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Today Ohio voters are deciding on legal medical and recreational cannabis. Polling would indicate most are in favor of legalization, generally speaking.

 

As this article points out however, the ballot issue has become broader than just cannabis. Passing the initiative would mean that just 10 farms could commercially grow the product for the entire state and those 10 farmers just happen to be the folks that funded and put the ballot initiative together.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/opinions/nadelmann-ohio-marijuana-legalization/index.html

Edited by Bob in Mich
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Today Ohio voters are deciding on legal medical and recreational cannabis. Polling would indicate most are in favor of legalization, generally speaking.

 

As this article points out however, the ballot issue has become broader than just cannabis. Passing the initiative would mean that just 10 farms could commercially grow the product for entire the state and those 10 farmers just happen to be the folks that funded and put the ballot initiative together.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/opinions/nadelmann-ohio-marijuana-legalization/index.html

 

Now worries. Just smoke a big fat spliff and everyting gonna be alright mon.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaGUr6wzyT8&list=RDzaGUr6wzyT8#t=0

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Today Ohio voters are deciding on legal medical and recreational cannabis. Polling would indicate most are in favor of legalization, generally speaking.

 

As this article points out however, the ballot issue has become broader than just cannabis. Passing the initiative would mean that just 10 farms could commercially grow the product for entire the state and those 10 farmers just happen to be the folks that funded and put the ballot initiative together.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/opinions/nadelmann-ohio-marijuana-legalization/index.html

 

Shocked, yes, shocked I am that the purity of the cannabis movement can be corrupted by capitalism.

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Polling would indicate most are in favor of legalization, generally speaking.

It lost.

Um, understatement of the year.

 

It lost by 2-1. Disclaimer: I am a "legalize all drugs immediately" libertarian. I have been ever since I learned the basic tenets of economics. The only reason all drugs remain illegal? Emotional screeds currently trump basic economics. Currently. Currently, because while any fool understands emotion, it requires intelligence to comprehend economics. If at some point in the future more people use their heads, and understand that demand is demand, and markets are markets, things will change. However, today, a whipping is a whipping.

 

The operative word above is "polling". "Most"? Turns out that's the opposite of right.

 

The Democrats had the 2nd worst night yesterday. The pollsters took a worse beating.

 

Polls had the KY R gov losing...clearly...otherwise known as "perception changing polls". Instead, the Tea party and R social conservative base showed up and destroyed the D candidate, and, further destroyed the D party in KY, by defeating yet another power broker in the KY Senate Minority leader.

 

But, the polls told us all different: These MFers are at it again.

 

The funny part is, none of it matters. The leftist media can tell all the wishful stories, and spike all the polls it wants.

 

Nobody is listening.

Edited by OCinBuffalo
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This IS America after all. What did you expect?

 

I expected pot would cure the evils of capitalism.

 

Since according to Bob, it cures every other damned thing.

Posted (edited)

The operative word above is "polling". "Most"? Turns out that's the opposite of right.

 

 

I think the polls were accurate with respect to Ohio voters' opinions on cannabis. The reason the Ohio ballot initiative failed had more to do with the ballot language concerning the commercial grow rights than voters' views on cannabis, imo. This means that a lot of pro-cannabis people voted against this proposal.

 

From the article:

A Quinnipiac University poll released last month found that 53 percent of Ohio voters supported recreational marijuana, as opposed to 44 percent who opposed it. The poll also found that 90 percent of Ohio voters supported medical marijuana, compared with 9 percent who opposed it. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/ohios-rejection-legal-pot-leaves-future-142040543.html;_ylt=A0LEViN86TpWAkAAXpInnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--

Edited by Bob in Mich
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I think the polls were accurate with respect to Ohio voters' opinions on cannabis. The reason the Ohio ballot initiative failed had more to do with the ballot language concerning the commercial grow rights than voters' views on cannabis, imo. This means that a lot of pro-cannabis people voted against this proposal.

 

From the article:

A Quinnipiac University poll released last month found that 53 percent of Ohio voters supported recreational marijuana, as opposed to 44 percent who opposed it. The poll also found that 90 percent of Ohio voters supported medical marijuana, compared with 9 percent who opposed it. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/ohios-rejection-legal-pot-leaves-future-142040543.html;_ylt=A0LEViN86TpWAkAAXpInnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--

So stoners can't read a ballot. Makes sense.

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NY Governor Cuomo signs bills to speed up medical cannabis distribution

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/nyregion/cuomo-signs-2-bills-to-speed-up-medical-marijuana-distribution.html

 

From the article

 

Under the bills, approved by the State Legislature this year, the State Health Department is to set up a separate program to “create an expedited pathway” for sick New Yorkers whose lack of access to the drug “would pose a serious risk” to their lives.

 

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said in a statement accompanying his signatures that he “deeply sympathized with New Yorkers suffering from serious illness, and I appreciate that medical marijuana may alleviate their chronic pain and debilitating symptoms.”

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