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Posted: Aug 31, 2016 10:42 AMUpdated: Aug 31, 2016 12:39 PM

Marijuana Rally

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Ben Nicholas

A group supporting a state question to allow medicinal marijuana in Oklahoma is rallying at the state capitol. The group, Oklahomans for Change, wants elected officials, like Governor Mary Fallin and Attorney General Scott Pruitt, to know there is support for legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes.

More than 100 people were chanting “let us vote” during the rally in the building’s second floor rotunda. Supporters have been critical of Pruitt’s rewrite of the language that will appear on the ballot after a pro-marijuana group gathered more than 67,000 signatures within 90 days to qualify the question for the ballot.

State officials say the group waited too long to get the question on the November ballot, so the proposal likely won’t appear until 2018.

 


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