GOP Senators Introduce New Bill With Changes To Ohio’s Cannabis Initiative As Retail Sales Loom
As Ohio inches closer to launching its legal recreational marijuana market, a new Republican Senate bill is hovering over the process. The bill seeks to control where Ohioans can consume cannabis and impose new rules on home cultivation. Adult-use cannabis was legalized in November 2023 with 57% of the vote.
With just months, or even weeks, before Ohio’s medical marijuana dispensaries are set to begin selling recreational cannabis, Republican State Senators Kirk Schuring and Stephen Huffman introduced a bill that would place a ban on smoking or vaping marijuana in public and would require home growers to file affidavits with the Ohio Division of Cannabis Control (ODCC) promising to follow the law.
Advocates Frustrated With New GOP Attempts To Change Initiative
This is not the first time Republican lawmakers have attempted to change the initiative. Within days after Amendment 2 was approved last …