A proposal to legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio has enough valid signatures to go in front of voters in November, the state’s top elections official said Wednesday.
Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) informed the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in a letter that he would direct county boards of election to place the measure on the ballot “in the absence of judicial direction to the contrary.”
Supporters of the legalization effort were told in late July they were 679 signatures short of the roughly 124,000—equal to 1.5% of the total vote in the last gubernatorial election—they needed for ...