Voters in Ohio will have the opportunity this November to make their state the 24th to legalize recreational marijuana.
The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol announced last week that the state has validated 123,367 signatures they submitted for their initiative to legalize marijuana. This put the group just 679 signatures short of the 124,046 signature requirement to put the initiative on the November ballot. However, under state law an initiative campaign who comes up short is given an additional 10 days to collect the needed signatures.
Today the group announced that they have submitted over 6,500 new signatures, nearly 10-times the amount needed.
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