Ohio’s New Medical Marijuana Law May Make Users Buy Cannabis on the Black Market

June 30, 2016
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Ohio’s medical marijuana law takes effect Sept. 8, people can possess and use the drug without going to jail.

But the new law doesn’t specify where people can get marijuana.

Lawmakers have said that until the state’s dispensaries are set up, residents can travel to Michigan or another legal state and bring marijuana back. But legal experts say doing so would violate state and federal laws, as well as a key provision of the federal government’s hands-off approach to regulating state medical marijuana programs.

So most people will likely buy marijuana through Ohio’s existing black market.

Here’s why. [Read more at Cleveland.com]

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dorsey thompson says:

September 4, 2016 at 11:02 am

If this was a law to lower the taxes on the rich, there would not been any problem at all. Whats wrong in Ohio is the Republicans having total control of everything.

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