Don’t vote with the DEA and Kevin Sabbett. If you wait for the”right” legalization you may need to pack a lunch because it will be a while. Legalization means no more marijuana searching drug dogs and no probable cause for the smell of cannabis. It is time to push forward with legalizing even if the “right” people don’t get rich. Amendments can evolve too this is not set in stone period. Don’t let stoners against legalization fool you this pendulum could swing back with a foolhardy move of voting to continue incarceration for possession of this beautiful and mind expanding flower. The sky did not fall in Washington with the “wrong” legalization in fact marijuana related arrests have plumited. How many mor Ohioans will lose their freedom before you realize counties would have to zone grows and wealthy land owners would rise to finance your states cannabis anyways. Wake up and smell the freedom Rob! Reply
Dear WazzuCyrus, You know, I did wake up free today, free because we have a constitution that guarantees certain liberties, and none of those liberties has to do with consuming cannabis. My liberty is to vote the way my conscience tells me, and it certainly isn’t telling me to align with the dishonest DEA or Kevin Sabbett, a classic fear monger-er. The game my friend is to end Federal Prohibition, the War on Drugs and de-scheduling cannabis completely and releasing non-violent drug offenders from prison/incarceration and clearing the records of those that have consumed cannabis and ended up with a record that just screws up their lives. But as I said in my piece and others have articulated, replacing one wrong with another is not a solution, its possibly an additional impediment for Ohioans to overcome if they ever want to see the “green” light of day. Just imagine the line of injunctions and litigation stemming from a yes vote on Issue 3. As you know, I am not the enemy, nor is Andy Joseph or others that see success in the state mandated programs in 24 states and the District of Columbia. None perfect yet all helping pave the way to eventual Federal capitulation. So let’s agree to disagree on Issue 3 and hope for the same conclusion, sooner or later! Cheers, Rob Meagher Reply
Oligopolies exist and controll America to this day. I’d doubt you would choose to not have a cell phone, cable television and only use bit coin in protest. Do you know what Rockefeller said in response to monitory regulations? “Give me controll of a nations wealth and I care not who makes the laws.” This says what we all know, he with the gold makes the rules. I think the only thing we might agree on with this is that the creature fom Jekyll Island aka the federal reserve needs to be destroyed. Money is power and businesses start with capital investment which will sideline many great heritage basement growers, who would then need to team up with investors even without this state oligopoly. To say that Ohio deserves legalization but only when money stops representing power in the form of oligopolies is ignorant and callous. Let’s see what happens when zoning has been taken care of. It takes lots money and power to legalize, investors like this are friends to the national movement towards freedom. California has failed time and time again to legalize because of greedy in-fighting. Now it looks like a big investor may be the ticket to stop arresting California citizens for a pocket of flowers. We need the money and power in a united front of successful states that legalize. We do not need more wedges to polarize our community and fall into the divide and conquer trap set by the controlling elite. Once we legalize federally this small state will have to compete with the west coast giants that have not been stifled in the least. Washington state just allowed producers to increase their canopy and some of them have multiple liscences and guess what, about ten of the top producers in the state are making the majority of the money. Just like there is about ten auto manufacturers that make the lions share of auto sales. This is a dumb reason to continue the black market in Ohio in which probably less than ten groups enjoy the cannabis money including the DEA. I will not agree to disagree because it gives into solipsism, I hope that logic and reason are enough to shine light on the truth. Reply
So I guess two wrongs make it right…I still agree to disagree and, unlike you, respect your opinion Cyrus! Reply
Condesendingly telling someone you respect them does not make you respectable, it makes you a liar. Go ahead an link elbows with project SAM and the DEA in this roadblock to legalization but before you do understand why I do not respect thwarters of legalization. An unregulated legal situation may be the opening Sabbet and his minions need to paint the picture Washington and Colorado could not. Look at the top of the screen Rob you work for cannabis buiseness executive how many of us in ohio are you helping with this advice? That’s right, none. You do not write for Forbes and you are not a congress critter it’s time you understood your demographic, me the cannabis business executive.