The group needs more than 300,000 signatures by July to seal the deal.

Ohioans for Medical Marijuana started its next push to make sure a proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio gets on the November ballot.

Volunteers hit the pavement in Columbus Wednesday to collect signatures and recruit supporters.

The group needs more than 300,000 signatures by July to seal the deal.

It’s proposing a Medical Marijuana Control Division oversees distribution, enforcement and licensing.

Doctors could recommend medicinal pot to patients with debilitating medical conditions. The proposal also includes qualifying Ohioans to grow their own marijuana.

"I'm really hoping that we can get it to the ballot this time and that people in Ohio realize that you know there's people out there that need this medicine,” volunteer Leanne Barbee said.

While they recruit on foot and by phone, Ohio lawmakers will work on another plan.

“I believe that the general assembly needs to lead and make it right for Ohio to get the regulations correct on growing and testing, distribution, what patient, what doctors can do it,” Representative Steve Huffman said.

Rep. Huffman and other members of the Ohio Medical Marijuana Task Force will soon start to craft their own bill to legalize pot for medical use.

Lawmakers say they plan to model Ohio’s bill, after Maryland’s and they’d like to see it pass before the November election.

"If we do it as a bill in the GE we can modify it later. The ballot initiative is a constitutional amendment that we would not be able to change later,” Rep. Huffman said.

The Drug Free Action Alliance doesn’t want the OMM proposal to be a constitutional amendment.

Executive Director Marcie Seidel says the agency supports more research on marijuana for medicinal use, but it doesn’t consider pot a safe medicine, yet.

"The bottom line is this should not be in our constitution it's such abroad based thing it creates a huge problem and people just don't understand and have the ability to understand all the nuances that's involved in that,” Seidel said.