The only 'individual' I knew as a 'face' was Nick Lachey, who's somewhat of a hometome hero type in SW Ohio. His 'face' didn't cause me to vote against it. I've got nothing personal against him.

Where you lost a lot of folks on the left was actually in trying to set it up as a privately run monopoly to extract wealth from the state and ship it off to absentee landlord investors.

Just fricking put a regular old 'legalize it' (or at least 'decriminalize it') initiative up, without trying to have us 'buy' social justice by selling our economic justice. Make it so you can't be arrested for owning or selling pot. Set it up like any other agricultural product, so anyone who wants to wholesale or retail or process has to pass the same sorts of inspections as any other foodstuff in Ohio, and any home gardener can pop it in next to their flowers and veggies.

What he said.

then after reading and re-reading Issue 2 I voted for it thinking it would stop the monopolies from being set up.
Who wants a monopoly on anything? Then later I found that if you voted for Issue 2 you effectively voided Issue 3.
I wonder how soon it can be put on the ballot again.

Without anything else. Just let the voters decide if they want to legalize, and then AFTER that, the legislators can get busy on setting up necessary regulations so that ANY person can grow, as much as they want, and only face the need for inspections if they're selling their product onward, like other farmers.

Even if they like cannabis, most folks hate monopolies.


IMO, except perhaps for extracts and precise edibles, the Corporate way
is the wrong way to go for cannabis.

Small growers and sellers will produce the best, purest product, as do small wineries
and micro-breweries.

Farmers got together, paid for the referendum, and worded it to limit the right to grow weed to their own farms. Greedy capitalists set the whole process back five years.