Tri-County Board opposes marijuana legalization in Ohio

Working under a tight deadline, the Ohio Ballot Board on Friday approved new language for a marijuana legalization amendment that will appear on ballots as Issue 3. He says he’s glad the court allowed him to keep the word, monopoly, in the title of the summary language.

17, said it can not support Issue 3, the ballot issue that legalizes marijuana, because of significant safety concerns.

The panel made quick work of its review September 18, with a short presentation by legal counsel for the amendment’s proponents and only one question from board members (Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted confirmed the language would not apply retroactively).

The court allowed the ballot issue’s title to stand – “Grants a monopoly for the commercial production and sale of marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes”.

She claimed the proposal will bring 10,000 jobs to Ohio – grow-facility workers, laboratory researchers, retail workers and marijuana product manufacturing workers – based on ResponsibleOhio’s estimates and a third-party estimate by Burke Rosen and Associates, a Cleveland economic analysis firm.

The group filed suit in the Ohio Supreme Court, which earlier this week ordered Husted and the Ballot Board to reconvene and fix what a majority of justices described as “fatal” flaws.

Attorneys for backers and opponents of Issue 3 said they were satisfied with the revisions and found them accurate. “It needed to be changed and today it was”.

“These were mostly reordering some of the language and adding some words to clarify it”, Husted said.

“It is a monopoly”, he said. That was the most important issue to me, because there was an effort to try to hide that fact from the voters.