Ohio Voters Approved Recreational Weed. GOP Legislature guts it.

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Welcome to the Hellhole that's run by the Republicans.

R1 Fuck Off. I live in Ohio.

And every single person who voted for these morons will vote for them again.

It could be something like this that will get constituents and voters all lit up.

Chill OP. Parts of the law, including growing at home takes effect December 7th.

That’s what the state gets for voting red. Better dead than red.

R6 Yes. But you still cannot buy weed.....Possession is legal. Purchasing is not. And the MAGA Loons want to gut the THC levels by 40%. So basically you can buy WEAK weed.

Ohio & Alabama -- separated at birth??

Republicans don’t care about polls or public opinion, just the agenda of the extreme.

R8 So you can't buy it, they want to change it so you can't grow it but you can possess a small amount of weak weed. What's the point. And voters won't care and will vote them back in anyway

Stupid Republicans could probably use some weed to chill out. Those people are perpetually enraged at everything despite living in one of the world's most prosperous nations.

R9 almost, but not quite—more WV or Arkansas.

Alabamas’s twin sister is the entire section of PA between Pittsburgh and Philly.

R1 is a fucking idiot.

Ohio is such a shithole state. Just like Florida, Alabama, West Virginia and Arkansas.

R7, Ohio is extremely gerrymandered. We are using legislative maps that were declared unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court. It’s really hard to vote Republicans out when they are hand-carving their districts.

R15, West Virginia and Arkansas at least have beautiful nature and outdoors activities. Does Ohio?

No, it does not!

Ohio does have beautiful parts.

R17 and R19 this ain’t a physical geography lecture. Jesus Christ, catch up.

I know for a fact that Ohio is beautiful because they've written a song about it.

R20 needs a blunt.

One thing you have to say about Florida -- no one here cares what the laws are, so you can smoke or buy as much as you want.

Provided you're white, of course. If you're black (or in some areas, even Hispanic), look out.

They need to import some more Old People, like in FL and AZ. Believe it or not that,'s one of the contingents that campaigned the hardest to get Pot legalized. "Medical Marijuana my Ass! My joints are killing me.*

They should put a referendum on the ballot that requires any changes made to a previously-passed referendum have to be put up to a referendum of its own.

Let's face it: Republicans hate democracy, particularly the direct democracy of referendums.

To avoid this it would have had to have been a constitutional amendment. Statutes, by their very natures, are subject to amendment.

Brace yourselves. Bernie Marino is leading every poll. This is going to be Sherrod Browns replacement. PRO-TRUMP. Not the most "masculine" person running.

R27 I wish Biden would pay me to sit on my coach and eat pizza all day

Gay face ⬆️

This is a gay site R29.

R28, is your coach hot at least? Does he like rimming you while you knock back some Papa Johns?

R31 Yes, though he'll only spring for Little Caesar's

"Trump was right. The elections WAS STOLEN"----"Build the wall"---------->>>Future Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno.....................He is using the JD Vance playbook and it's going to work.

R33, was that meant for HanoiLounge?

R21 Connie is a MAGA bitch so I'd hardly call her unbiased.

R34 No. That video actually shows Bernie Moreno campaign videos (2:40). It also shows foreigners promoting GOP candidates. Gee. I wonder why?

BIG GOP opposition is because Republicans don't like the "social justice" clause...Which is fancy talk for MINORITY owned dispensaries................"The "Social Equity and Jobs Program" was established by Issue 2. It is designed to fix "the harms resulting from the disproportionate enforcement of marijuana-related laws" and "reduce barriers to ownership and opportunity" to those "most directly and adversely impacted by the enforcement of marijuana-related laws," according to the initiative."

Republicans are just pissed that the constitutional amendment for abortion rights passed, so they are exerting their power on the other issue {that can be changed by the legislature) which passed easily.

Dammit Ohio! You raised my hero Commander John Glenn! You've always been a Midwest, steady Democrat state! Get your shit together! The people want their cannabis!

The governor stated that the people voted for it, so the people will get it.

