it’s just so anachronistic that it’s still illegal anywhere. nobody deserves criminal prosecution for any drug, let alone marijuana. it should be trivial paper shuffling to fix it too, it’s not like it needs funding or infrastructure. just hit the fucking button!
OHIGHO
Between the marijuana and women’s rights, conservatives must be losing their goddamned minds with rage right now.
I did a ride along with an Ohio police department years ago. Marijuana was present at damn near every scene we responded to. Usually it was the least of their concern. Scatter it, grind it into the dirt, move on. Barely worth mentioning in the paperwork.
It’s been a long time coming and I’m glad they finally made it official.
More importantly, Ohio voted to protect reproductive rights!!! 👍
Nope, not as important. Marijuana legalization affects the freedom of more citizens than access to abortion.
Both should be legal of course.
As a huge stoner, I’d say fewer broke families without the means to raise their children is a bit more important than legal weed.
Hope it lasts. The problem is it’s an initiated statute rather than a constitutional amendment, so that means the can be repealed or amended by the gerrymandered state legislature anytime, and Republicans are already threatening to do just that.
I say, go ahead and do that. This passed in a landslide, and I’m looking forward to a blue Ohio where Gym Jorden and the worthless Republicans flushed down the toilet like the stale turds they are.
The legislature is gerrymandered so bad, there would be no consequences. The Republicans have safe seats. Ignoring the voters will have no consequences. We need another decade for more Boomers to die to turn blue.
It passed by a 14-point margin. That means Republicans in republican districts voted for this.
The thing is with gerrymandering of seats? The margins are razor thin. You lose a couple of percentage points, and you lose that seat. Fighting this, and you lose more than a few percentage points.
Oh, they are not that thin. Most R seats are safe. And just because some Republicans voted for marijuana doesn’t mean the will vote for a Democrat. They make like legal weed, but they HATE Democrats.
The fact is, they were already planning to change it the second it passed. I bet they eliminate the home grow provision, cut THC limits, and raise the tax rate to make it unaffordable.
Exactly. There’s enough actually sensible Republicans on the issue of weed to cost the GOP a few seats.
Holy shit I didn’t know it was that many
And if you count the states that have it decriminalized and or offer prescriptions from Dr. Nick or Dr. Spaceman, then there aren’t very many holdouts left.
Biden should just run on abortions and weed next year. Make it federal if the democrats can take back enough of the house and hold the senate.
He could, essentially, decriminalize it himself, right now. Spoiler: He won’t.
Dude promised to do it if elected in 2020…soooo.
Biden promised to get rid of student loans as well. He started the program right before the 2022 election, and it got ruled illegal right after it. Maybe he’ll make weed legal by executive order in October of 2024, only for the courts to rule “wait, you don’t have that power” in December of 2024.
Law should be what society wants the law to be. Law should not be what some elite minority ruling class wants the law to be.
Democracy is how we find out what society wants.
It’s supposed to be, but the GOP has been undermining the shit out of it to try and keep the power they have left.
He can’t. He can recommend to the CSA that it be descheduled from a schedule 1 controlled substance (and that recommendation carries a lot of weight), put in place agents who favor descheduling it, or order DEA, HHS, and FDA to consider administrative descheduling.
Vote out Republicans. That’s the only way to make sure it becomes legal.
He can’t and as another commenter pointed out his health panel submitted a research paper along with a recommendation to move cannabis to a schedule three drug.
He’s already doing what you want it’s just not loud about it so you don’t know.
If you wanted to be fully legal you’re going to need to start writing your congressional representatives because they’re the ones who can do it
cries in Texan
Cries in Kansan too
Thank you Dr Space Man!
I don’t know if people even think about voting in terms of campaign promises anymore. They never pull through. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me every fucking 2 years for my entire adult life, shame on me.
Just keep it honest: Not fascist vs fascist. Weed will stay illegal, climate will continue to spiral, wealth gap will continue to increase, healthcare will continue to be abusive, abortion will continue to rely on flimsy court decisions, etc. But at least we’ll keep having elections, so we’ve got that going for us.
With all due respect, he did everything in his power and spent a lot of political capital executing on the topics in question.
