Ohio voters have approved a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana. Republican legislative leaders are expected to weigh revisiting aspects of the proposal that passed Tuesday.
    • @[email protected]
      20•2 years ago

      It’s not enough. And it should be federally legal.

      Just a reminder as people mostly know but it’s worth repeating: Marijuana is a schedule 1 substance in the same category as heroin, fucking heroin, which is absolutely fucking asinine. Psilocybin is up there too and also just as retarded.

      This all being said at least we’re making some slow progress.

    • GhostalmediaEnglish
      32•2 years ago

      And if you count the states that have it decriminalized and or offer prescriptions from Dr. Nick or Dr. Spaceman, then there aren’t very many holdouts left.

      Biden should just run on abortions and weed next year. Make it federal if the democrats can take back enough of the house and hold the senate.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 years ago

        I don’t know if people even think about voting in terms of campaign promises anymore. They never pull through. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me every fucking 2 years for my entire adult life, shame on me.

        Just keep it honest: Not fascist vs fascist. Weed will stay illegal, climate will continue to spiral, wealth gap will continue to increase, healthcare will continue to be abusive, abortion will continue to rely on flimsy court decisions, etc. But at least we’ll keep having elections, so we’ve got that going for us.

      • FoundTheVegan
        4•2 years ago

        wat

        Wait omg rly? Omg I am so happy rn I’m omw blessed ohio save me some vegan edibles

        • @[email protected]
          8•2 years ago

          Stick to Columbus and Cleveland. Cincy is pretty wealthy right in my experience. Everywhere else just kinda sucks tbh.

  • FartsWithAnAccentEnglish
    14•2 years ago

    Wow Ohio, that’s a surprisingly not insane move! Soon you won’t be the Florida of the north if you keep this up.

    • @[email protected]
      6•2 years ago

      The good news is if we keep sending all our boomers to Florida eventually Ohio might be a place younger people can have a say in and want to live in.

      E:spelling

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        eventually Ohio might be a place younger people … want to live in.

        I’ve never read something so awful /s

        Congrats on your wins tonight from your enemy rival friend to the north.

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 years ago

          As a Toledo resident, the best part of tonight is that i no longer have to feel dirty crossing the border OR support your state’s economy to buy good edibles! /s

          In all serious though, my mom’s side of the family is from Ann Arbor, and there are many beautiful parts of your state that i have been lucky to go see. Old Town Lansing is such an underrated place IMO.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    27•2 years ago

    So PA is going to be officially surrounded by legal states, while only having medical

    This is worse than the fireworks.

    • Bone
      6•2 years ago

      I feel like they are just fleecing people through the medical system at this point. ID cards, goofy doctors, etc. Enough is enough.

      The system is growing exponentially. I was given those numbers by one of the goofy doctors. Pretty remarkable!

    • @[email protected]
      6•2 years ago

      Don’t worry. Many lawmakers in Ohio have already said they’ll immediately overrule it via legislation. Dunno the legality of what they’ve said, but I wouldn’t put it past them.

      • partial_accumen
        12•2 years ago

        Many lawmakers in Ohio have already said they’ll immediately overrule it via legislation.

        I would imagine any legislative actions would be ruled unconstitutional as the method of legalization was a state Constitutional amendment.

  • @[email protected]
    33•2 years ago

    it’s just so anachronistic that it’s still illegal anywhere. nobody deserves criminal prosecution for any drug, let alone marijuana. it should be trivial paper shuffling to fix it too, it’s not like it needs funding or infrastructure. just hit the fucking button, no one should be getting in trouble for it.

    • donuts
      1•2 years ago

      I think it actually requires passing a federal bill, but I’m not honestly sure. Either way I’m with you, it should never have been made illegal and it certainly didn’t still be federally illegal today…

      • @[email protected]English
        0•2 years ago

        AFAIK the DEA and drug scheduling is under the executive branch so someone like Biden should be able to have it rescheduled, but so far all we’ve gotten from him is a committee to study whether marijuana is dangerous or not as roughly half the country have already fully legalized it and probably 2/3 have it legal for medicinal purposes.

        • BraveSirZaphod
          0•2 years ago

          I think weed is an issue where Biden’s personal life experience and age show more than just about anywhere else. He’s an old devout Catholic boomer that doesn’t even drink and has a son that’s had a very public struggle with drug addiction. I don’t think he’s ever going to exactly be a champion of legalization.

          It’s definitely something that can be criticized, but in the grand scheme of things, given that federal prosecution of marijuana “crimes” are basically non-existent nowadays anyway, it’s a pretty small matter for me. You are right though that he has taken a step towards potentially rescheduling it, which is definitely a step in the right direction.

          • @[email protected]English
            0•2 years ago

            While people aren’t really being federally prosecuted, the ban still does have far reaching effects like not being able to cross a state border while in possession, get a federal job, or open a bank account as a dispensary (except in some circumstances). Our state department of revenue had to spend millions of dollars to build a giant vault in order to collect millions of dollars in cash from the tax revenue.

            I just find it frustrating since I think there’s plenty of political will to just end this draconian prohibition nationwide relatively easily, but nobody seems willing to step up to the plate regardless of party.

            • BraveSirZaphod
              0•2 years ago

              nobody seems willing to step up to the plate regardless of party.

              I mean, this is the exact thing I’m talking about. Things are actually happening, but it’s the federal government and glaciers are speedy in comparison. The Department of Health and Human Services is, right now, doing work to fully explore rescheduling marijuana. A bill was passed recently that makes it substantially easier for researchers to study marijuana for medical purposes by reducing legal barriers.

              Progress is slow, and I completely understand and agree that it’s frustrating, but that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.

  • @[email protected]
    6•2 years ago

    Between the marijuana and women’s rights, conservatives must be losing their goddamned minds with rage right now.