COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Supporters spent more than $21 million on a losing fall campaign to legalize marijuana in Ohio for personal and medical use, campaign finance reports filed Friday show.

Most of the nearly $12 million ResponsibleOhio raised from July to October came from 10 companies or organizations listed under corporate names, according to the figures reported to the Secretary of State's office. About 250 people gave individual contributions during the period. Their contributions of $2 to $200 totaled less than $8,000.

Filing final campaign-finance reports Friday, the private investor group that pushed marijuana legalization this year in Ohio spent more than $17 a vote in its losing effort for Issue 3, while opponents spent less than a dollar a vote to defeat the measure.The campaign was the most expensive marijuana issue in the nation's history.

ResponsibleOhio and Ohioans Against Marijuana Monopolies turned in the last official paperwork of the 2015 campaign to the Ohio secretary of state. The documents illustrated the unusual election’s counterintuitive result: In politics, the team with the most money usually wins – but not for Issue 3.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The group behind Ohio's failed marijuana initiative spent $21.5 million on its campaign, which was almost entirely funded by investors who stood to make millions from the measure's passage.

Backers of the move to legalize marijuana in Ohio outspent opponents by 10-to-1 and still saw their campaign busted by voters.

Bankrolled almost exclusively by investors in a planned monopoly of 10 growing sites, ResponsibleOhio shelled out $21.8 million, campaign finance reports due Friday show.

In contrast, Ohioans Against Marijuana Monopolies spent $2.17 million.

Put another way, pot advocates spent $18.70 for each vote, opponents spent $1.06.

The proposed constitutional amendment, which also would have allowed individuals to have a small number of home-grown plants, drew opposition from nearly 64 percent of Ohio voters in November’s general election.

Some have characterized the loss of the marijuana legalization initiative in Ohio as an indicator of lack of support for the issue. However, what the defeat of the initiative reveals is the intent of citizens not just to make “pot” legal, but to do it right. In fact, the lack of support for the initiative indicated an unwillingness to carry forward an exploitive model from prohibition into the legal market.

Ten investment groups were behind the Ohio initiative and were its beneficiaries. The title of the initiative called the business model a “monopoly.” We can’t know how a different model might have fared, but it has been widely reported that large numbers of those in Ohio who support legalization couldn’t support the “monopoly” created by this initiative.

An Ohio military officer was dismissed after he a symbol on his uniform that upheld legalizing pot in a state.

Vermilion Mayor Eileen Bulan pronounced that Captain Michael Reinheimer pennyless departmental manners by campaigning on a domestic emanate while on avocation during a military auction.

While those of us in the Illinois cannabis community are celebrating the rolling out of the Medical Cannabis Pilot Program, a woman in Kansas, Shona Banda, is suffering greatly because she just happens to live in a state where marijuana cannabis is illegal. In fact, she is being depicted as a criminal when she is merely trying to save her own life in order to parent her children. Is that too much to ask?

Since 1985 cigarette packages sold in the United States have carried four rotating warnings from the surgeon general, including this one: “Smoking by Pregnant Women May Result in Fetal Injury, Premature Birth, and Low Birth Weight.” Since 1989 the labels of alcoholic beverages have included this government-mandated warning: “According to the Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects.” This week the American Medical Association (AMA) proposed a similar

VERMILION, Ohio — A police officer fired after he wore a pro-marijuana pin on his police jacket during an auction said Wednesday that he plans to fight his dismissal.

Vermilion Police Capt. Michael Reinheimer believes he was fired for wearing the pin. But Chris Hartung, the city's police chief, said Reinheimer already had disciplinary problems before the auction and the pin was the simply the last straw.

Reinheimer said he plans to appeal his termination before Vermilion's Civil Service Commission. If they reject his appeal, he plans to sue the city.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio voters last week soundly rejected a proposal to legalize marijuana, but the nearly 2-to-1 vote left unanswered questions about why voters rebuffed the plan.

Was Issue 3's monopoly on growing to blame? Or did Ohioans just say no to recreational marijuana?

Costly exit polls weren't conducted, but Issue 3 supporters are now seeking answers through a survey on its website.