Ohio officials have unanimously approved ballot language for an initiative to legalize marijuana that will appear before voters on the November election.
At a hearing on Thursday, the Ohio Ballot Board voted 5-0 to adopt a summary that was drafted in the past week by the secretary of state’s office, which recently certified that advocates had turned in enough valid signatures to qualify for ballot placement. The board approved the text without discussion. No supporters or opponents testified at the meeting.
The text of the approved summary language for the initiative—designated as Issue 2—says the measure would legalize and regulate “the cultivation, processing, sale, purchase, possession, home grow, and use of cannabis by adults at least twenty-one years of age.”
It explains that a Division of Cannabis Control would be created to “regulate, investigate, and penalize adult use cannabis operators, adult use testing laboratories, and individuals required to be licensed.”
Further, the summary describes how the initiative would establish a social equity program, protect the identities of people who participate in the adult-use market, maintain employers’ and landlords’ rights to prohibit cannabis use “in certain circumstances,” protect financial institutions that work with licensed marijuana businesses and impose a tax on
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