Issue 1 ✅ Issue 2 ✅
Today was a good day.
For those of us not in Ohio, did some right wing bullshit get shot down?
Abortion and weed are legal in Ohio
Abortion rights were enshrined in the Ohio constitution (specifically early in the pregnancy, cases of rape/incest, and to preserve the life and health of the pregnant person)
Weed was also made legal for adult, recreational use. You can even grow a few plants yourself.
This is a great day. Let’s turn this shit heap around!
Right on! This gave me an unreasonable chuckle.
Congratulations from Wisconsin! Progressive Midwesterners are standing up for their rights. Hell yes - keep fighting in 2024.
Wooo!
“I’m doing my part!”
A good day indeed, very welcome news in a state usually dominated by conservative bullshit.
The weed thing will only make rich people richer and they’ll remove the part about how you’re allowed to grow your own because its not actually a constitutional amendment
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I’m pretty sure theres nothing in thus bill saying employers aren’t allowed to not hire you because you have weed in your system.
Also it was pushed hard by a group called ‘regulate cannabis like alcohol’ except theres no limits on the amount of alcoholyou can possess. However there is a 2.5oz limit with this new rec deal. Also this was funded by a group of republican lobbyists on behalf of the existing cannabis cabal.
Also also you have to pay something like $180 THOUSAND just to apply for a dealers license.
Its total bullshit.
@krolden @halcyondays Your “pretty sure” is correct; see PDF page 48 of https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/getattachment/87720690-45c4-45be-911f-3727b1165dbd/An-Act-to-Control-and-Regulate-Adult-Use-Cannabis-(Re-Submission).aspx under Section 3780.35.
But I can find nothing in the text of the law about fees of $180,000 for application for any of the licenses described in the law. Where did you get that figure from?
Ohio voters actually shot down a previous ballot measure because it would have given a small group an oligopoly over marijuana in the state. This new measure that passed is much better and doesn’t grant all the growing and selling rights to one small group. To my knowledge it should end up very similar to states like Colorado and Michigan.
How is this new one any different? That small group is already well established with the medicinal cannabis industry and they will get the first opportunities to expand into recreational.
@krolden @Deconceptualist The failed 2015 initiative in would have granted an actual monopoly to 10 facilities to grow #marijuana https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Issue_3,_Marijuana_Legalization_Initiative_(2015)#Marijuana_Growth.2C_Cultivation_and_Extraction_.28MGCE.29_facilities — actively shutting out existing businesses
The successful 2023 initiative does not grant any monopolies: https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Issue_2,_Marijuana_Legalization_Initiative_(2023)#Text_of_measure — it sets up an open licensing scheme where anyone can apply to grow and sell, and it sets up jobs and equity funds to give money back to #Ohio communities.
That’s not how it worked elsewhere.
Who’s going to remove that part? Through what process?
Issue 2 wasn’t a change to the state constitution, like issue 1, it was just a change to the Ohio revised code so the state assembly and pass new bills in the chamber to change or modify the new code. There’s no real reason other than optics that the state assembly could just repeal the law tomorrow if they wanted to. It’s going to be interesting seeing what happens with that law going forward.
Any lawmaker who gets lobbied enough
