Ohio has a plan to legalize marijuana in 2015 -- that even legal pot advocates don't like

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http://www.vox.com/2015/8/13/9146471/ohio-marijuana-legalization-vote

This November, Ohio will vote on whether to become the biggest state to fully legalize marijuana. But the measure is very different from what's come out of other legal pot states — and not in a good way, according to drug policy experts and legalization advocates.

Ohio is already an unexpected candidate for full legalization compared with the four legal pot states. It isn't especially progressive like Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state, or libertarian like Alaska. It doesn't even have medical marijuana yet, although it was one of the states to decriminalize pot back in the 1970s.

But what's truly unusual is how Ohio's Issue 3, as the legalization measure is called, is structured. It doesn't just legalize marijuana for medical and recreational purposes; it puts the wealthy contributors for the legalization campaign in charge of growing all the pot in the state — as an explicit gift for their support. That hasn't just rankled opponents of legalization, it has also pushed away some of the major national advocacy groups that would typically back a marijuana legalization measure.

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Knowing that a ballot measure would be very expensive, ResponsibleOhio, the group behind the state's legalization measure, structured its initiative to reward the top contributors to the campaign — and therefore get them on board. As a result, the state will only allow 10 marijuana farms, and the wealthy contributors signed on to the campaign will get guaranteed licenses to all 10 sites. These contributors vary — ranging from former 98 Degrees band member Nick Lachey to the local Taft family.

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1. Ohio will become a "grow your own" state. nt

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2. Ok. Once it passes, how are they going to determine if a person in Ohio that possesses an ounce got

it from one of the 10 Ohio growers, or got it from say, Colorado?

I'd like it to see legalization pass first, and then let them deal with the headache of determining whether pot is from the 10 growers.

Eventually, they'll probably just give up trying to enforce the identification and just allow all pot to be legal in the state.

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5. Similar situation here in MI

The Republicans here hate the medical marijuana law. They don't have enough votes to overturn it, but they are trying to regulate it to the point where you almost can't use or grow without violating some new regulation. They outlawed any selling of medical marijuana in the state by dispensary or co-op growers. To get marijuana you must have only one grower (caregiver) that you buy from. The problem is that growers have shortages for many reasons. (Sipder mites, powdery mildew, aphids, etc) They are very strict, recently arresting a patient for giving a joint to his friend, a patient as well. They called it a person to person sale.
But then they passed a bill saying if the medical marijuana is legalized by the federal government, the only grower in the whole state allowed to sell to patients will be a Canadian company. It's unreal. We have thousands of legal growers here obeying laws and ready to invest in their own operations if they legally could. But they excluded all MI residents and handed all the profit to a corporation from another country. Republicans- small government and liberty my ass!