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No Vested Interest

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6. It was to be embedded in the state constitution - practically impossible to fix -

Reply to Logical (Reply #5)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 10:46 PM

Nov 2015

especially after the businesses/farms are up and working.
10 rich groups, including a Taft relative and Oscar Robertson, basketball great, were part of it.

It's far easier to just fail to enforce, if that's the general consensus.
Federal prohibition is still on the books, but seldom enforced.

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Marijuana loses in Ohio. [View all] RandySF Nov 2015 OP

It was a bad bill I voted no after I read it rbrnmw Nov 2015 #1

Agreed, I'd probably have voted against it to if I lived in Ohio ShadowLiberal Nov 2015 #12

Darn, bad news. A win for the anti-pot crowd. nt Logical Nov 2015 #2

No it was a bad bill rbrnmw Nov 2015 #3

Still, will empower the anti-pot groups. A win and fix later was a better solution. nt Logical Nov 2015 #5

It was to be embedded in the state constitution - practically impossible to fix - No Vested Interest Nov 2015 #6

CA failed in 2010 and has not tried since. They will try again in 2016. nt Logical Nov 2015 #7

A lot has changed since 2010, on many issues - No Vested Interest Nov 2015 #8

Hell even Willie Nelson was against it! B Calm Nov 2015 #9

I read an article in Vox this week that many legalization supporters were opposed to this measure tritsofme Nov 2015 #4

No, Big Weed Monopoly failed. morningfog Nov 2015 #10

..... OhioChick Nov 2015 #11

Did polling show this was going to pass? ShadowLiberal Nov 2015 #13

Not the polls I saw Bradical79 Nov 2015 #14