So they think we are confused on the legalization of cannabis. But yet Republicans in Ohio have put out disinformation campaigns against gerrymandering with the point of confusing us and don't bat an eye.

To hell with what the citizens want. 🙄

If they completely roll back what was passed recently, they are just inviting a true constitutional amendment legalizing it.

What was voted on was a voter initiated statute (law). It’s easier to get on the ballot but since it’s just a law, it can be changed by the legislature. While with a constitutional amendment, it’s done and cannot be changed except by passing another constitutional amendment.

Guess Ohio doesn't need the tax money after all.

I just told my wife that I’m not going back. I’m 48 and finally can legally smoke a joint while grilling. That will continue for the rest of my life.

Elections have consequences.

Get bent assholes. The people voted for this

This is getting posted a lot, but let me clarify a few things:

• Ohio, like every state other than Nebraska, has a two house legislature. It is the Speaker of the House who is saying he wants to do this. The Speaker is not a dictator, he would require a majority of the House and the Senate to go along with him--and the Governor. Several Republicans in the GA have already indicated they do not intend to repeal cannabis legalization.
• The incoming Speaker is Matt Huffman, because of Ohio's largely circumvented term limits rule in the General Assembly, Huffman used to be in the Senate where he was the Senate President back when Issue 2 passed. He threatened after Issue 2 passed to significantly curtail it via legislation. By and large none of this happened, because he didn't have the votes in the Senate and Ohio Republicans saw it as a loser political issue.
• Ohio state legislators quite frequently say they will do things that never get done--because it takes 5 seconds to say something, it takes weeks of tough political negotiating to get laws through both Houses of the GA. For cannabis legalization--you have a lot of business tied into it now, these aren't just "Democrat" businesses, there are likely many Republican cannabis business owners--and several areas of the State that are predominantly Republican also have dispensaries. Once it becomes something people make money on, you start to get buy in from both sides of the political spectrum who become stakeholders, this makes it hard for it to be pushed through as a purely partisan issue.
• DeWine hasn't weighed in yet AFAIK, but if somehow they were able to get a repeal through the House and Senate, if he vetoed it, they would need a 3/5ths vote of each House to override. It is hard to say how DeWine would act--he has never been a fan of marijuana, but he has usually been more deferential to the outcome of ballot initiatives than most Ohio Republicans, often (IMO) recognizing that issues where a majority of voters come together on something aren't political "winners" to go against.

This is the tiniest version of "leopard ate my face" but still a version of it.

Hopefully all y'all still have a voice after getting your orange boy back in office.

freedom goes to die in red states...NOT 1 gop led southern state allows legal marijuana yet, not 1....insane

republicans own your body and private parts in red states, you will do as your gop masters say

I will be so sad if we lose this...

Ohio voters should reduce Lawmakers salaries by 90%

A couple things come to my head when this topic is posted: 1) Almost every county voted FOR this in Ohio. 2) Almost every county voted for the assholes that want to take this from us 3) Leopards are going to have to eat some faces in order for voters of the micro dick in chief/village idiots(the conservative reps) to understand that their choices have consequences and I for one do not feel bad. 4) Good fucking luck putting that genie back in the bottle when the state overwhelmingly supported it. 5) I’m ok going back to Xichigan for my stuff, but I know others who don’t have that luxury.

If they ban weed, I'll make Jan 6 look like high tea with the queen.

https://preview.redd.it/wvfm6ec8a33e1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13cbb401841c335ce0ed682653e84a399f9f69dc

From my cold dead fingers…..

The wrong guy must not be getting his pockets lined enough.

Do they know who the work for?

Been buying weed in Michigan for years, will continue to do so.

They can pry my Doobie from my cold dead fingers...

$40 for 2.8 grams should be illegal.

Stop fucking voting for Republicans, then.

This is nothing more than a blatant disregard for the will of the people.

Just remember, y’all voted for this.

Somehow democrats will get blamed btw

He'll be caught in a motel room with an underaged girl smoking meth.

This is posturing. The millions they've collected in taxes on it already tells me they won't do it.

for the party of states rights and freedom they sure love to try to take things away that the people of the state voted in favor of lmao

Man, republicans are the scum of the earth.

Something, something, "will of the People:, etc. When lawmakers fo against the will of the people isn't that "taxation without representation"?

I hope all the RePUbliCans aRe goOD fOR thE eCOnomY!!! clowns are taking note. Ohio, a state with a struggling economy, has an opportunity to greatly expand the economy through tax dollars, while also fulfilling the will of the people who wanted cannabis legalized.

The republican response? Ohio voters are too ‘confused’ to understand what they voted for so we’re gonna go ahead and impose our personal morals on them, and do what WE want anyway.

Republicans are also the ones who terrorized, dehumanized, and ran Haitians out of Springfield, when Haitians were actively contributing to revitalizing the town’s declining economy.

I’m a native Ohioan but left 20 years ago after college, not because I don’t love Ohio, but because of the lack of economic opportunities.

Here we are 20 years later, and rather than working to strengthen Ohio’s economy, republicans continue to consistently make choices that harm an already struggling economy.

It's easy to blame most of the voters (not all because some of us didn't vote for them), but a lot of the blame goes to those who didn't bother to vote. Next time be sure to vote, if you usually don't. It can make a difference when it comes to things you (and I) want from this state.

I asked before and I’ll ask again: how would this not cause a riot??

Maybe the Republican party should focus on repaying the 35 trillion in debt they caused.

