Ohio voters reject amendment to legalize marijuana

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Voters in Ohio rejected an amendment on Tuesday that would have legalized marijuana for medical and recreational use.

With 72 percent of the statewide vote counted, the amendment was being trounced 65 percent to 35 percent, losing in all 88 counties. Curt Steiner, campaign director for Ohioans Against Marijuana Monopolies, said: "Issue 3 was nothing more and nothing less than a business plan to seize control of the recreational marijuana market in Ohio." He said Ohio voters were not fooled by "slick ads, fancy but deceptive mailings, [and] phony claims about tax revenues."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.