Letter - Ohio's Medical Marijuana Law Needs Amendments

Katelyn Baker

Well-Known Member
On June 8, Gov. Kasich signed into law HB 523, allowing very limited use of medicinal marijuana. This bill allows only 20 conditions, including 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 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 of 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 has already 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 Grassroots Ohio – An Amendment For Individual Rights and print a petition.

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

Thank you for your support.

- Pepper Allen

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