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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Ohio Legislators working to prevent rise of marijuana monopolies from pro-pot plans 🌿Ohio Legislators working to prevent rise of marijuana monopolies from pro-pot plans
COLUMBUS -- Ohio lawmakers are beginning to hear some of the objections raised against plans to legalize marijuana, and it might not be for the reason you think.
According to a report by the Columbus Dispatch, bipartisan support is building to suppress any legislation that could use constitutional amendments to create monopolies.
As currently written, the leading pro-pot proposal -- submitted by ResponsibleOhio -- would change the Ohio Constitution to allow 10 investment groups the exclusive right to grow and sell marijuana wholesale.
As much support as the idea of legalizing weed in the state has gathered, words like "monopoly" and even "cartel" have seeped into the conversation slowly but steadily.
At the heart of the concern is how this pro-pot legislation -- as with recent ballot initiatives like that which critics say allowed Penn National Gaming to corner the casino market in Ohio -- could leverage a change in Ohio's constitution...
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