State Pot Legalization Didn't Go Far Enough, Support Grassroots Effort

[Katelyn Baker]

To the Editor: On June 8, Ohio Gov. Kasich signed into law House Bill 523, allowing very limited use of medicinal marijuana. This bill allows only 20 medical conditions, no home grow, no smoking of dried flower (only vaporization).

This type of limited bill will encourage people to stay in the underground market. Patients and caregivers testified repeatedly for the need for home growing of five plants. Patients who currently qualify for these conditions are on Medicaid/Medicare mostly and will not be able to afford medicinal cannabis.

The need for comprehensive "rights-based" language can be attained with the current ballot initiative MCIH, Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp, supported by Grassroots Ohioans. This amendment allows for personal cultivation, possession and use for medicinal purposes PLUS the added right for farmers in Ohio to grow industrial hemp. Commercial taxation and regulations will be left to the state. This is an amendment to the state constitution. The amendment language already has been approved by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. With your help, we can collect the needed 305,000 signatures to have the MCIH on the 2017 ballot. Please go to the website Grassroots Ohio – An Amendment For Individual Rights and print a petition.

You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter, Grassroots Ohioans.

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[OlderGrower]

so now we only need 304,999 more people to sign the petition. The sad part is even if they were allowed to home grow, there still would be that small segment of people on medicare who could not even afford to do that to get their meds. I know growing is not cheap but I sure wish a few more growers would be a little more generous with their harvests. Not asking them to give away all of it like I do but a small % would not kill them and it could make a huge difference in someones life. It is sad that the standard in America is Greed. I know not everyone is but it sure appears to be the standard.