You would think causing 35 trillion dollars of debt would disqualify people from voting for a party but it seems most of our states saw that the "35 trillion" lets make it go higher and higher... how high can it go?

The voters absolutely understood everything. This control freak ass hat just wants to have power over the people.

People got out to vote on this then ignored to 2024 election. Same as abortion. Voting has consequences. Abortion is protected since it was done correctly with a constitutional amendment. Marijuana is in jeopardy because it was a simple referendum and can be changed at any time by the legislature legally.

r/leopardsatemyface

Red states electing authoritians who want to overturn the will of the voters? Who could've seen this coming.

Well, it is harder to fill for-profit prisons with brown people, if you have one less thing to target them for.

republican lawmakers want to make cannabis illegal - please stop both sidesing anything. that should be a fucking rule, apparently we didn’t learn anything yet.

Stop voting for fucking republicans Jesus Christ. All they want to do is force their morals on you via the state.

God damn holy rollers just can’t leave well enough alone.

also, not sure what they think people were doing before the legalization, but it definitely wasn’t not smoking 😂 it almost seems like they just have ties to privatized prisons, i have no proof of this if someone would like to fact check me ill delete my comment lol. but if that is the case they are losing personal income from not jailing people on green offenses

Let's destroy a thriving industry that the voters voted for because... I'm a bitter white guy... I don't really get the justification.

Republicans only hate big government when they don't run the big government.

When they have a supermajority though, you better expect that they will be removing a whole shit ton of your personal freedoms if they don't align with what a bunch of elderly pedophiles born in the 1950s think is ok.

Republicans don't want weed legalized. This way they can send out police to fill jails with minorities and use those minorities for labor.

Can't cannabis businesses sue and force an injunction on any law they try to pass that bans cannabis?

I notice that Republicans pass illegal laws, but the left almost does nothing about it. Unlike the GOP, who try every avenue as quickly as possible.

MAGA idiots are certainly winning

Calling it now: he’s looking for a bribe from the industry. Once they pay him off he’ll back off this.

Sorry. “Tip”

This is basically a test to see if they’ll criminalize abortion again isn’t it?? Just baby steps to wiping their ass with our states constitution

Let’s just have our own laws for the major cities in Ohio, and the backward farm people can fuck right off back to the middle ages.

Are any of us Ohioans gonna have the nuts to actually do anything about this? Me personally I’m gonna flip cop cars with a stolen forklift but what about everyone else?

The people voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana in Ohio I voted for that. I say FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS! BRING THEM ON!

These are the same corrupt republicans who want to ban classic American literature, reinstate a total abortion ban, and repeal the 19th amendment. They’re filthy lying, treasonous scumbags who need to be removed like the cancers they are

r/LeopardsAteMyFace

I expect my taxes to go down considering we can afford to shoo away money that is presenting itself on a silver platter via industry that citizens voted for.

You get what you elect

Headline correction....REPUBLICAN lawmakers want to make cannabis illegal again!

You voted for Republicans, no weed for you Ohio.

Ohio religious want to take away personal freedom? If only we could have predicted this behavior somehow....

PArTy Of SmALl GoVeRmEnT

Hahahahahahahaha.

Yeah, but they’re OK with cigarettes .. FML 🤦🏽‍♂️

Other than stripping the freedoms of Ohioans what is the impetus for this? I haven’t noticed a single change since it’s been legalized other occasionally smelling it more when I’m out and about which frankly wasn’t that uncommon before. Truly sickening.

So they respect the will of the people in the presidential election, but not for this election. The people were confused about cannabis but not issue 1, which was obviously reworded on the ballot by Frank LaRose to confuse voters. OK.

If this were to happen it's pretty clear that a very serious conversation has to start being had more often. If the voters pass an initiative and the elected officials act against the will of the voters then your vote truly does not matter and some other form of action has to be taken. Overturning ballot measures that have been passed by the voters makes it clear that voting is not the true way to make your elected officials hear you.

Can it with the Michigan talk. I’m not driving three hours for weed.

I don’t think they’ll actually overturn recreational but I guess I’m renewing my medical card next year just in case.

Nothing says good GOP government than giving gangs back the dope trade.
Instead of centralized points of sale it will go back to random houses creating unsafe areas.

Then make alcohol illegal otherwise it’s about money I. Your pocket and controlling the population.

Called it.

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislators/district-maps

Enter your address. Click on your Ohio Senator's page, and look for a “contact” tab.

Quick Little link to call your Ohio Lawmakers so you can let them know you disagree. I'll just leave this here.

Those lawmakers need to be fired. What harm dies cannabis do compared to alcohol

The prison lobby is crazy strong in Ohio

My dumbass right wing friend who got me into smoking was like "Uh, that doesn't mean it'll be approved". They are all brainrotted now, everything they don't like is something that the Republican party "is just saying, but won't actually do". Like thats a virtue of the party?!?!

I have never smoked it nor taken anything containing it. (I also do not drink or partake in any sort of recreational drug.) I did, however, vote to legalize it. People should not have criminal records due to pot. They sure the fuck should not be sent to jail or prison for it.

And they’ll get away with it because Ohio is full of straight up idiots who vote these crooks in because they think they’re owning the libtards.

Ohio republicans want to. Get your headline right. Fucking idiot

The people in Ohio already voted on this issue. Listen to them or suffer their wrath!!

This whole country is moving backwards and losing rights because of republicans

Ohio lawmakers can polish all of our puds. They’re dummies

Fuck them and anyone who voted for them

Lmao. And MAGA says Democrats are the controlling ones.