Ohio Issue 3 backers, opponents make final push ahead of marijuana legalization vote

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Will Ohio voters on Tuesday make the Buckeye State the first to go from pot prohibition to a fully legalized marijuana industry?

Or will voters say "no" to letting deep-pocketed campaigns secure future profits for themselves in the Ohio Constitution?

Both sides of the debate are confident they'll win, but the final results are difficult to gauge from polls and early voter turnout numbers.

ResponsibleOhio, the political action committee backing marijuana legalization measure Issue 3, has spent the past week touting the medical marijuana aspect of the proposed constitutional amendment while opponents have pushed back on those claims.

ResponsibleOhio has spent more than $6 million on TV commercials and started running several new ads in these final weeks of the campaign, including spots featuring former boy-band star Nick Lachey and basketball hall-of-famer Oscar Robertson. Those commercials don't mention that Lachey and Robertson are...

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