Ohio state Senate Republicans are proposing vast changes to a recreational marijuana measure approved by voters last month.

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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    614·
    1 year ago

    What democrats did 80 years ago on the federal level is completely irrelevant to what Republicans are doing right now on the state level in Ohio.

    That would make sense if they just did it once 80 years ago and haven’t spent Joe Bidens (almost) entire life continuously doing it…

    My issue with what you are doing is that your comment here, and most of your other political themed comments elsewhere, are always taking aim at the democrats

    Because if Dems become anymore like Republicans we have no chance left.

    Like, if two houses catch fire and ones already burnt to the ground, are you going to demand firefighters put the same effort into both? Or are you going to realize the priority is the one that can still be saved?