Ohio

As Ohio lawmakers push to reform the state’s medical marijuana system, business leaders within that system are gearing up to block the effort. They contend that easing the entry of new producers could overwhelm the market and threaten the industry’s viability overall. THE LEGISLATION Senate Bill 9

A Greater Cleveland legislator’s bill would give people arrested for driving or boating under the influence of marijuana a chance to produce evidence they weren’t impaired. That’s important because traces of marijuana can stay in the system for weeks, unlike alcohol, which typically lasts hours or

COLUMBUS - Medical marijuana patients near Columbus will soon be able to pick up prescriptions without leaving their cars. Amplify is preparing to open the doors to its second dispensary in Columbus, in the Preserve North neighborhood near New Albany. The dispensary arm of Cleveland-based cannabis

Voters in Oklahoma will decide on State Question 820, an initiative to legalize marijuana, March 7, 2023. Voters in Ohio could decide on an initiative to legalize marijuana in November 2023. Oklahomans for Sensible Marijuana Laws, which is leading the campaign in support of State Question 820

Ohio drivers are going to have to prove they weren’t high. A lawmaker in Ohio has introduced a bill that would help marijuana users in the state avoid a costly impaired driving charge. News 5 Cleveland reports that the legislation, introduced by a Republican state senator, “would change the

COLUMBUS - Ohio’s medical marijuana industry has too much pot and not enough patients to consume it. And, as an effort to fully legalize the drug inches closer to making its way onto the November ballot, the already-oversaturated medical marijuana market in the Buckeye State could encounter another

Voters in Oklahoma will decide on State Question 820, an initiative to legalize marijuana, on March 7, 2023. Voters in Ohio could decide on an initiative to legalize marijuana in Nov. 2023. Oklahomans for Sensible Marijuana Laws, which is leading the campaign in support of State Question 820, wanted

COLUMBUS - Ohio lawmakers are mounting another effort to pass a bill that would shift which government agency oversees the state’s medical marijuana program and widen who is eligible for a card. Sens. Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City) and Kirk Schuring (R-Canton) introduced Senate Bill 9 in the General

Mayor Justin Bibb has a new policy victory to celebrate. Driving the news: Gov. Mike DeWine has signed legislation to empower cities and county prosecutors to expunge low-level marijuana convictions. The legislation, an amendment to a sweeping criminal justice reform bill, was the result of lobbying

OHIO - A drug bust in Steubenville led police to find what they are calling a grocery store of drugs. Now Jefferson County officials are warning parents about the packaging of marijuana. The drug, what they call edibles, look like candy and the packaging appeals to kids. Some look like Jolly

In their first and likely only hearings of the session, two adult use marijuana measures came up Tuesday in a House committee. The proposals — one Republican and one Democratic — aren’t going anywhere this year. Sponsors remain optimistic about their chances in the next session, but even they

After years of slow and steady growth, the legal marijuana industry is grappling with a downturn amid surging levels of inflation and the potential for a recession. A number of plant-handling businesses, dispensaries and the tech companies serving them are retrenching as a result of a more