The Ohio Ballot Board on Thursday certified the proposed constitutional amendment, known as the "Medicinal Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Amendment," as a single ballot issue, according the Ohio Secretary of State's office.
The Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Amendment would allow adults 21 or older to use marijuana for medicinal purposes and allow farmers to grow industrial hemp.
Petitioners now have to collect 305,591 signatures to place the certified amendment on the ballot. This equals 10 percent of the votes cast for governor in 2014.
As part of the total number of signatures needed to place the measure on the ballot, petitioners must also have collected signatures from at least 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties, and within each of those counties, collect enough signatures equal to five percent of the total vote cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election, which was in 2014.
