6 reasons marijuana legalization failed in Ohio
CINCINNATI — The sheer size of Tuesday’s crushing electoral defeat of marijuana legalization in the Buckeye State surprised political experts inside and out of Ohio. Despite a $20 million campaign, the proposed constitutional amendment, known as Issue 3, lost. Amid its smoking wreckage, six reasons emerge to explain what happened to Issue 3 — and what happens next.
With 99% of precincts reporting, the amendment was defeated 64% to 36%.
The business plan. “Boy, that word monopoly. It’s been an ugly word in politics sinceTheodore Roosevelt’s day,” political scientist David Niven at the University of Cincinnatisaid Tuesday night. Issue 3 was unique in the history of the modern legalization movement in that it would have written into the Ohio Constitution provisions to limit the cultivation of the state’s crop to 10 already-chosen properties. Issue 3’s backers said the plan’s advantage would have been to allow the state to tightly regulate marijuana at the grow source. The technical term...
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