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Woah Ohio legislators are serious about gutting the voter approved ballot measure to allow adult-use cannabis and growing 6 plants at home per person. HB 86 legislation would remove home cultivation! How are these guys still calling themselves REPRESENTATIVES?

“Whatever is ultimately decided must reflect what Ohio voters approved. The politicians had numerous chances, numerous decades, to change Ohio’s antiquated laws. They refused.”

Ohio ACLU Slams GOP Plan To Gut Voter-Approved Marijuana Law (Op-Ed)

“Whatever is ultimately decided must reflect what Ohio voters approved. The politicians had numerous chances, numerous decades, to change Ohio’s antiquated laws. They refused.” By Gary Daniels, ACLU of Ohio via Ohio Capital Journal Less than a month ago, Ohio voters approved marijuana use...

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Among the changes they plan on approving this week are a bunch sure to keep Ohioans flocking to Michigan and navigating Ohio’s black market. Issue 2 approved home growing. HB 86 eliminates it all. Zero plants. Issue 2 established limits of 35 percent THC for plant products and 90 percent for extracts. Under HB 86, those numbers are chopped to 25 percent and 50 percent, respectively. HB 86 says you can drive with marijuana. But only if it is in your trunk, in its original, unopened packaging. So, only from the dispensary to your first trip home.


Issue 2 set a sales tax rate of 10 percent. HB 86 increases that to 15 percent, a 50 percent increase. HB 86 also imposes a 15 percent tax on growers. Guess who ends up ultimately paying that? Ohioans who thought they would be paying 10 percent will be paying (at least) triple that, courtesy of the alleged Tax Cut Crowd. After all this, I suggest labeling HB 86 the Michigan Dispensaries Full Employment Act.

HB 86 also blatantly discourages dispensaries from operating or starting in the first place. It forbids dispensaries within a whole mile of each other. Plus, it outlaws dispensaries within 500 feet of various public places, such as libraries and parks, well more than a football field in all directions. Taken together, it appears these provisions will leave dispensaries with very little choice where to operate, especially in medium and large-sized cities, and even many small towns, that otherwise welcome dispensary business. On a related note, Issue 2 provided for 350 dispensaries. HB 86 slices that to 230, a decrease of one third. So much for letting the free market decide.

The last change I want to point out is the most insensitive and unforgiving of them all. Issue 2 contained numerous, thoughtful provisions in recognition of the many Ohioans arrested and convicted of marijuana offenses. The idea is many of those directly impacted by the unwise and counterproductive pre-Issue 2 laws should also benefit from the legalization and monetization of marijuana and this new system. The Senate GOP removed every single word, continuing the ongoing Statehouse trend of trampling all over voters’ wishes and demands.

Ohio ACLU Slams GOP Plan To Gut Voter-Approved Marijuana Law (Op-Ed)

“Whatever is ultimately decided must reflect what Ohio voters approved. The politicians had numerous chances, numerous decades, to change Ohio’s antiquated laws. They refused.” By Gary Daniels, ACLU of Ohio via Ohio Capital Journal Less than a month ago, Ohio voters approved marijuana use...

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Read Ohio SB86: A Threat to Medical Marijuana, Home Grow, and THC Caps Under Issue 2

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Key Amendments Proposed:

1. Home Grow Prohibition: Ohio HB-86 seeks to eliminate provisions allowing individuals to grow cannabis at home, stripping away this fundamental right and potentially curbing personal autonomy in cultivation.
2. THC Caps Adjustment: The proposal aims to lower existing THC limits on medical marijuana products, which could limit patient access to specific treatments or therapies available in higher THC concentrations.
3. Dispensary License Limitations: The amendment could restrict the number of available dispensary licenses, possibly leading to reduced accessibility to cannabis products for patients.
4. Tax increases on rec sales to 15 percent .
5. Ohio medical cannabis patients can not smoke.
6. Adds tax to cultivators
7. Adds new restrictions to hemp industry related to d8 and other goods sold in cbd shops .
8. No money for social equity.
9. Nothing about espungment.
10. Allows landlords to evict people for using cannabis.
11. Allows employers to fire people for using cannabis.

 

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Ohio legislators are serious about gutting the voter approved ballot measure

That's exactly what I was afraid of when we legalized here in Canada. A couple of our provinces did restrict aspects of the legislation but the majority went ahead & we got something that is livable.

