TYT: The Real Reason Ohio Didn’t Legalize Weed

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Ohio voted against the legalization of marijuana, but not for the reason you might think. The law would have only allowed a handful of private investors to profit from the sale of cannabis. Activists believe that is the wrong approach and actually fought against the legalization. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and John Iadarola (Think Tank) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

Would you have voted for the measure? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-votes-legalizing-pot-medical-recreational-174223541--politics.html

“Ohio voters rejected a ballot proposal Tuesday that would have legalized both recreational and medical marijuana in a single stroke — a vote-getting strategy that was being watched as a potential test case for the nation.

Failure of the proposed state constitutional amendment followed an expensive campaign, a legal fight over its ballot wording, an investigation into petition signatures — and, predominantly, a counter campaign against a network of 10 exclusive growing sites it would have created. It was the only marijuana legalization question on the 2015 statewide ballots.

About 65 percent of voters opposed the measure, compared to 35 percent in favor.”

[misterhighwasted]

1. Now That makes sense.

I believe Colorado, at one time, sought to limit the size & diversity of pot business owners, to prevent this very issue from happening.
The intent was to encourage small business partcipation & prevent corporate multi businesses who are seated in a foreign country or in the US.

The intent was to keep out big bisiness & dark money.
Ohio voters did the right thing.
This needs to go back to the drawing board if the State is serious about being proMJ.

[freebrew]

2. Only one other weed is regulated so tightly...

opium poppies.
There's really no comparison, but poppies should be off the list as well.
This country went bonkers with the prohibition on anything that folks enjoy.
The puritans don't want anyone to enjoy themselves.

It's a fucking weed! It doesn't harm anyone.

I'm not even going the 'not-addictive' road. WHO CARES?

I'd rather be addicted to poppies than to suffer the reality of the last 20 years of this nation heading down the road to fascism.

The whole drug war is a scam.

[Stevepol]

3. That result, 65%-35% is ridiculous and a clear sign, IMO, that voting machines

were probably responsible for this result. The points made about the approach taken might be relevant but I can't see it as being that big a problem. In OH, the voting machines have been deciding elections since 2004 when Kerry lost the presidency due to voting machine shenanigans. They are completely brazen now in their rigging and stealing of elections by using the voting machines. See the following links, which don't point specifically at OH:

http://bradblog.com/?p=11428

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016136093

Watch for later posts from the battleground state of OH about possible voting machine tampering in the marijuana vote and in other votes to come.