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Ohio voters could legalize adult-use recreational cannabis as soon as next year. At an announcement on Monday, Jimmy Gould and Ian James — the businessmen behind both Ohio’s failed legalization effort in 2015 and a medical marijuana company that was denied a license by Ohio officials last week — told reporters that they will introduce a ballot measure to fully legalize the plant in the state in coming months, with plans to spend “whatever it takes” to put the question in front of voters by next November.
In the public announcement, Gould touted the yet-to-be-written “Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Amendment” as “the best amendment that we think will pass and does the most good for Ohioans.”
And while all regulations are strictly hypothetical at this point, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, the duo said that, if passed, the ballot measure would legalize the growth, sale, and possession of recreational cannabis and industrial hemp, while creating a statewide licensing system for marijuana production and distribution much like, as the legislation’s tentative name suggests, the state’s beer and liquor industry.
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