 

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Thankfully there is another Republican bill which preserves the votor approved measure except small differences such as no sharing cannabis between adults. Seems silly to make that illegal. Are you allowed to share beer?

I would immagine that harsh bill won't get enough votes to pass. That would make anyone who votes for it look bad since it was a voter approved measure, its going against the will of the people who approved the ballot measure. Seems kind of stupid to attempt to make such drastic changes.

Ohio Senators Take Testimony On Controversial Marijuana Legalization Overhaul As House Republican Files Alternative Bill

Ohio senators held a second meeting on a bill to significantly change the state’s marijuana legalization law that’s set to take effect this week, hearing public testimony amid sharp criticism of the GOP-led effort. In other chamber, meanwhile, a Republican representative has filed alternative...

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Marijuana Policy Project (MPP)

https://www.mpp.org/states/indiana/

Last update: November 14, 2023

Interim committee considers legalization ahead of 2024 legislative session​

In November 2023, the Interim Study Committee on Commerce and Economic Development held a six-hour meeting examining “the legalization of adult-use cannabis in Indiana as it relates to workforce impacts and teen use.” The committee ultimately did not make any recommendations for the 2024 legislative session.
During the 2023 legislative session, several cannabis reform measures were introduced, including bills to legalize medical cannabis and to decriminalize possession of small amounts of cannabis. Although one decriminalization bill, HB 1287, received a committee hearing in the House for the first time, no cannabis bills advanced out of committee.
Indiana is increasingly an outlier when it comes to cannabis policy. Three of its four neighbors have legalized cannabis for adults 21 and older — Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio. Indiana is one of only 12 states with no effective medical cannabis law and one of only 19 that still imposes jail time for simple possession of cannabis. Under current law, possession of even a single joint is punishable by up to a year of incarceration and a fine of up to $5,000.
Make sure your lawmakers know this issue matters to voters; ask them to support cannabis policy reform!

Medical: Ask your state legislators to support a compassionate, comprehensive medical cannabis program.

Decriminalization: Let your lawmakers know it’s time to stop arresting cannabis consumers. Ask them to support changing the penalty for possession from possible jail time to a civil fine.

Legalization: Urge your lawmakers to end cannabis prohibition in Indiana and legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis for adults.

 

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Excellent, they passed a good bill! Tomorrow's the day. Smoking one to celebrate!

Ohio Senate Approves Bill To Allow Marijuana Sales From Dispensaries ‘Immediately’, Keep Home Grow And Expunge Records

In a stunning reversal, Ohio’s GOP-controlled Senate passed a revised bill that in many ways would expand the voter-approved marijuana legalization law that goes into effect on Thursday—by allowing adults to start buying cannabis from existing medical dispensaries in as soon as 90 days...

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In a stunning reversal, Ohio’s GOP-controlled Senate passed a revised bill that in many ways would expand the voter-approved marijuana legalization law that goes into effect on Thursday—by allowing adults to start buying cannabis from existing medical dispensaries in as soon as 90 days, maintaining home cultivation rights and providing for automatic expungements of prior convictions, among other changes.
Just days after the Senate General Government Committee advanced legislation to fundamentally undo key provisions of the cannabis initiative voters passed at the ballot last month—proposing to eliminate the home grow option and delaying legalization for at least one year until adult-use retailers started sales, for example—the panel dramatically walked back the measure and passed it in a unanimous bipartisan voice vote on Wednesday.
The full Senate then approved the legislation in a vote of 28-2.

Although the Senate has moved quickly to institute changes to the legalization law before it takes effect on Thursday, it is not clear if the House is also ready to make any reforms on an expedited basis—meaning that one form of legal cannabis could take effect this week only to potentially be reformed within a matter of days.
The overhaul of the measure comes one day after the Senate panel held a hearing and received public testimony on the initial proposal, with many advocates and stakeholders expressing frustration with the seeming undermining of voters’ decision and recommending changes such as freeing up medical cannabis dispensaries to start servicing adult consumers while regulators develop rules to license recreational retailers.

