Pot activists cheer ballot move to stop ResponsibleOhio

Department of Strange Bedfellows: Ohio marijuana activists applaud the ballot measure, passed by a conservative Ohio legislature, that would stop the plan by the private group ResponsibleOhio to legalize marijuana.(Photo: File)

Just in the past week, the politics of legalizing marijuana in Ohio in 2015 has created strange bedfellows – conservative legislators and longtime marijuana activists who want to stop the initiative of the private group ResponsibleOhio.

The Ohio Legislature has placed on the Nov. 3 ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that would forbid any addition to the state constitutional creating "a monopoly, oligopoly or cartel," especially to sell and distribute a federally controlled substance, such as marijuana.

Several hours before the Ohio Senate voted June 30 on the anti-monopoly initiative, ResponsibleOhio turned in 695,273 signatures of Ohio voters to the state to put its Marijuana Legalization Amendment on this year's ballot. Ohio Secretary of State Jon...

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