Is Responsible Ohio's mascot Buddie 'the Joe Camel of marijuana'?

Cannabis advocates have created a monster, and its name is Buddie.

The green cannabis bud with a cool smile, six-pack abs and a cape is for campaigners the walking advertisement for Responsible Ohio, an initiative on the November ballot to legalize pot in the state.

But to many marijuana legalization advocates, Buddie represents an unsettling shift in power, out of the hands of the traditional policy movement and into those of green-eyed newcomers clamoring to be part of a burgeoning profitable industry.

On 3 November, Ohioans will vote in the first major legalization effort to be bankrolled entirely by investors with a direct financial stake in the outcome. The campaign will have spent $20m – by far the largest amount ever raised for a legalization initiative. And if voters approve the measure, the state constitution will read that all the cultivation in the state falls into the hands...

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