Sen. Rob McColley (R) detailed the latest changes following negotiations during an extensive recess in committee on Wednesday, stating that lawmakers’ focus “needs to be stamping out the black market” and also “protecting the access that the people of Ohioans voted for,” while ensuring that the administrative implementation “runs as efficiently as it possibly can, while protecting opportunities for for Ohioans to engage in this new industry.”
Committee Chairman Michael Rulli (R) said that over “the last three or four days, a lot of the public has reached out to probably every single one of our senators with thousands of emails and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of calls.”
“I think the people have spoken,” he said.

Rather than do away with home cultivation, the committee-approved legislation would maintain adults’ right to grow up to six plants per person, though it would cap the household limit at six plants rather than 12 as set by the initiated statute.
As initially attached to an unrelated-House passed bill on alcohol regulations earlier this week, the measure would have effectively re-criminalized possession of marijuana unless it was obtained from a state-licensed retailer, which couldn’t start sales for at least one year from the effective date. That change was removed and replaced with language to “immediately” permit adults to buy cannabis from existing dispensaries as the adult-use market is established, McColley said. That could happen within 90 day’s of the bill’s passage, he explained.

 

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Indiana now surrounded on three sides by recreational marijuana

In Bloomingtons Exclusive Smoke and Vape, shoppers can find all sorts of marijuana accessories and legal alternatives. But no marijuana.

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Cannabis advocates not letting legislature snuff out their efforts

It's highly unlikely Indiana lawmakers will consider legalizing marijuana when the next session begins in January.

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Majority of Hoosiers support legalization, lawmakers reticent

More than 50 percent of people in the 2022 Hoosier Survey said they support full legalization of cannabis for adults.

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Feds Release 250+ Pages Of Redacted Documents On Marijuana Rescheduling Recommendation, Detailing Cannabis’s Medical Value​

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Feds Release 250+ Pages Of Redacted Documents On Marijuana Rescheduling Recommendation, Detailing Cannabis’s Medical Value

More than three months after news leaked that the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) was recommending that marijuana be moved to Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the agency has finally released a tranche of documents related to its recommendation and...

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More than three months after news leaked that the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) was recommending that marijuana be moved to Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the agency has finally released a tranche of documents related to its recommendation and the detailed review it undertook on cannabis’s accepted medical value.


Among the materials newly made public are correspondence from HHS officials to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram as well explanations of the health agency’s reasoning for the recommended change after conducting a required eight-factor analysis under the CSA. Most pages are heavily redacted, however, and some were withheld completely.


The documents were posted online Thursday by attorneys Shane Pennington and Matt Zorn, coauthors of the blog On Drugs. Zorn previously submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain the records.



“We haven’t had a chance to wade through it all,” the two lawyers wrote, “but are putting it up here now and will follow up as soon as we’ve studied everything more deeply.”


In response to the FOIA request, HHS “reviewed 252 pages of records,” releasing just two pages in their entirety. Another 236 were redacted in part, while 14 pages were withheld completely. All the released documents are embedded at the end of this article.


Broadly, the documents outline new scientific information that’s come to light in recent years subsequent to an earlier denial of a rescheduling petition, which HHS suggests might now necessitate rescheduling marijuana.


“The current review is largely focused on modern scientific considerations on whether marijuana has a CAMU [currently accepted medical use] and on new epidemiological data related to the abuse of marijuana in the years since the 2015 HHS” evaluation of marijuana under the CSA’s eight-factor analysis.



HHS also notes that it “analyzed considerable data related to the abuse potential of marijuana,” but added that it’s a complicated consideration.


“Determining the abuse potential of a substance is complex with many dimensions,” HHS wrote, “and no single test or assessment provides a complete characterization. Thus, no single measure of abuse potential is ideal.”


Most subsequent pages of the document were withheld completely.


HHS’s director of FOIA appeals and litigations said in a letter to Zorn that the sections were redacted pursuant to a provision of FOIA law that exempts “intra-agency memorandums or letters that would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency.”


In October, HHS released a highly redacted version of the one-page letter from the health agency to DEA in response to public records requests by news organizations such as Marijuana Moment and lawyers, including Zorn.



With the rescheduling recommendation now in DEA’s hands, many are watching closely for updates.


While the Congressional Research Service (CRS) recently concluded that it was “likely” that DEA would follow the HHS recommendation based on past precedent, DEA reserves the right to disregard the health agency’s advice because it has final jurisdiction over the CSA.


