COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Patients and their families who are backing a medical marijuana ballot issue in Ohio said Wednesday that the proposed constitutional amendment offers a quicker and more effective way for them to get relief than legislation.
Two patients with debilitating illnesses and the mother of a boy with brain cancer appeared at a news conference to support the ballot proposal by Ohioans for Medical Marijuana to legalize medicinal cannabis. They said the measure should go forward even if state lawmakers pass a medical marijuana bill that's been fast-tracked in the Ohio House.
The mother, Dana Kovach, of St. Clairsville, said that she had high hopes for the legislation but that final language didn't provide needed protections to caregivers and too narrowly limited the types of cannabis that would be available.
"I put my heart and soul into that legislation. I prayed that the state of Ohio would not disappoint, that they would listen to the patients after all this time and after all of those task force hearings," she said. "I thought for sure they had heard us."
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