Banning marijuana growing at home, increasing the substance’s tax rate and altering how those taxes get distributed are among vast changes Ohio Senate Republicans proposed Monday to a marijuana legalization measure approved by voters last month.

The changes emerged suddenly in committee just days before the new law is set to take effect, though their fate in the full Senate and the GOP-led House is still unclear.

The ballot measure, dubbed Issue 2, passed on the Nov. 7 election with 57 percent of the vote and it set to become law this Thursday, making Ohio the 24th state to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. But as a citizen-initiated statute, the Legislature is free to make tweaks on it, of which they’re attempting plenty.

  • Fluke@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Anything is dangerous shit with enough of an idiot at the helm.

    Drugs are more regulated than guns in the US for fuck’s sake. That there should be enough.

    I bet the mental gymnastics routine to justify that is straight tens.

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      7 months ago

      more regulated than guns

      Unless I imagined the record breaking 38 mass killings this year I’m gonna have to take that to mean you think they’re barely regulated at all.