Earlier this week, the governors of six U.S. states—Colorado, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Louisiana—sent a letter to President Joe Biden (D) urging the administration to reschedule marijuana by the end of this year.


“Rescheduling cannabis aligns with a safe, regulated product that Americans can trust,” says the governors’ letter, which points to a poll that found 88 percent of Americans support legalization for medical or recreational use. “As governors, we might disagree about whether recreational cannabis legalization or even cannabis use is a net positive, but we agree that the cannabis industry is here to stay, the states have created strong regulations, and supporting the state-regulated marketplace is essential for the safety of the American people.”



The office of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D), who led the group letter, said rescheduling “will not only alleviate the financial and safety concerns for businesses but allow a thriving industry to play a full role in the American business environment.”


One of the first state officials to react to the HHS rescheduling recommendation, Polis told Biden in a letter in September that while he expects DEA will “expeditiously” complete its review and move marijuana to Schedule III, the policy change must be coupled with further administrative and congressional action to promote health, safety and economic growth.


Meanwhile, six former DEA heads and five former White House drug czars sent a letter to the attorney general and current DEA administrator voicing opposition to the top federal health agency’s recommendation to reschedule marijuana. They also made a questionable claim about the relationship between drug schedules and criminal penalties in a way that could exaggerate the potential impact of the incremental reform.



Signatories include DEA and Office of National Drug Control Policy heads under multiple administrations led by presidents of both major parties.


In October, Advocates and lawmakers who support cannabis reform marked the one-year anniversary of Biden’s mass marijuana pardon and scheduling directive this month by calling on him to do more—including by expanding the scope of relief that his pardon had and by expressly supporting federal legalization.


Two GOP senators, including the lead Republican sponsor of a marijuana banking bill that cleared a key committee last month, recently filed new legislation to prevent federal agencies from rescheduling cannabis without tacit approval from Congress.



A coalition of 14 Republican congressional lawmakers, meanwhile, is urging DEA to “reject” the top federal health agency’s recommendation to reschedule marijuana and instead keep it in the most restrictive category under the CSA.


Read the collection of newly released HHS documents below:

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Ohio Legalization Measure Takes Effect

Voter-approved Issue 2 legalizes the possession and home-cultivation of marijuana by adults

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Ohio: Voter-Approved Legalization Measure Takes Effect​

• by NORML
• Posted on December 7, 2023

Provisions in Issue 2 legalizing the possession and home-cultivation of marijuana by adults took effect today — 30 days after the measure was passed by 57 percent of Ohio voters.
“Today, for the first time since the adoption of federal marijuana prohibition, more US citizens reside in jurisdictions where cannabis is state-legal than live somewhere where it is not,” NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said.
The law allows for the possession of up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana and/or 15 grams of marijuana extract by adults. Adults are also permitted to grow up to six plants for their own personal use.
“As a native Ohioan who has been directly impacted by marijuana criminalization and witnessed the unequal and unjust way it is enforced, I am overjoyed that responsible adult cannabis consumers in the Buckeye State will no longer face the lifelong collateral consequences of low-level arrests and convictions,” NORML’s Political Director Morgan Fox added. “I’m further pleased that our political opponents have, thus far, failed to undermine the spirit of this law — which was approved by 2.2 million Ohioans. It is up to all Ohioans to ensure that lawmakers continue to defer to their constituents and allow the rest of this initiative to take effect as intended under the guidance of regulators, stakeholders, and the citizens of Ohio.”
Immediately following last month’s election victory, leading Republicans — including Republican Gov. Mike DeWine and Senate President Matt Huffman — called for legislative reforms gutting core provisions of the initiative. (Because the proposed measure was put before voters as a statutory question rather than a constitutional amendment, state lawmakers can amend or repeal its provisions.) Then on Monday, Senate leaders introduced legislation eliminating Ohioans right to grow cannabis while simultaneously seeking to delay the adoption of Issue 2’s marijuana possession laws, among other changes. That plan was met with resounding resistance from voters, pundits, and members of House leadership. (A NORML action alert, issued earlier this week urging lawmakers to respect the will of majority of Ohio voters, was sent to lawmakers over 7,500 times.)
Late Wednesday, members of the Senate largely reversed their position and voted in favor of substitute language preserving Issue 2’s adult-use possession limits and home grow rights (though lowering the maximum number of allowable plants per household from 12 to six.) Additional provisions in the bill establish a process whereby Ohioans can apply to have past, low-level marijuana possession convictions automatically expunged and expedite adults’ ability to purchase cannabis products from existing medical dispensaries. However, other provisions in the Senate bill prohibit adults ability to gift marijuana to one another, amend tax rates, and impose a lower THC cap on marijuana concentrates, among other changes.
House members last night refused to take up the Senate bill. House members are currently debating their own chamber’s bill to modify certain aspects of Issue 2, but have indicated that they are in “no rush” to pass anything.
Any modifying legislation passed by lawmakers will not take effect until 90 days after it is signed into law.
NORML’s Armentano has previously criticized Republican lawmakers in other states, such as South Dakota and Mississippi, for spearheading efforts to repeal voter-approved marijuana legalization laws.
Ohio is the 24th state to legalize the adult-use marijuana market, and it is the 14th do so by a public vote.

