“We fully expect to hear that we exceeded the required number of valid signatures,” Tom Haren, spokesperson for The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol told Grown In.
Massachusetts was the only New England state that saw growth of the states Grown In is tracking, while Rhode Island and Maine’s cannabis sales stalled.
An advocacy group seeking to force the state legislature to vote on an adult-use cannabis legalization bill is confident they’ll meet the deadline to gather over 13,000 signatures.
The Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program announced Jan. 27 as the drawing date for the 73 eligible dispensary license applications.
Two dispensaries in Ohio are scheduled for unionization votes in coming weeks as well as a dispensary and a call-in center in Illinois.
The Ohio State Senate passed a cannabis bill that revises the state’s medical marijuana law, expands the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana, and consolidates regulation into a single agency.
By the end of the month, an Ohio adult-use cannabis ballot initiative proposal is expected to obtain enough signatures to force the state legislature to take a vote on legalizing adult-use.
A direct-democracy attempt to force the state legislature to act on recreational marijuana will have enough signatures by the month’s end to set a plan in motion, an organizer projected Friday.
Missouri, has sales numbers that almost rival Ohio’s more mature medical program.
