Ohio’s attorney general has approved a recently resubmitted referendum petition to block parts of a restrictive marijuana and hemp law from going into effect after rejecting an initial version he said was “misleading.”
“Having carefully examined this submission, I conclude that the title and summary are fair and truthful statements of the proposed measure,” Attorney General Dave Yost (R) wrote in a letter to the petitioners on Wednesday.
“My certification of the title and summary…should not be construed as an affirmation of the enforceability and constitutionality of the referendum petition,” he said. “My role, as executed here, is limited to determining whether the wording of the title and summary properly advises potential petition signers of a measure’s material components.”
The referendum, led by Ohioans for Cannabis Choice, seeks to repeal key components of a bill the governor recently signed to scale back the state’s voter-approved marijuana law and ban the sale of consumable hemp products outside of licensed cannabis dispensaries.
Yost last month had said an initial submission from the group contained “omissions and misstatements that, as a whole, would mislead a potential signer as to the scope and effect of S.B. 56.” They then submitted the revised version.
Now that
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