Ohio Throws Obstacles In Voter Approved Marijuana Legalization!

Ohio officially bans THC beverages and certain marijuana edibles. State has a declining population, low job growth, stagnant wages and poor infrastructure. Republicans care more about vices than fixing this fucking state.

Sharia Law isn't in Ohio.

But we might as well have it because white Christian nationalist Republicans and their token Blacks are running Ohio into the ground with laws that impose their fucked up perversion of Christianity. Instead of trying to mind their business, keeping religion out of state laws, worrying about fixing the roads and growing the state, they want to your personal lives. They want to get into your bedroom, your doctor's office, your smoking venue and your adult content.

Vice is more important to Republicans than bring jobs, fixing roads and making Ohioans have better paychecks.

Oh, Democrat Amy Acton is leading Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio governor race. Still speculative due to Ohio being a Republican stronghold now.

 

As he wraps up his second term as governor of Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine and state Republicans decided to defy the voters who approved the resolution to legalize all brands of canibus and marijuana consumption in the public.

Just like the Ohio resolution that codifies Roe vs. Wade, the Republicans in state legislation will just push for more draconian regulations to override the will of the people.

Even their stupid adult content verification law is having an effects on content creators from this state. People who struggling with this crappy economy are turning to adult content to generate revenue. Some of the content is through OnlyFans, PornHub, Fansly and XVideos to create videos to promote adult entertainment.

It is a parent's responsibility to choose what children see online. Why is Ohio meddling in the business of a parent or legal guardian?

Starting today, Ohio will ban THC infused beverages, lowering marijuana intakes and the rollback of grow. Instead of having 12 public marijuana plants, they reduced to five or six.

They also imposed arrestable offense to obtaining marijuana based products from states that legalized all products. Michigan, Illinois, New York and Missouri have no regulations on consumption unless operating in a vehicle. 

Ohio now prohibits anyone from purchasing any THC drinks or edibles from states that allow it.

The governor's executive order and Republican passed legislation has placed bans on marijuana branded edibles. A push to draft a resolution to overturn this SB 56 law that DeWine signed failed to generate signatures. 

Until then the law in place.

Opponents of Ohio Republican lawmakers’ attempt to ban intoxicating hemp products and change the state’s voter-passed recreational marijuana law failed to collect enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot this year to block it.

Ohioans for Cannabis Choice would not say how many signatures they gathered. They needed to collect 248,092 signatures and also needed to gather 3% of an individual county’s gubernatorial turnout in 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties to get on the Nov. 3 ballot. 

“Unfortunately, we were not able to overcome a truncated time period to give voters the chance to say no to government overreach,” Dennis Willard, spokesperson for Ohioans for Cannabis Choice said in a statement. 

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost initially rejected the referendum’s summary language in January, but approved it in early February after Ohioans for Cannabis Choice made changes to the language. 

JD Vance (now Vice President), Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, Gov. Mike DeWine, Jon Husted (now U.S. Senator) and Fran DeWine. This is during DeWine's 2022 reelection campaign.

The plan was to submit the collected signatures to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Thursday for him to verify the signatures. This was the deadline to submit signatures since Ohio Senate Bill 56 takes effect Friday and it will ban intoxicating hemp products — including THC-infused beverages. 

DeWine signed the bill into law in December after he had been urging the lawmakers to do something about intoxicating hemp products for the past nearly two years.

On the federal level, Congress voted in November to ban products that contain 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container when they voted to reopen the government. Previously, the 2018 Farm Bill said hemp can be grown legally if it contains less than 0.3% THC.

There is a one-year implementation delay for the federal hemp ban, but states can create their own regulatory framework before then.

Ohio’s new law will change Ohio’s marijuana law by reducing the THC levels in adult-use marijuana extracts from a maximum of 90% down to a maximum of 70%, cap THC levels in adult-use flower to 35%, and prohibit smoking in most public places.

It will prohibit possessing marijuana in anything outside of its original packaging and criminalizes bringing legal marijuana from another state back to Ohio. The legislation also requires drivers to store marijuana in the trunk of their car while driving. 

“Marijuana will be re-criminalized in Ohio, businesses will close, workers will lose their jobs, and consumers will be denied their right to products they should be able to purchase,” Willard said in a statement. 

Ohioans voted to legalize marijuana in 2023, recreational sales started in August 2024, and sales totaled more than $836 million in 2025.

“Voters overwhelmingly supported legalizing cannabis in 2023,” Willard said in a statement. “It only makes sense that Gov. DeWine and state lawmakers should go back and ask those voters if they want to ban hemp and re-criminalize marijuana. We know, and our elected leaders know, the answer would be a resounding no.”

Ohio Cannabis Coalition and the Ohio Cannabis Coalition and Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol — the group behind Issue 2 on the 2023 ballot — opposed the attempted referendum. 

Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman, Republican from Lima said he was not surprised the referendum failed to get enough signatures. 

“This would have had two sectors of the same community essentially, as we say, the hemp guys and the marijuana guys fighting against each other,” he told reporters Wednesday. “I don’t think it was viable from a financial standpoint for them to referendum that bill.”

Referendums are rare and the last one that passed in Ohio was when voters overturned an anti-collective bargaining law in 2011.