Issue 3 was not for Ohioans
The first thing is that giving ten investors control of a million maybe billion dollar Industry did not make sense. Even if you wanted to legalize marijuana why make a law that would create a black market of the current system of distribution. Any law made should allow for all Ohioans to benefit from it, not a select few,
Second and most important is not the legalizing of marijuana but the legalizing of Hemp. Hemp is a crop that can help Ohio framers in many ways. It is a cash crop that can used in rotation with corn a major crop in Ohio, any law should reflect this. As well as way to protect this crop from contamination by marijuana plants that could destroy the Quality of the crop and the profits. Look at research done at Purdue and in Canada where framers have been growing hemp for over ten years now to see the importance of this crop to Ohio.
Legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational use could then but put in place that would not create a burden for law enforcement try catch everyone who refuse to pay for the corporate priced goods but, the goods of the guy they trusted for years.
Simply put, there should be a License to grow, to sell, and to distribute marijuana for medical and rec use. While allowing Ohio framers to grow Hemp crops to compete in the vast markets that uses this crop around the world.
When I sat down to write I believed that the cotton industry would benefit from growing hemp, blending hemp and cotton my research surprised me.
