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.
They voted down because they didn’t want the 10 people running it to get ultra rich. If they put it on the ballot and just strictly say legalize pot, it will pass.
This is turning out to be an encouraging night across the board: Ohio remaining sober, Houston kicking the sodomite law to the curb, Kentucky electing a sane, conservative governor. Wow!!!
Nonsense. The article says the pro-pot ballot funding was $25 million vs $2.5 million against. The people resoundingly rejected the desires of the wealthy elite liberals and their radical social agenda.
Wrong. The issue 2 measure was put in place to counteract the monopoly problem. It didn’t get nearly as many yay votes as the pot measure got nay votes. More people were against pot than were against the monopoly problem.
Ohio probably will sell as much liquor as it used to.
The pot initiative had a poison pill in it that is even more poisonous than pot, namely, a state monopoly on the retailers.
Oh brother. Everyone on Earth but you say something different.
Evidently you’re OK with smoking crack.
SCOTUS struck down this outdated viewpoint that words have meaning; words no longer mean what they mean, they mean whatever makes someone feel warm and fuzzy inside. Case in point: Marriage.
Maybe there is a dimmer of hope after all. Weed failing in Ohio, Bevins winning, and Mississippi re elects a Republican Governor, thumbs up!!
There probably was a lot of petitio principii going on, where people educated in years past thought at once about problems generated by pot-dealing associated crime. No dollars were needed to get their reactions, well ingrained.
You would think that Prohibition, if not the Holy Bible, would have taught America that you can never ban a substance abuse problem away. You can put band-aids on it all you like. The problem is not too much pot but too little God.
The people that gave us Bhoner should have it legalized. they would then have an excuse for their voting. And likely be more intelligent in those choices.
Sorta gives new meaning to the joke - “What’s high in the middle and round on both ends?” “O-HIGH-O
What side was Kasich on?
The root of the problem is lack of morality but to say that law enforcement against drugs is not useful is wrong. We want our kids to resist temptation but we don’t want the tempters to operate unfettered either.
Singapore has draconian anti-drug policies and they work. O’Reilly tonight said hanging drug pushers in the U.S. might not be a bad idea for us either. The more widespread drug use gets, the harder it will be to fight. The answer is to fight it harder now before it spreads further using all forms of legal penalties and punishment.
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/14/draconian-singapore-has-low-rate-of-drug-abuse
Tomorrow or the next day or maybe one day next month, some libby judge somewhere will say that the people of Ohio are a bunch of marijuaphobes or something and throw the election out.
The Coloradoan potheads wouldn’t have given a crap who was selling the pot. They would have legalized it anyway to get their access to penalty-free highs. Ohio simply didn’t have enough potheads to make it pass. Not one pothead would’ve rejected the chance to make doing it legal no matter what strings were attached.
Watch those “provisional ballots” from the out of state potheads. Arizonans voted it down a few years back. Unfortunately, there were 88,000 “provisional ballots” that had to be counted that put it over the top.
I respectfully submit that your first paragraph may be true but that crypto-hucksterism meant to drive turnout is no better than ‘honest’(?) hucksterism.
Bad idea. It’s doubling down on stupid. No great fan of drugs personally, including pot, but I’ll happily see it legalized over increasing the size and scope of the police state.
Shooting people over traffic violations would work as well. That’s also a bad idea.
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