With just over a week until Ohio’s voter-approved marijuana legalization law takes effect, a Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow individual municipalities to locally ban the use and home cultivation of cannabis in their jurisdictions. The legislation would also revise how state marijuana tax revenue would be distributed by, for example, reducing funds allocated to social equity and jobs programs and instead steering them toward law enforcement training.
The measure from Rep. Gary Click (R), filed on Tuesday, appears to be separate from a forthcoming proposal that GOP leadership and the governor have been discussing to similarly amend the cannabis law that passed at the ballot this month.
While the voter-approved Issue 2 explicitly prohibited localities from barring marijuana use, home cultivation or scientific research from their jurisdictions—or imposing additional local taxes on cannabis products—Click’s bill would strike those key provisions, creating the potential for a patchwork of policies across the state.
Issue 2 already permits municipalities to opt out of allowing new recreational cannabis companies from opening in their area, though they can’t block existing medical marijuana firms even if they want to add co-located adult-use operations.
Additionally, Click’s measure would change how the state would
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