Voters In This State Could Make Marijuana History Today

Ohio voters are heading to the polls Tuesday to vote on whether or not to legalize medical and recreational marijuana.

The passage of Issue 3 would make Ohio the home of a lot of firsts: the first Midwestern state to legalize the drug, the first successful privately-funded legalization campaign, and the first state in the country to legalize medical and recreational uses at once, according to the Washington Post.

But what really makes the Ohio ballot initiative different is that it limits growing and selling marijuana to 10 predetermined farms. Those properties are owned by the investment groups that are bankrolling the campaign for Issue 3 through an organization called ResponsibleOhio, according to Politico. Each investment group was asked to pitch in between $2-4 million to ResponsibleOhio. They now stand to make as much as $1 billion annually as Ohio’s only large-scale pot farmers.

It’s an arrangement that...

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