COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Gov. Mike DeWine said on Thursday that he plans to sign the new cannabis bill that would make adjustments to Ohio’s recreational cannabis use laws, including new legal charges for things like improper transportation.
Voters legalized the adult use of marijuana in 2023, and that will not change under the new law— Senate Bill 56. The bill does, however, include various new restrictions that Ohioans might not be expecting.
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DeWine said he will be signing the bill because of young people, even though opponents say the legislature and the governor are chipping away at marijuana rights that the majority of Ohioans supported at the ballot box.
“My concern has been with kids,” DeWine said. “We have kids, kids who eat gummy bears. And you know, the hemp, the people who have promoted this hemp — it was originally designed normal hemp is not very high in THC, by definition, it’s not. What they’ve done is they’ve taken a loophole in the law, and they’ve used the hemp, and then they’ve juiced it up, basically, and now it’s, you know, it skirts the law with no regulation, no regulation on advertising. So this is finally, they’re doing that. So that’s a good thing.”…