CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost approved the petition summary language submitted by Ohioans for Cannabis Choice for voters to say no to SB 56, which includes sections 1, 2 and 3 ,which authorizes changes to the state’s homegrown, medical, and adult-use marijuana laws.

Read petition below:

Ohioans for Cannabis Choice will begin collecting signatures to put the law before voters in November.

“We are ready to hit the streets and begin collecting 250,000 valid signatures because we know voters will say no to SB 56 because it is government overreach. The people spoke in 2023 when they overwhelmingly voted to legalize cannabis, and we are going to allow them to speak once again this November by voting no on SB 56,” said Joseph Ellwood, a petitioner and hemp farmer in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

“My certification. . . should not be construed as an affirmation of the enforceability and constitutionality of the referendum petition,” Attorney General Dave Yost wrote in the letter certifying the petition.

To move forward, petitioners must gather signatures from registered voters in at least 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties. In each of those counties, the number of valid signatures must equal at least 3% of the total votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Statewide, the total number of valid signatures must equal 6% of that same vote total.

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