Why Doesn't Ohio Have a Legal Cannabis Law Today?
Cannabis is still illegal in the state of Ohio. By now the news is out that Ohio's Issue 3 -- to legalize the personal use of cannabis -- has failed with 65% of voters against and only 35% in favor. This was a very highly publicized ballot initiative with a tremendous amount of lobbying and legal positioning on both sides. In the end, what made Issue 3 fail and how did it fail by such large margins? Is Ohio just not ready for legal cannabis, or were there other factors involved?
Certainly the so-called oligopoly provisions in Issue 3 played a large part in the final vote tally. The ten companies which funded the initiative under the name Responsible Ohio would have been the ones directly controlling all production of legal cannabis in the state. There has been growing discontent among both voters and lawmakers...
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