Biden shocked me on what he did for pot, and what he tried to do for student loans. I thought it was hot air.
The question is whether Biden is a fascist because the Far Right sued him and won over student loans, or because the DEA continues to laugh at him when he asks them to change Weed’s classification (because he cannot, he can only stop prosecutions and free prisoners, which he has done)
No he didnt
No he didnt what?
Didn’t blanket-pardon people in prison for possession? Didn’t order the stop of federal possession arrests? Didn’t formally request the DEA change the ranking for Marijuanna?
Didn’t shock me?
What didn’t he do?
This is what happens when the system boils down to two parties. Neither party has a reason to fulfill any promises because what’s the voter going to do, vote for the other party that’s even less aligned with their political views? GOP is definitely putting that to the test to see how extremist they can get while still having some modicum of power, but what if everyone does end up voting democrat? Well then there’s no reason to democrats to promise anything because it’s not like people are going to vote for anyone else. The entire system is rotten.
It’s not enough. And it should be federally legal.
Just a reminder as people mostly know but it’s worth repeating: Marijuana is a schedule 1 substance in the same category as heroin, fucking heroin, which is absolutely fucking asinine. Psilocybin is up there too and also just as retarded.
This all being said at least we’re making some slow progress.
Dude, you’re not wrong, but take the win.
Almost half
Seems like it is more than time to legalize it nationally
Ohio: Hotbed of liberal hippies.
It’s a state full of vegans rolling around in ram 2500 power wagons
Wow Ohio, that’s a surprisingly not insane move! Soon you won’t be the Florida of the north if you keep this up.
The good news is if we keep sending all our boomers to Florida eventually Ohio might be a place younger people can have a say in and want to live in.
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And it won’t be entirely underwater in 10 years!
Why is Pennsylvania so late on this?
Man NC is moronic. Replace all the lost tobacco money with weed money… I mean come on. Should be a no brainer.
NC is the prime climate for growing too. I’ll be making the drive to the Cherokee Reservation when they get their dispensaries running, and they can have my money.
I thought it was medically available?
Only under an incredibly convoluted and stupidly managed medical program run by public officials who publicly stated they didn’t want it.
I’m glad cause the “Ohio 8th” which was 2.8g instead of the 3.5g, because it was 1/10th and was the standard for a “day” of consumption will finally die. As will the stupid an convoluted “days” system, limits to purity of product, so no more limiting strains to below 30% or dabs below 80% purity. No more $200 annual fee for medical cards. No more limits to business licenses so more dispensaries, more production centers, more competition. It also adds the right for a person to grow up to six plants. And to commemorate that I’ve got a home hydroponic system from Vevor and Mars Hydro on the way, so I’m finally free to grow my own.
The lower prices and less restrictions will finally lead us to recapturing almost $250mil per year in tax $ to Michigan as well. My heart goes out to all the dispensaries in Michigan that are about to close, but damnit that’s our tax $.
This 100% ends the BS interference DeWine and the R’s have been putting on us. I look forward to the next 30 days and beyond as all this is established. The law goes into effect 12/7.
Congrats on the passage and good luck on your grow!
I got started again earlier this year when my state (MN) finally got it passed, Mars Hydro is great for tents and lights, also grabbed an AC Infinity inline fan which is basically silent compared to the old POS blower I had from 10 years ago while moving a shit ton of air.
I really think home grow is the biggest benefit of legalization, being able to produce your own cannabis and watch it thru the entire process is kind of magical compared to just handing someone cash and getting a bag of junk back. I’m looking forward to getting a press and playing around with concentrates, such an exciting time for cannabis.
Thank you! I lived in Michigan for a few years quite some time back, and grew up there while I lived there. Never have in Ohio yet, but it’s like riding a bike lol. It really is different when you do it yourself.
If you do get a press make sure to do it immediately after harvest or freeze a bunch of nugs before you cure them! The yields will wildly differ and the flavor profile of the terps is much better.
Cleveland is really going to rock tonight.
Did it rock last night. My sister lives on w9/st Claire and she didn’t say anything happened outside the norm.
Welcome to the club!
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Long overdue - by more than 10 years really - that it’s done at the federal level.
