{"id":4565,"date":"2015-08-24T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2015-08-24T13:44:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T13:44:43","slug":"new-medical-marijuana-petition-filed-for-oklahoma-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-medical-marijuana-petition-filed-for-oklahoma-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"New Medical Marijuana Petition Filed For Oklahoma Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-medical-marijuana-petition-filed-for-oklahoma-vote\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Supporters of legalizing medical marijuana filed papers with the state Friday indicating their intent to circulate another initiative petition to get the issue on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters need 123,725 signatures for the question to be seen by voters. They will have 90 days after a final determination following a protest period to get the signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters hope to get the question on the November 2016 general election ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahomans for Health circulated a petition last year that fell significantly short of the number of signatures needed.<\/p>\n<p>The current version will be circulated by Green the Vote. The group is based in Tulsa but has a Haskell mailing address.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Caviness of Tulsa, president of Green the Vote, said the two groups are different but that their petitions were similar.<\/p>\n<p>Many members of his group worked on the prior effort to get the issue on the ballot, he said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s completely patient driven,\u201d he said of the effort.<\/p>\n<p>The organization, which has a Facebook page, plans to circulate the petition at state fairs in Tulsa and Oklahoma City as well as at college football games.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot title for the measure would classify marijuana as a herbal drug to be regulated by the Oklahoma Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>It would permit the use of marijuana under the recommendation of a doctor, and it would allow for the sale of marijuana to licensed patients by licensed dispensaries.<\/p>\n<p>Tax proceeds would first go to pay for regulation and then go to the Oklahoma Department of Education and the Oklahoma Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed law would allow for local municipalities to levee additional taxes on medical marijuana to build and repair roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not support legalization of broadly defined \u2018medicinal\u2019 marijuana use that makes it easy for healthy adults and children to find and buy drugs,\u201d Gov. Mary Fallin said in a statement released by her office.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/gallery\/data\/1412\/15693.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Jacob Redmond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/government\/new-medical-marijuana-petition-filed-for-oklahoma-vote\/article_cb45779b-fdcd-53a4-984b-436dc9724ca3.html\" target=\"_blank\">New medical marijuana petition filed for Oklahoma vote &#8211; Tulsa World: Government<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Barbara Hoberock<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"mailto:barbara.hoberock@tulsaworld.com\">barbara.hoberock@tulsaworld.com<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: Brennan Linsley<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tulsa World: Tulsa news, sports, business, entertainment, weather<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of legalizing medical marijuana filed papers with the state Friday indicating their intent to circulate another initiative petition to&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2015\/08\/new-medical-marijuana-petition-filed-for-oklahoma-vote\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1614,9,1,3],"tags":[4182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}