Ohio Issue 2 and Issue 3

[argubs2]

Issue 3 legalizes medicinal use of marijuana and recreational use for those 21 and older. It restricts growing sites to ten, all under the umbrella of different but connected investment groups. Limited personal growing is allowed with the purchase of a $50 license that needs to be renewed annually.

Issue 2 prevents the use of the state constitution to establish monopolies, oligopolies, or cartels, etc...this would effectively invalidate Issue 3 if passed.

If both measures pass, the courts will surely be deciding the resolution.

Thoughts?

Ohioans, how will you vote?

 

[mashburned]

The issue with Ohio is it sucks ***. Period.

 

[jwheat]

When Mash buys from Ohio, I will

 

[UKserialkiller]

We're getting recreational in 2016 florida. That's the word on the streets.

 

[bigblueinsanity_rivals250340]

Any government not willing to legalize it at this point are just being stupid. Saw that Colorado is realizing over $100 million PER MONTH in additional revenue from legalization.

Meanwhile, in Kentucky it took all out political war to get industrial hemp legalized just a few years ago.

 

[UKserialkiller]

Oregon made $11 million in the first 5 days of being open. haha

 

[mashburned]

When Mash buys from Ohio, I will

You gonna starve.

 

[jwheat]

I still have to drive a county over to get some bourbon made in Kentucky

 

[KentuckyStout]

Issue 3 legalizes recreational and medicinal use of marijuana for those 21 and older.

Just curious - why would medicinal marijuana be restricted to those 21 and older?

 

[argubs2]

21+ is for recreational, thanks for pointing that out. I meant to flip recreational and medicinal in the sentence.

Anyone prescribed could utilize medicinal....for example, concentrated CBD has displayed very positive results in treating epilepsy / seizures in young children.

 

[MegaBlue05]

If they pass legal pot, I'm moving one state north.

 

[funKYcat75]

So would the KY highway cops just set up roadblocks on the bridges in Cincy?

 

[We-Todd-Did]

So would the KY highway cops just set up roadblocks on the bridges in Cincy?

Every state bordering Colorado did.

 

[MegaBlue05]

So would the KY highway cops just set up roadblocks on the bridges in Cincy?

I doubt it.

Seems like there's more to worry about in Covington and Newport than adults inhaling the fumes of a burning plant, but those bridges are the gateway to the bible belt, so you just never know.

 

[mashburned]

I doubt it.

Seems like there's more to worry about in Covington and Newport than adults inhaling the fumes of a burning plant, but those bridges are the gateway to the bible belt, so you just never know.

Lol Ky has 4828938383 counties man. Best believe they're gonna be lookin for easy money. Rural towns *love* roadblocks now.

 

[argubs2]

Honestly not sure how the KY police would ultimately react.

Is it feasible to check every car coming across the bridges during rush hour? Obviously not. Could I see later evening checkpoints being setup? Yes, I do think they might attempt that, at least initially.

The difference between the other states and specifically NKY / Cincy is the concentration of traffic. It's easy for Kansas to funnel people into a rest area checkpoint on 70 without affecting traffic. In NKY / Cincy, you have people crossing the river multiple times daily.....and for many, home or their destination in NKY is a matter of minutes away, easily accessible using low traffic roads. There isn't really an extended stretch of highway they could efficiently setup a checkpoint on unless they push it south of the main NKY hub.

And at that point, anyone with a brain would've hit the backroads anyway.

So, do I think the KY police will lay down on this? Absolutely not. But....I think it's going to prove to be very, very difficult for them to manage.

 

[argubs2]

Another thing I've thought about is potential cooperation between Cincy and KY police. For example....maybe a Cincy cruiser spends an hour near a parking lot of a dispensary checking for KY license plates, and communicates the make / model of the vehicle to a KY team across the river.

Sounds like an unbelievable waste of time and resources (and I really have no idea what the legality of that would even be) but I wouldn't put it past the KY police to attempt something like that if they could get buy in.

Probably just general paranoia speaking there. If someone wants to debunk that one, feel free.

 

[mashburned]

They would absolutely do that in order to catch peeps trafficking it to KY. That is their job. They're gonna do it.

