Posted on 11/03/2015 7:04:14 PM PST by tcrlaf
Ohio voters have rejected a ballot measure seeking to legalize recreational and medical marijuana use in the state.
Failure of the proposed constitutional amendment follows an expensive campaign, a legal fight over its ballot wording and an investigation into the proposal's petition signatures.
Didn't see that one coming.
liberals , druggies, and liberaltarians, which are all the sane will be disappointed.
Good for Ohio!!!
Me either and I live in OH. Guess we aren’t a lost cause after all. LOL
Let’s see how NV does with the marijuana ballot initiative next year. Me, I’m votin’ NO. And the universal background check initiative as well. NO!
Time to go on the offensive — start jailing pot dealers and smokers. Give mandatory 20 years to the dealers and 10 years to the smokers. There will be a compromise — only then — the libtards will agree to a soft criminalization.
Until a lefty judge finds the vote objectionable.
The msm was totally wrong on this one. Good for the adults who voted this down for the sake of the next generation.
Did the same with in state gambling and yet we now have casinos ... just give the pot heads some time and pot will be legal here as well. Sad
Looks like mayor anise porker’s bathrooms open to perverts legislation is going down in houston.
The title is misleading. They voted it down because the ballot language gave a monopoly on growing and marketing pot to 10 people/investment groups in the state. And it put that monopoly IN THE CONSTITUTION.
It would be like the state putting 10 wineries in the constitution, or 10 corn farmers, or....
It was cronyism on steroids.
That’s why it was voted down.
These ballot issues are always spearheaded by some smug, slick Music Man type whose primary but secret objective is to a) get stoned legally and b) make a buck from others getting stoned.
They arrive with the worst sort of boilerplate: it will be a legal and economic panacea etc. In Ohio’s case, the measure included some good old cronyism with sales and production licenses - all supervised by the state (ie the same outfit that can’t fix potholes) and subject to the usual corruption and kickbacks.
The black market has and will always undercut the legal market.
They also made gambling a monopoly in Ohio with 4 places legal to gamble.
If issue 2 passes, it could be a headache for legalized gambling as it is now written.
Ballot wording means nothing these days.
Ballots are in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.
Can’t have one amendment with 4 different wordings. Words mean things.
There was some pop star singer that invested millions in anticipation of legalization..... His cronism effort failed!
It wasn’t voted down on such a picayune issue. It was resoundingly rejected. People have seen the chaos and insanity resulting in the states like Colorado that have legalized and are coming back to their senses. Of course, even if this was on the ballot at the same time as Colorado’s measure, it would’ve been rejected, because Ohio hasn’t been invaded by far-left California fruits and nuts.
The issue to legalize pot for recreational and medical use is going down 65 percent to 35 percent, losing in all 88 counties with more than 48 percent of the statewide vote counted.
“At a time when too many families are being torn apart by drug abuse, Ohioans said no to easy access to drugs and instead chose a path that helps strengthen our families and communities,†said Gov. John Kasich in a statement.
The ballot initiatives to legalize pot aren’t always Music Man hucksterism. Sometimes they are desperate moves by Democrats to bring new young voters to the poll with hopes they will pull straight D ticket ballots.
The legislatures are free to address this issue. Many legislatures were unwilling to legalize homosexuality and same sex marriage as well.
In Texas, at least, there is some rumbling that Republicans in state office will push some legalization legislation (although the governor may strike it down).
Crony fascism.
A lot of this was done by the PRO-cannabis campaign. They *really* hated the 10 farm monopoly idea.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/willie-nelson-crusade-stop-big-pot.html?mid=fb-share-di
Here’s the vote tally on Issue 3 (the pot amendment) from Cleveland.com (http://www.cleveland.com/election-results/index.ssf/2015/11/statewide_results_for_ohio_iss.html)
YES 819,949
NO 1,515,981
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