Banning marijuana growing at home, increasing the substance’s tax rate and altering how those taxes get distributed are among vast changes Ohio Senate Republicans proposed Monday to a marijuana legalization measure approved by voters last month.
The changes emerged suddenly in committee just days before the new law is set to take effect, though their fate in the full Senate and the GOP-led House is still unclear.
The ballot measure, dubbed Issue 2, passed on the Nov. 7 election with 57 percent of the vote and it set to become law this Thursday, making Ohio the 24th state to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. But as a citizen-initiated statute, the Legislature is free to make tweaks on it, of which they’re attempting plenty.
I fucking called it. Seriously, I have a comment on here from the day after the vote complaining about how the bill was still open to being edited after we voted on it and I called the they would remove the home growing part.
Capitalism baby. Can’t have you producing your own stuff when the corporations can sell it to you at 10x the price.
That was absolutely what happened in California. Michigan got it right, I wish the pro-legalization groups would leverage the rivalry between OSU and Michigan to get the conservatives who are obsessed with it to get their heads out of their asses.
Anyone over the age of 21 in California can grow 6 plants, and with a medical rec, you can grow up to 24.
Getting a growers license allows for larger farms, and is pretty cheap and easy to get, provided you own the property. I will admit that getting a distribution license is enough of a hassle that I don’t bother. I just sell to licenced distributors. They do the lab work, and even trim my buds for me. I started with 6 plants, and now have 50.
The thing is, we tried to pass legization as a constitutional amendment several times in past years and it always failed.
It was tried once with Issue 3 and it was a terrible proposal that would have restricted the marijuana market to specific investors and enshrined that language in the constitution so it would only be changeable with another amendment.
I don’t disagree with you regarding issue 3. All I’m suggesting, is that the citizen ballot initiative was the only way it was going to pass. But you should always expect Ohio Republicans to be bastards.