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Medical Marijuana Growers And Caregivers Can Own Guns, But Patients Can’t, FBI Says In Little-Noticed Memo

Being a state-registered medical marijuana caregiver or grower doesn’t automatically disqualify a person from owning a firearm, the FBI says. But merely possessing a medical cannabis card as a patient does render a person ineligible. Amid the growing tension between federal gun policies and the...

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Cannabis advocates discuss potential benefits of legalization in Indiana​

Story by Matt Gotsch • 3d

GOSHEN, Ind. (WNDU) - Numerous local pro-cannabis organizations held a town hall at the Goshen Public Library on Thursday to discuss the health, legal, and community components of marijuana reform in Indiana.

 

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Home - Hoosier Veterans for Medical Cannabis

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A message from the founder…​

My name is Jeff Staker I have served 11 years in the Marines as a Scout Sniper/DI, approximately 4 years as a Basic and Advance NCO Instructor at the Indiana Military Academy and finishing out my military career as an Air/Crash/Fire/Rescue with the Indiana Air National Guard, Ft. Wayne.

For the past 22 plus years I have worked at the Grissom ARB, as both a DoD Security Police and currently as a DoD Civilian Firefighter and am looking forward to retiring within the next year.
As a longtime member of the VFW, American Legion and DAV I have been involved with many issues that affect our Veterans’ health, rights and privileges and this endeavor is by far going to be the most controversial and beneficial as I and hopefully “we” attempt to change our States’ Laws as it pertains to the medical use of cannabis and at the same time inform and educating our citizens of the misconception cannabis (or marijuana) has had on our society for the past 75 years.
As most of us military men and women are familiar with the five paragraph order (or SMEAC), I am formulating the bylaws of this non for profit organization Hoosier Veterans for Medical Cannabis, Inc.(HVMC) in the same fashion.
The Situation is: Within the US one person every 20 minutes dies of either an accidental and or intentional overdose to prescription pain medication. Doing the math that’s 3 every hour, 72 a day and so forth. It has been report that our Veterans are overdosing at twice the rate of civilians….in other words 2 of the 3 causalities within the above hour time frame are Veterans. This shouldn’t be, nor does it have too, especially within our great State of Indiana.
The Mission of HVMC is: To inform, educate, lobby, support and maintain legislation for the “legal” Medical use of Cannabis within the State of Indiana. In addition, when we have fought and won for the legalization of Medical Cannabis, HVMC will work with our legislators to continuously review, revise and update legislation as may be necessary from time to time. i.e. recognizing residents from out of State that are Medical Cannabis patients …and so forth.
On a national level HVMC will fight to petition our Federal Government to reduce Cannabis from a Schedule I (fraudulently noted) to a Schedule II rating under the Substance Control Act of 1970 and to petition the Veterans Affairs in making policies to more freely prescribe and recommend Cannabis to our Veterans in lieu of the fatal prescription practices we have been so accustomed too.
Execution: As of 25 July 2016 The Office of the Secretary of State of Indiana did certify that Hoosier Veterans for Medical Cannabis, Inc. as a Domestic Nonprofit Corporation. HVMC did receive a Federal EIN through the Internal Revenue Service and has applied for a 501 tax-exempt status.
Administration and Logistics: Hoosier Veterans for Medical Cannabis is self-funded through the contribution received through its’ web site, donors and or received via mail that is publicly posted.
Command and Signals: Though I am placing myself on the skyline (which is a no no for any infantryman but a necessity for this campaign) I have not placed myself as a President or CEO, but my status, as when I applied for the above corporation is only as an “Organizer.” I can only picture myself as one of a hundred thousand fellow Veterans that believe that it is time for our State to legalize the medical use of cannabis. HVMC thus plans to network through our States’ military organizations such as the VFW, American Legion, DAV, AMVETS and their Auxiliaries etc..(and for the benefit of the general public as necessary) in the desire to recruit at least one HVMC volunteer/supporter from every post throughout the State in petitioning their Indiana State Representative and Senator to enact State Laws in support of Medical Cannabis.
The volunteers/supporters should identify him/herself to the HVMC and their affiliation. Identify both elected State official from their area and the approximate number of other patrons that would support forthcoming laws in favor of Medical Cannabis.
Volunteers/supporters should think of (but not limited to) the following:

