A deadline for the Ohio General Assembly to pass a bill based on a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana is likely to come and go without action. Backers expect they’ll begin gathering signatures to try to get on the Nov. ballot as initiated statue.
On Friday, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol coalition can begin gathering signatures from some 125,000 registered Ohio voters, said Tom Haren, a Cleveland attorney who represents several medical marijuana businesses that are behind the campaign.
Recreational marijuana would be taxed at 10%, in addition to state and local sales taxes. Revenues from the 10% tax would go to funds to support jobs and economic development, funding and treatment for cannabis addiction and other substance addictions and defraying the costs of regulation and administering the tax.
“It is terrible policy our members and the president don’t support,” said John Fortney, a spokesman for Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman, a Lima Republican.
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