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.
The msm was totally wrong on this one. Good for the adults who voted this down for the sake of the next generation.
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.
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!
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
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!!!
Maybe there is a dimmer of hope after all. Weed failing in Ohio, Bevins winning, and Mississippi re elects a Republican Governor, thumbs up!!
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?