For the next seven months, a few groups will be circulating petitions, trying to get enough valid signatures to put specific issues on the 2018 general ballot. Advocates of Congressional redistricting reform are hoping to get a plan before voters next fall. But Ohio lawmakers are trying to pass their own plan through the legislature and put it on the ballot in May.A full out legalization of marijuana might also be on the ballot. Jimmy Gould, backer of the plan voters rejected in 2015, says it’s needed because he says Ohio’s current medical marijuana program is flawed.
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