Those facilities are owned by investors in the legalization movement.
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At the time of this release, Issue 3 was trailing 35-65 with 43% of precincts reporting and The Columbus Dispatch had called the election.
By all early reports Issue 3 will pass and Ohio will become the fifth state to legalize recreational marijuana and the 24th for medical marijuana. The set number of 10 facilities would have allowed regulators to safely oversee the industry, he said, without a major influx of grow facilities up front. It would prohibit monopolies, oligopolies and cartels that deliver economic gain to individuals from being inserted into Ohio’s constitution. After Tuesday’s voting James said the loss is “a bump in the road”. Ohioans still need treatment and deserve compassionate care.
“Because when the state house refuses to deal with the voters, the voters have to make the deal that their voices are heard”.
Support for marijuana legalization in Ohio has been touch and go with state based polls showing supporters of Issue 3 with a small lead or dead even split.
“I voted for it medical-wise to help veterans”, said Dennis Carter, who was in the Navy for three years.
A spokesman for the coalition that wrote the law says he thinks it will be the only legalization option voters have on that ballot. I doubt it, because they would lose major funding from the 10 perspective growers.
The swing state of almost 11.6 million people would have followed five other jurisdictions where both recreational and medicinal marijuana are now legal: the states of Oregon, Alaska, Colorado and Washington, along with Washington DC.
The affected cars date back to the 2009 model year, so the states’ legal strategy could implicate advertisements that aired or were published since then.
Ohio is considered a political bellwether, with the candidate who wins the state usually winning the presidency.
ResponsibleOhio stated that they will begin a new campaign tomorrow.
ResponsibleOhio reported spending more than $15 million on its campaign through mid-October and planned to spend another $5 million in the final weeks before Election Day.
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Curt Steiner, campaign director for the “no” on Issue 3 group Ohioans Against Marijuana Monopolies, said voters concluded Issue 3 was an unsavory abuse of the ballot issue process and nothing more than a business plan to seize control of the recreational marijuana market in Ohio.
