Here's Who Would Set the Rules for Ohio's Medical Marijuana Under the Statehouse Plan
Many of the specifics governing legalized medical marijuana under a plan Ohio legislators introduced this week would fall to a nine-person commission under the Ohio Department of Health.
Their responsibilities would include establishing a program to oversee licensing of marijuana cultivators, processors and retail stores. They would also outline how many cultivators and retail stores could get licenses, how marijuana would be labeled and packaged, and how retail employees would need to be trained.
Importantly, and different from the competing constitutional amendmentproposed by the Marijuana Policy Project, the commission would only oversee marijuana-infused edibles, patches, plant materials and oils. It must come up with rules for whether patients could smoke marijuana. The proposal would ban methods potentially attractive to children, so it's unclear how something like marijuana brownies could be packaged and advertised.
Ohio lawmakers appointed to the House Select Committee on Medical Marijuana begin the...
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