Activists working to legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio submitted more than 200,000 signatures to state officials this week in a move that will send a proposed legalization statute to the legislature for consideration.
The legalization plan also levies a 10 percent tax on retail marijuana sales, with 36 percent of revenue going to local governments that host cannabis businesses and 25 percent dedicated to funding substance abuse programs. Another three percent of taxes raised would be used for operational costs to govern the legal cannabis program, with the remainder allocated to a cannabis social equity program to remedy disproportionate harms caused by the War on Drugs.
“Eighteen states have already legalized cannabis for adult use, including our neighbor to the north,” HarenChanges Proposed For Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Program Ohio lawmakers are also considering a proposal to expand the state’s current medical marijuana program under aintroduced by Republican Sen. Steve Huffman. Among other changes, the bill would eliminate the program’s list of medical conditions that qualify a patient for medical marijuana. Instead, physicians would be given discretion to recommend the medicinal use of cannabis to any patient who can be reasonably expected to benefit from it.
“Because that’s recreational marijuana,” Huffman said in a November interview about the bill. “If you’re going to grow five for your medical purpose, you know, the neighbor kids going to steal one, [and] you’re going to sell a couple.” Huffman’s medical marijuana expansion bill was approved by the Ohio Senate on December 15. The measure now heads to the state House of Representatives for consideration.
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