Montel Williams to 支援する 成果／努力 to 合法化する マリファナ in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ― Montel Williams is putting the 星／主役にする 力／強力にする of his long television career behind an 成果／努力 to 合法化する 医療の and recreational マリファナ in Ohio, with an 裏書，是認 Wednesday and 計画（する）s for more 外見s in the 明言する／公表する next week.
The former host of "The Montel Williams Show" （機の）カム 簡潔に to 涙／ほころびs at a news 会議／協議会 in Columbus when speaking about the 力／強力にする of 医療の cannabis to help relieve people's 苦しむing.
"Stop the stupid. Get the 患者s off the 戦場," Williams said.
FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2012 とじ込み／提出する photo, Montel Willi ams is interviewed at the Arkansas 明言する／公表する （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 in Little 激しく揺する. An 成果／努力 to 合法化する 医療の and recreational マリファナ in Ohio is getting the 支援 of Williams. The celebrity who hosted "The Montel Williams Show" for a １０年間 is scheduled to 是認する 問題／発行する 3 during a Columbus 外見 Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
He said Americans are grossly under- and ill-知らせるd about マリファナ's history, 含むing the results of thousands of 熟考する／考慮するs showing its 肯定的な 医療の 影響s.
He said he's worked to 合法化する 医療の マリファナ so others can receive the 利益s he's seen from cannabis in fighting his 多重の sclerosis.
Williams was joined at Wednesday's event by other 医療の マリファナ 支持するs, 含むing an Ohio mother whose 11-year-old daughter 苦しむs from a rare debilitating epileptic 条件 that the mother said could be helped by cannabis.
The 広範囲にわたる nature of Ohio's 提案するd 憲法の 改正 ― which would be the first in the country to 合法化する both recreational and 医療の マリファナ in a 選び出す／独身 投票（する） ― 要求するd Williams to think hard about 是認するing it. It 示すs his first time 是認するing legalization for personal use, or what he called "adult usage."
Williams said he got behind the 改正 because it gave （疑いを）晴らす 詳細（に述べる）s of how it will 供給する 患者s 即座の 接近 to マリファナ as 薬／医学.
"And that's all I'm about," he said. "This entire thing for me has nothing to do with recreational. I have never, ever, ever supported recreational 麻薬 use and I will never do so."
Jen Detwiler, a spokeswoman for the No マリファナ Monopoly, said 投票者s know "the bad in 問題／発行する 3 far outweighs any good that might come from it."
"Thi s is not a 医療の マリファナ 改正," she said. "It is a マリファナ monopoly 改正. And there is very, very little in the 改正 that 会談 about medicinal マリファナ. This 改正 was created and 基金d by people who stand to financially 利益 if it passes."
A 広報担当者 for Williams said he does not ーするつもりである to be an 投資家 in any of the 10 権限を与えるd growing 場所／位置s created by the 提案 and has no 現在の 計画（する）s to be 伴う／関わるd in the Ohio cannabis 商売／仕事.
Those growing 場所／位置s are 的d in a separate 投票（する） 率先, appearing as 問題／発行する 2, that would 禁止（する） 挿入するing 経済的な monopolies in Ohio's 憲法.
