COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohioans could buy marijuana, pot-infused candies and other related products from potentially 1,100-plus retail stores around the state if voters approve a legalization measure on Tuesday’s ballots.

The proposed constitutional amendment, known as Issue 3, would let adults 21 and older purchase marijuana and grow up to four plants at home. The initiative lays out a regulatory scheme, while creating a network of 10 authorized growing facilities and establishing nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries.

Here are some things to know about how retail stores would work under the measure.
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NUMBER OF STORES BASED ON OHIO’S POPULATION

Is it time to toke in Ohio?

This Election Day, residents of the Buckeye State will be voting on two conflicting ballot initiatives relating to marijuana.

One — Issue 3 — would legalize marijuana, but only as a monopoly by certain investors. The other — Issue 2 — would illegalize such monopolies.

It’s not clear what will happen if they both pass.

Like some of legal cannabis’ biggest opponents, Willie Nelson is declaring war on Big Marijuana.

The country singer and cannabis/hemp activist also gets so stoned that he often has multiple joints and vape pens going at once — and he hates edibles because of a bad pot cookie experience from 50 years ago.

These are only a few of the tasty nugs we learn about Nelson in a fresh New York Magazine story on the country legend.

But the piece’s most surprising insight? After all these hazy decades, Willie Nelson doesn’t know much about weed.

"I only wanted to help people who needed their medicine," compassion club owner Mark Hauk said Monday. (Devin Heroux/CBC News)

The Saskatchewan Compassion Club has reopened its doors after being raided by Saskatoon police last week — but you won't find any marijuana inside. 

Police took the unlicensed dispensary's stock when they arrested owner Mark Hauk and three others on Thursday. All of them are facing drug-related charges including trafficking and possession. Saskatoon Police say the charges relate to selling marijuana to recreational users and people with marijuana prescriptions. Because the facility is not licensed with Health Canada, any sale of drugs is considered illegal.

The city of Denver wants to share its blueprint for legal marijuana this week.

DENVER – Fears that trick-or-treaters here might end up with marijuana-laced candy on Halloween appear to have been overblown: Children's Hospital Colorado reported no instances of accidental pot poisonings from Friday night.

The Denver Police Department last month warned parents to be on the lookout for marijuana candies, in large part because they are virtually identical in appearance to candies available from grocery stores. And some "edibles" makers simply buy commercially available candies and spray or inject them with marijuana oil.

Let's face it, 2016 is going to be a monumental year when it comes to the election process. In 2016 we'll be electing a new president, potentially changing the make-up of Congress, and more than a half-dozen states may be deciding on the medicinal or recreational approval of marijuana.

Voters are about to weigh in on marijuana
Marijuana has been a hot-button issue for consumers this decade, with three national polls (Gallup, General Social Survey, and Pew Research) all showing that a slim majority of respondents have a favorable opinion of the currently federally-illicit drug. Focusing solely on medicinal marijuana, the perception of favorability shoots even higher.

Barring some major backtracking by Canada’s new Liberal government, marijuana could soon be legal across the land.

Getting rid of the laws that criminalize the drug shouldn’t be too challenging, according to one U.S. official, but actually implementing and monitoring the market for it will be a complex exercise.

Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division director Lewis Koski spoke to The West Block‘s Tom Clark this weekend about his state’s experience since it made marijuana legal for recreational purposes back in 2013.

Justin Henderson was a little gun-shy at first. But it was 2008, and the Great Recession had stalled the real estate industry, leaving the Denver-based developer sitting on properties that weren't cash-flowing. When a couple of friends and colleagues started leasing their warehouses to pot growers, Henderson weighed his own options. "It's a tricky thing to tell everybody in your conservative financial life that you're part of the marijuana industry," he said.

Henderson now heads a company he believes is poised to become a mover in the cannabis industry beyond Colorado's borders.

Tech billionaire Sean Parker is expected to fund a possible California ballot proposal to legalize marijuana.

Many groups are trying to get initiatives legalizing marijuana on California’s November 2016 ballot, but one scheduled to be announced Monday will have something none of the others do: the money to run an effective campaign.

The Chronicle has learned that billionaire tech investor Sean Parker, the former Facebook president, is willing to spend millions to help pass the proposed Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, according to a source close to the ballot effort.