An organization based out of Washington D.C. would like to add a medical cannabis amendment on Ohio’s ballot in November. Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), which was started in 1995, would like to propose a constitutional amendment that would set up a medicinal pot program like the systems in the states that have already allowed fro medical marijuana. The group has had much successful cannabis advocacy efforts in Michigan, Montana, and Arizona. Also, MPP works with state legislatures in order to work on medical marijuana reform.
“It’s really about time,” Mason Tvert, a spokesperson for MPP, said. “We just can’t wait any longer.”
For Tvert, the amendment to allow medical cannabis is much more meaningful than any old legislation. According to Tvert, his grandmother was suffering from both cancer and arthritis. He hoped that Ohio would legalize medicinal marijuana after his grandmother saw how much help it was to others after having visited Arizona. As a result, she passed away in April.
“She had to suffer,” he stated. “We don’t want to see other seriously ill Ohioans suffering any longer.”
Ohioans did not approve of Issue 3 last year, which would have legalized both medical and recreational marijuana last. Although 65% of voters did not approve of the amendment, a poll released by Quinnipiac University a month prior to the election, showed that ninety percent of voters supported the use of medicinal cannabis.
The issue was scolded because it would have resulted in an oligopoly, which would have limited Ohio’s marijuana-cultivation market to only ten investor groups who funded the amendment. MPP did not back ResponsibleOhio, the political action committee supporting Issue 3, during their campaign in 2015. Following the election in November, state lawmakers stated that they would study the topic of medical marijuana have made a team of “state lawmakers, business group leaders and law enforcement groups” to do so.
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