission.

Husted said there was still time to drop off absentee ballots.

Those measures also won’t suffer from the same market restrictions that hamstrung the Ohio effort, advocates said.

House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger (R., Clarksville) said a “conversation” over medical marijuana is under way in his chamber, but recreational use is not on the table. Forty-year-old Beth Zielenski said she thought a lot of things need to be worked out first on regulation. Zielenski says the possibility of legalization “does worry me”.

Timothy Shearer, 47, said he voted for the initiative. Shearer described himself as a “military guy” who has never used marijuana.

Election sites opened their doors at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Ohio, considered a bellwether politically because the presidential candidate who wins that state often captures the election, would have been the first Midwest state to legalize recreational marijuana, joining Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia.

The redistricting measure would establish a new system for drawing state legislative districts in the battleground state.

Eligible Ohioans headed to the polls today to decide whether to allow marijuana to be grown, processed and consumed within the state’s borders.