A bi-partisan invoice to legalize hashish has been launched in Ohio by state Reps. Casey Weinstein (D) and Jamie Callender (R) would enable the cultivation, buying, and possession of hashish by Ohioans over the age of 21, and permit for the expungement of conviction data for earlier cultivation and possession offenses.
The measure features a 10% tax on gross sales which might be distributed partially to assist main and secondary training, assist communities that host dispensaries, fight drug dependence and unlawful drug trafficking, and into the state common fund.
“It’s time for Ohio to behave on this earlier than we fall an excessive amount of additional behind our neighbors. Grownup-use is nice for our financial system, good for our justice system, and the appropriate factor to do. Ohioans are able to legalize hashish, and I’m proud to supply this bipartisan invoice to get it accomplished.” — Weinstein in a press release
In an announcement, Callender added that the U.S. is “more and more heading in direction of the de-scheduling of hashish merchandise on the federal stage” and “Ohio has a chance to get forward of the curve in growing its hashish trade.”
“By means of the growth of Ohio’s profitable Medical Marijuana program to all Ohioans, we won’t solely be constructing upon greatest practices from across the nation however using the teachings discovered right here in Ohio,” he mentioned.
Below the invoice, Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Management Program can be prolonged to additionally regulate the cultivation, processing, and sale of adult-use hashish merchandise. It might be renamed the Division of Marijuana Management to replicate its function in operating each the medical hashish and adult-use packages and be housed inside the Division of Commerce.
The legalization invoice continues to be awaiting a committee project.
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