The Most Effective Cannabis Legalization Strategy Is to Put Patients First
Last fall voters in Ohio voted down a ballot initiative to fully legalize the personal use of cannabis in the state. The law had many problems, primary among them the creation of a legal oligopoly favoring the companies lobbying for the bill. It’s hard to say whether the ballot measure would have passed even with a more open structure since, according to Quinnipiac polling, Ohio only supports full legalization by a small margin. Legalization of medical cannabis, however, has overwhelming popular support in the state and if it had been a medical law on the ballot (without the restrictive corporate structure) it would have had a higher chance of passing. It’s often lost in legalization talk that cannabis is helping patients across the country deal with a number of debilitating illnesses from cancer to multiple sclerosis to Crohn’s disease to intractable epilepsy and I think we have some responsibility...
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