They Pukes spent years lining things up so they could get the business when it became legal. Now it has, they want to make sure their investments will pay off. It’s the same virtually everywhere. Jhon Bonner made millions buying weed businesses then moved to make weed legal when he was speaker of the house. A lot of what the pukes do is just business presented as social policy though not everything. You want to know how the world works read the buisness press everyday. Meanwhile Ohioans just need to grow a few in the closet. Modern grow lights are super good and cheap to operate now.

Updated.....ISSUE TWO was the ballot measure to legalize weed.....Final GOP changes----------->>."Sets a six plant limit per household for home grow. Under Issue 2, would be a 12 plant limit. — Sets a 15% flat tax on recreational sale. Under Issue 2, it would be 10%. — Creates a provision that allows any Ohioan who has pleaded guilty to possession of under 2.5 ounces of marijuana to expunge their record. Issue 2 did not specifically reference any expungement. — Limits the maximum THC content for extract to 50%. In Issue 2, that limit was 90%."..................The GOP Legislature gutted the THC potency and hit weed with 15% tax. Trumper Governor DeWine held a press conference earlier today warning of "black market" weed if the GOP Legislature didn't pass the changes. Basically the Republican Party in Ohio changed what was voted on and passed in November.

From cleveland.com:

[quote]Up in smoke: Ohioans can begin growing marijuana at home and won’t be charged for possession of small amounts as a new voter-approved recreational marijuana law takes effect without changes from state lawmakers. Laura Hancock and Jeremy Pelzer report that the Ohio Senate and Gov. Mike DeWine coalesced behind a proposal that included immediate recreational sales at medical marijuana dispensaries, lowering THC concentrations and keeping home-grow in place, but the Ohio House adjourned Wednesday without taking up the bill. Until both sides can agree on changes, the proposal that passed in November is the law of the land.

The Republican Senate wanted to put all sort of controls and restrictions; The Republican House rejected it. House members must feel much more vulnerable to a voter backlash next yr.

Well, the Ohio GOP Senate failed thanks to a fearful House. One of the points R42 made — "Trumper Governor DeWine held a press conference earlier today warning of "black market" weed if the GOP Legislature didn't pass the changes." — is actually true only in the inverse (as we've found out in California). Weakening the THC concentration (meaning you have to ingest more for the same effect) and a 15% tax on recreational purchases only drives users to the black market.

If Ohio (and all of the other states viewing legal weed as a cash bonanza) want to see the money, they'll have to do the same thing they did with alcohol and make all of the dispensaries state-owned/run.

Long live the “Black market”

They're shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that fundie nutbag rethugs don't want them smoking weed?

Who could have possibly seen that coming.

However, it's interesting to note that they had enough popular votes to pass, so it also suggests that there's potentially enough popular votes to oust the rethug majority and governor...

You can’t buy weed in DC either but that’s no problem. You buy some cheap token like a sticker or wristband and then receive a corresponding amount of cannabis as a lagniappe.

[quote] Purchasing is not. And the MAGA Loons want to gut the THC levels by 40%. So basically you can buy WEAK weed.

If you have genes for schizophrenia, smoking weed will trigger it. People still think weed isn’t dangerous but it can be. That being said, if people want to destroy their bodies on their own time, so be it.

R46, it would be great if you knew you were actually getting marijuana and not some synthetic shit from China/something with Fentanyl sprinkled on it.

I’m not rolling the dice with street stuff anymore.

Alcohol sure triggers a negative spiral in many, many people, regardless of their genetic background.

Senate reverses posture suddenly. No doubt they heard from their constituents.

R52, haha! Oh, what a quick about-face!

Less than 50% of eligible voters voted. Too busy for democracy? Disgusting.

R4 nailed it.

The law was passed on Nov 8. The Ohio Legislature did nothing about it until 2 days before it was set to take effect this week. They gutted the THC levels. One cancer patient said the new levels are below standards of comfort for patients. Taxes and Crime are out of control in Columbus.

They haven't done it yet. They said they wanted to do it, but they didn't.

Every single Republicans needs to be slipped an entire dose of shrooms -- make those motherfuckers trip out and relearn some empathy!