Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment (2015)

Not on Ballot
This measure was not put on an election ballot

The Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment was not on the November 3, 2015 ballot in Ohio as an initiated constitutional amendment. If approved by voters, the measure would have done the following:

• Allowed eligible residents diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition to use, possess, produce and acquire medical cannabis
• Protected eligible residents from discrimination, interference by the state, invasion of privacy and breach of confidentiality regarding their medical use of cannabis
• Protected eligible residents, providers, farmers and others who provide legal access to cannabis from arrest and prosecution
• Allowed eligible residents to access goods and services to enable their therapeutic use of cannabis
• Allowed eligible individuals or organizations to grow, process, distribute, transport, purchase or sell medical cannabis according to rules and regulations established by an Ohio Commission of Cannabis Control
• Allowed residents deemed eligible by the Ohio Department of Agriculture to produce and sell non-psychoactive cannabis, or hemp, for industrial uses such as paper, fuel, foods, building materials and clothing

Text of measure

The summary and full text of the measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Ohio

Petitioners needed to submit 1,000 signatures with the initial petition filing. If the initiative's filing was approved, petitioners would have then needed to collect 305,591 signatures by July 1, 2015, to get the initiative placed on the November 2015 ballot.

See also

Suggest a link

• 2015 ballot measures
• Ohio 2015 ballot measures
• Laws governing the initiative process in Ohio

External links

• Text of Amendment