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Ohio House leaders said the legislature can’t and likely won’t find common ground on the issue.
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Cannabis possession, use and home growth went legal at the end of 2023—but sale to adult-use, non-medical customers is not yet legal.
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Michigan and other states that have previously legalized adult-use recreational marijuana could provide a template for building a recreational ecosystem in Ohio.
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Several Columbus suburbs already had varying restrictions on medicinal marijuana sales, cultivation and processing. Grove City is so far the first to try and pass similar restrictions for recreational weed.
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When Ohio's mid-term General Assembly went home for the holidays, lawmakers left behind hundreds of bills to deal with in 2024.
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At the end of some years, lawmaking stretches into the early morning hours as legislators race to get bills to the finish line—the governor’s desk—before their terms end.
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Business & EconomyGoremade Pizza and Walking Distance Brewing Company are some of the first businesses that are explicitly telling customers they can smoke marijuana at their establishments.
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You can use it and grow the plant, but you still can’t buy it.
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Ohio State argued federal law restricting marijuana use supersedes a recently passed state law that legalizes weed because the university received federal funds.
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With the Senate proposing big changes to the law created by Issue 2, Rep. Jamie Callender (R-Concord) is proposing his own plan to implement Ohio's new marijuana legalization statute.