Republican lawmakers in Ohio final week accepted a decision opposing the hashish legalization query that shall be put to voters within the state subsequent month and urging residents to vote ‘no’ on the proposal.
The decision contends that “the industrial marijuana business” paid to write down the statute after which “paid to gather the signatures to get the proposed regulation.” It additionally ties the state 33,000 overdose deaths between 2011 and 2020 to hashish by linking them to the debunked “gateway” drug concept and claiming common hashish use “greater than doubles the danger of creating opioid-use dysfunction or initiating nonmedical prescription opioid use,” regardless of proof that a number of research have discovered hashish performs a job as an exit drug for some individuals who stop opioid use.
“We, the members of the Senate of the State of Ohio, conclude that the proposed statute authored by the industrial marijuana business doesn’t serve the very best pursuits of the individuals of Ohio, will convey unacceptable threats and dangers to the well being of all Ohioans, particularly kids, will create risks within the office and unacceptable challenges and prices to employers, will make Ohio’s roads extra harmful, will impose vital new, unfunded prices to Ohio’s public social companies, and serves solely to advance the monetary pursuits of the industrial marijuana business and its buyers.” — SR 216 text
The decision says by voting ‘no’ on the reforms, voters could be preserving and defending the “state’s top quality of life,” well being and security of its residents, power and prosperity of its communities, robust financial development, favorable surroundings for enterprise success, and “alternative for all residents and the longer term for our younger individuals.”
The reforms are additionally opposed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Affiliation of Well being Commissioners; nonetheless, a September ballot by Fallon Analysis discovered 59% of Ohioans again the proposal with 32% opposed and 9% not sure.
Not one of the Senate’s Democratic lawmakers signed onto the decision.
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