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Sensible Toledo - Marijuana Ballot Issue 1
Special to The Truth
The
Sensible Toledo Campaign along with NWO-NORML, the
University of Toledo Libertarian Party and the University of
Toledo Students for a Sensible Drug Policy are hosting a
community forum to allow the public to ask questions about
what decriminalization will mean to the citizens of Toledo.
Issue 1, on the September 15 ballot, affects Toledo only and
is a decriminalization effort not statewide legalization.
The forum will be held September 11, 2015 from 6 p.m. to 8
p.m. at the Nitschke Auditorium, 1610 N. Westwood Ave., in
the College of Engineering on the Campus of the University
of Toledo. The forum will include a panel of experts from
the fields of law enforcement, civil liberties, medicine,
pharmacology, addiction, and patient advocacy. It is open to
the public and voters in Toledo are especially encouraged to
attend.
The panel consists of retired Toledo Police Sergeant, Lou
Vasquez; Dr. John Ross, Associate Clinical Professor of
Medicine, UTMC and practicing physician; Theresa Daniello of
Ohio Family CANN and president of the TDCANN Institute;
Frank Hall, Ph.D, assistant professor of Pharmacology and
Experimental Therapeutics in the College of Pharmacy at the
University of Toledo and Gary Daniels, chief lobbyist for
the ACLU of Ohio.
Vasquez served with the Toledo Police Department for 39
years and worked in communications, vice, drug task force
and crimes against persons sections
Dr. Ross is currently the medical director of Outpatient
Internal Medicine Clinic at St. Vincent Mercy Medical
Center.
Daniello is a cannabis policy expert and a director with
Ohio Families CANN and president of TDCANN Institute.
Hall is the author of over 100 scientific publications and a
fellow with the International Behavioral Neuroscience
Society.
Daniels has worked for the ACLU of Ohio for 15 years in the
position of litigation coordinator.
The event will be moderated by Ken Sharp of the Sensible
Toledo Campaign. Of the event, Sharp said: “We hope that the
citizens of Toledo will come with their concerns and
questions before entering the voting booth. We want an
informed electorate.”
The forum will be a town hall style with the majority
devoted to audience questions.
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