• Talk to local Media/Newspaper publications about HVMC.
• Get a consensus from their State Representative/Senator as to their support and or opposition to State Medical Cannabis Laws.
• Develop hand written petitions and signatures of patrons that support HVMC.
• Emphasize support of any means to the HVMC movement (and from the general public).
• Contact your local medical community or doctor for a written opinion of Medical Cannabis.

In closing may I say that, the cost of the freedom we share is buried under the battle grounds We and our fellow Veterans fought upon, paid with our blood and of all who deserved to bare the torch on our States’ Flag for this campaign can be none other than you the Hoosier Veteran.
Thank You for Your Support/Semper Fi.
-Jeffery P. Staker

 

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Indiana remains 'an island of prohibition' as surrounding states legalize marijuana. Some hope that changes.

Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum to legalize recreational marijuana on Nov. 7, making Indiana one of a shrinking minority of states that still prohibit pot.

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Cannabis advocates not letting legislature snuff out their efforts

It's highly unlikely Indiana lawmakers will consider legalizing marijuana when the next session begins in January.

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Media is promiting the issue of reform, however they are still misrepresenting it to prolong the issue. They all cite the one vocal man Kieth Johnson as a supporting voice, but no effort to have other voices such as doctors explaining the benefits. No voice from the local prosecuting office where Indianapolis, capitol city, has made cannabis the lowest law enforcement priority. See who this goes? Media is up to something, its no good.

Meda shows the owner of a synthetic THC and hemp oil bar in the city. They make every effort to promote the cannabis abuser stereotypes and the storyline of propaganda, while they minimize the facts surrounding cannabis itself.

But the media all promote this piece of work, bred for the specific purpose of prohibition.

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Brock Patterson, director of government affairs for the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council.

Completely out of step with the capitol of Indianapolis' Prosecutor's office the largest in the state which has made cannabis the lowest law enforcement priority!

 

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Here's what Hoosiers can expect Indiana lawmakers to do in 2024​

Story by Brittany Carloni and Kayla Dwyer, Indianapolis Star

Marijuana and gaming​

Indiana is still not likely to see movement on marijuana legislation in 2024, despite momentum in the public sphere through the actions of Ohio voters who approved legalizing recreational use through a ballot initiative earlier this month.


Taylor said lawmakers need to act on cannabis before Indiana falls behind other states, but Bray said movement seems unlikely. Huston agreed.


“No one has made a compelling case to me yet on why legalizing marijuana or having more people use cannabis in the state of Indiana is a positive thing,” Huston said. “Until I hear that answer, I wouldn’t expect a whole lot of change.”


Contact high: Ohio voted to legalize recreational marijuana. Why Indiana is unlikely to do the same

 

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State Marijuana Legalization Has ‘Not Really Impacted’ Teen Use, Federal Official Says As New Youth Survey Shows Stable Trends

Teen marijuana use has not increased “even as state legalization has proliferated across the country,” a federal health official said on Wednesday in announcing the latest data from an annual survey that again showed prohibitionist concerns about youth cannabis access have “not played out.” The...

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States That Ban Marijuana May ‘Unintentionally Promote’ Unregulated Delta-8 THC Products, Federally Funded Study Finds

People in states where marijuana is illegal are significantly more likely to have used products containing lesser-known cannabinoids like delta-8 THC, signaling that prohibition may “unintentionally promote” usage of the loosely regulated products, according to a new federally funded study...

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