(12-7-23) Ohio’s GOP-controlled Senate passed a revised bill last night that will expand the voter-approved marijuana legalization law that goes into effect today—by allowing adults to start buying cannabis from existing medical dispensaries in as soon as 90 days, maintaining home cultivation rights and providing for automatic expungements of prior convictions.

The committee-approved legislation that would maintain adults’ right to grow up to six plants per person, though it would cap the household limit at six plants rather than 12 as set by the initiated statute.

Gov. Mike DeWine (R)

“We have an obligation to follow the will of the people, unless that’s changed at some point.”

“But we also have an obligation to make this work and to try to protect people who don’t want to be exposed to marijuana smoke, but also the people who are consuming marijuana to make sure that it is pure, that it is in fact it is safe. I think it’s a very, very good bill. And, you know, it’s an imperative that this thing get passed. What we don’t want is a situation where the black market grows.”

Ohio Gov. DeWine urging passage of changes to recreational marijuana law

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The full Senate approved the legislation in a vote of 28-2.