A bill heavily amended in the Ohio Senate in response to the passage of Issue 2 is awaiting action by the Ohio House of Representatives.
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Recreational Marijuana Legal in Ohio Beginning this Week
A law legalizing recreational marijuana will take effect in Ohio beginning Thursday, meaning adults over 21 will be allowed to possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana and up to 15 grams of marijuana concentrate.
Read the full storyOhio Voters Pass Statewide Issues 1 and 2
Ohio voters passed both statewide issues on the ballot Tuesday, according to unofficial election results published by the Ohio Secretary of State’s office.
With the passage of Statewide Issue 1, a constitutional amendment, Ohio will now allow for late-term abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, nullifying the state’s current law, which permits abortions up until 22 weeks of pregnancy for any reason.
Read the full storyOhio Voters to Decide Abortion Rights, Recreational Marijuana Tuesday
With early in-person voting concluded, Ohioans head to the polls Tuesday to decide on constitutional amendments on reproductive rights and marijuana legalization.
Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.
Read the full storyOhio State Senator Disagrees with Report Citing Overall Benefit of Legal Marijuana
An independent, Columbus-based analysis group believes approving recreational marijuana would mean hundreds of millions of tax dollars for the state.
But a state senator thinks it’s not worth it.
Read the full storyPoll: Ohioans Show Strong Support for Abortion Rights and Recreational Marijuana
Less than three weeks before Election Day a new poll shows Ohio voters favor constitutional amendments on enshrining abortion rights and legalizing recreational marijuana.
The Baldwin Wallace University poll of 850 registered voters, with 750 identified as likely voters, showed 58% favor Issue 1, which says every individual has a right to make and carry out their reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility, treatment, continuing one’s pregnancy, miscarriage care and abortion.
Read the full storyProgressive Ohio College Town Continues Push to Let Noncitizens Vote
Democratic officials who run the village of Yellow Springs, a progressive college town near Dayton, are persisting in their effort to legalize noncitizen voting.Â
Mayor Pam Conine (D) is pushing for the enactment of a state constitutional amendment that would actualize the policy. Yellow Springs voters approved a referendum in 2019 allowing dozens of noncitizen residents of the village to participate in local and state elections, but the measure never went into effect.Â
Read the full storyCandidate for Cuyahoga County Executive Backs Noncitizen Voting
Chris Ronayne, the Democratic candidate for Cuyahoga County executive, said in a public forum this week that he would support Ohio’s municipalities allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections.
The former Cleveland city administrator and former president of University Circle, Inc., a community-development corporation, explained to attendees at the Global Cleveland panel discussion at Jukebox that he believed cities can use their home-rule powers to adopt that election policy.
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