Marijuana Legal in Ohio?

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Yuko would like to see a number of licensed nurseries around the state growing and dispensing marijuana in limited amounts to patients whose doctors have issued them a prescription. He is careful to distinguish his plan from California-style dispensaries, which typically include neighborhood shops operating like liquor stores.

“It’s not about Cheech and Chong,” he says. “The government would control it, and it would be in limited quantities.”
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When he puts it like this, "under government control", I'd rather see it kept illegal.

If the government was so concerned about drug control, then why haven't they made any effort to control drugs many times more harmful than marijuana? At least one doctor in Dayton and another near Cincinnati make their money by writing out prescriptions for drugs such as Xanax and Valium and neither of these very harmful drugs with their countless side-effects are regulated in any way.

That little snippet of news from City Beat put the whole prospect of medical marijuana in Ohio in a negative perspective for me. There's no way that I want to see anything at all under strict government control, especially when there's so many more harmful substances that they could focus on.

As for me, I'll grow what I need and smoke what I want illegally. I imagine most Ohio tokers will do the same.


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been sayin that for years..... the government is so full of shit. they have ingrained it into peoples head that marijuana is so bad that we have families mothers fathers and children taking every pill you can imagine while at the same time saying marijuana is bad. i feel sorry for how completely retarded they are.

.....not to mention ALCOHOL! Lol I don't come home get high and beat my wife hahaha

im ohio grown and im with you guy........

I hail from the big O too and this is a bit displeasing to hear. Supposedly MMJ is going up for vote this November. I wonder what the bill will look like if it comes now...

My guess is that growing marijuana will be regulated in the same way tobacco is in the tobacco states. I don't think users will be able to grow their own, because doing so would remove the "Government Control" clause. Then you have to have a prescription to go to the nursery and buy your pot. I can't see anything like this as making Ohio a marijuana-friendly state. It will be the same old shit flushed with a different hand.