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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Why Ohio voted against legal marijuana — and what it means for the future of the pot debate 🌿Why Ohio voted against legal marijuana — and what it means for the future of the pot debate
Wednesday morning ushered in a new chapter in the battle over legalizing pot.
On Tuesday, voters rejected a controversial marijuana legalization measure at the polls in Ohio, despite polling showing support in Ohio for marijuana legalization. Voters balked at the specifics of the ballot initiative, which would have created an oligopoly on marijuana production for a small handful of the initiative's wealthy donors.
The initiative faced an uphill battle from the start. The first stumbling block was the nature of the ballot measure itself. It would have essentiallywritten a marijuana oligopoly into the state's constitution, with the measure's wealthy backers as the only recipients of licenses to grow marijuana commercially. That didn't sit right with many of the national advocacy groups that have backed successful legalization measures in other states. The Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Policy Project refrained from endorsing the Ohio bill. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws gave...
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