Drafters of this year’s proposal to legalize marijuana in Ohio said Tuesday they’ve added language to allow adults over 21 to get a license to grow at home. They also cut the suggested tax on retail sales from 15 percent to 5 percent.

Until Tuesday, the proposed constitutional amendment from ResponsibleOhio said nothing about people growing at home. Lydia Bolander, the group’s spokeswoman, said the organization originally intended to leave the issue to the Ohio Legislature.

“But we had a lot of input from experts and concerned citizens, not just here in Ohio but nationwide,” Bolander said, “and the more we thought about it, staying silent on the home-grow issue was only going to create more confusion.”

ResponsibleOhio needs to collect at least 306,000 signatures to place the proposed amendment on the November ballot. The amendment would provide for 10 privately owned grow sites – three of which would be in Greater Cincinnati. But potential supporters argued that leaving out home growers could hurt the proposal. [Read more at the Cincinnati Enquirer]