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Recreational marijuana sales in Ohio can start Tuesday at nearly 100 locations

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  1. [4]
    Turtle42
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    Ohio legalizing recreational before Pennsylvania does feels crazy. Good on them. Pennsylvania is about to be surrounded like New Hampshire is. What makes overall liberal governments drag their...

    Ohio legalizing recreational before Pennsylvania does feels crazy. Good on them. Pennsylvania is about to be surrounded like New Hampshire is. What makes overall liberal governments drag their feet on this kind of thing?

    7 votes
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      MangoTiger
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      My guess is that the pharmaceutical industry is larger in Pennsylvania than in Ohio

      My guess is that the pharmaceutical industry is larger in Pennsylvania than in Ohio

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      1. norb
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        It was passed by people getting signatures and a popular vote after a previous amendment failed due to it putting a monopoly on growers in to the state constitution. This one is a standard law...

        It was passed by people getting signatures and a popular vote after a previous amendment failed due to it putting a monopoly on growers in to the state constitution.

        This one is a standard law which let the state congress bloviate and the typical nuts to try to change it before it went into law (which hasn’t happened so far).

        There was A TON of messaging against it but it still passed by 60+%.

        My point is that I don’t think the pharmaceutical industry had much say one way or another.

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    2. MimicSquid
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      It's an easy "tough on crime" token to spend to polish otherwise indifferent law and order credentials?

      It's an easy "tough on crime" token to spend to polish otherwise indifferent law and order credentials?

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