 

[funKYcat75]

So in other words, buy the stuff, smoke it down at the river and head up to the top floor of that hotels that spins around. Does it still spin?

 

[Violent Cuts]

I'm likely voting for both actually.

 

[Ron Mehico]

As someone that lives in Ohio, let me tell you how beyond unexpected and amazing this is. I've actually never voted before - but I will be this year.

No on 2, Yes on 3.

 

[MegaBlue05]

If this backwoods *** state was smart, we'd legalize too. Big if, I know.

Pension system? Funded fully in a few years.
****** infrastructure? Also improved within a few years.
Maybe eastern Kentucky could start some sort of marijuana tourism industry and become more similar to Gattlinburg than Deliverance.

Might even curb the heroin/pill/meth epidemic (not eliminate) if people could spark up without fear of jail.

Our soil is fertile and wonderful for growing, but by all means, let's keep pimping booze (that isn't legal in all counties) instead.

 

[UKserialkiller]

Legal weed could also help finance the cocaine fields too.

 

[Ukbrassowtipin]

Just a note about roadblocks..I learned this in traffic school btw, the police have to inform the media when they are setting up a roadblock. Apparently someone sued on the grounds that taxpayer money was being used without his knowledge after being stopped at a roadblock and he won.

 

[MegaBlue05]

Legal weed could also help finance the cocaine fields too.

I haven't smoked what we used to call a "Chevy" in 15 years. Sign me up.

 

[VT/UK Rondo]

Great. Now maybe the Ohio Navy will stay home on the weekends and smoke dope and stay the hell off of our lakes. Maybe it will help their driving too...sure as hell couldnt hurt it.

 

[Kooky Kats]

... Somewhere Gatewood Galbreath's rotting corpse is giving a barely audible, stoned-dude giggle.

 

[jwheat]

Great. Now maybe the Ohio Navy will stay home on the weekends and smoke dope and stay the hell off of our lakes. Maybe it will help their driving too...sure as hell couldnt hurt it.

Unless you can somehow go back into time and make the person not be born in Ohio, they aint drivin no better

 

[jwheat]

Not gonna lie Mash, Ill probably buy off Ohio on occasion.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Great. Now maybe the Ohio Navy will stay home on the weekends and smoke dope and stay the hell off of our lakes. Maybe it will help their driving too...sure as hell couldnt hurt it.

[laughing]

Oh, but the horror stories I could relate about that mob from back in the day.

 

[UKYcat1865]

Real simple for the cops--if it makes them hard they'll enforce it.

 

[ktbug]

The bible thumpers don't want you to drink, gamble, or smoke weed. By outlawing it in Ky, nobody can do the sin triumvirate. Case closed.......

 

[VT/UK Rondo]

Coming soon to I75 south...

 

[GYERater]

which isnt true at all

 

[RacerX.ksr]

which isnt true at all

No **** dude, it's just a movie.

 

[Cawood86_rivals]

ThOhio sue with Ohio is it sucks ***. Period.

I vote Kentucky destroys all bridges connecting to ohio

 

[jwheat]

I'm just pumped that legal weed is closer than the Rockies now

 

[ukfan606]

Kentucky will have medical marijuana after the other 49 states have recreational marijuana available for at least 5 years.

 

[Bill Bryson's Beard]

Another thing I've thought about is potential cooperation between Cincy and KY police. For example....maybe a Cincy cruiser spends an hour near a parking lot of a dispensary checking for KY license plates, and communicates the make / model of the vehicle to a KY team across the river.

Sounds like an unbelievable waste of time and resources (and I really have no idea what the legality of that would even be) but I wouldn't put it past the KY police to attempt something like that if they could get buy in.

Probably just general paranoia speaking there. If someone wants to debunk that one, feel free.

I think Cincy cops are happy to push crime into NKY for us to deal with. Can't see them cooperating with the cops at all.

 

[argubs2]

Just about a week away.

From what I can tell based on polls and other information collected from the interweb....it's going to be very, very close. Really thought this would be DOA, but I'm not sure that is the case at this point.

LET'S GO MILLENNIAL VOTERS LET'S GO

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