Ohio’s attorney general has rejected activists’ referendum petition to block parts of a restrictive marijuana and hemp law from going into effect, saying its summary is “misleading” and must be revised in order to proceed.
“Upon review of the summary, we identified omissions and misstatements that, as a whole, would mislead a potential signer as to the scope and effect of S.B. 56,” Attorney General Dave Yost (R) wrote in a letter to the petitioners on Tuesday.
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.
The group submitted an initial batch of 1,000 signatures to get the referendum process started last month.
Yost said that several aspects of the petition summary are misleading.
For example it contains “two very similar descriptions” of the definition of hemp, the attorney general said, meaning that “a potential signer would likely be misled as to the character and import of this definition.”
The submission also “inaccurately” states that SB 56 “permits delivery of adult use cannabis,” Yost said. “Nowhere in the bill is
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