A hundred or so rich investors (the vast majority from out of state) wanted Ohioans to vote to give them a monopoly on growing and wholesaling pot in Ohio in exchange for legalizing it. To create an Ohio pot cartel, and to enforce it by using police to crack down on anyone not in the cartel. Oh, there was a supposed exception that anyone could grow four plants personally (bought FROM the cartel), but in order to use it, you also had to agree to let the police come in and search your home any time they felt like it, to make sure you weren't growing more than four plants, and didn't have an 'excessive' amount of non-cartel pot on hand.
Pretty much dictionary fascism, with agents of the state used to protect the monopoly powers of a corporation.
When Ohioans are ready to legalize, they'll be ready to LEGALIZE, and treat pot like they do any other agricultural crop. Food and safety inspections for retailers, wholesalers, and processors, and free to be grown in gardens alongside flowers and vegetables.
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Proponents said the plan offered Ohio an opportunity move forward with marijuana legalization, with polls showing voters favored allowing residents to partake, particularly for medical reasons.
So Ohioans are ready to legalize, they just don't intend to do so simply to make a handful of people rich.
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