“Where’s our money? I worked really hard, and I want to be paid in full.”
By Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal
Petitioners who tried to get a hemp and marijuana referendum on Ohio’s November ballot are saying they either never got paid or only got partially paid for the signatures they collected.
Lisa Flagella and Amanda Ward say they—along with several other petitioners—did not get paid for the signatures they collected for the Ohio Senate Bill 56 referendum effort.
The referendum would have overturned the lawmaker-passed overhaul of the adult-use marijuana law passed by voters in 2023. Ultimately the referendum effort did not gather enough signatures to move forward within the necessary timeline for the ballot.
Thomas Miller and Pat Manning said they only got partially paid for the signatures they collected.
“We made the decision at one point in the campaign to suspend paid signature collection as we assessed how many signatures we had collected at that point because we did have a large grass roots movement of unpaid volunteers collecting signatures,” Dennis Williard, campaign spokesperson, said in an email.
Ohioans for Cannabis Choice had more than 5,000 people and businesses pledge to sign, collect, or host places where
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