Ohio is poised to become the cannabis industry’s next big thing if voters there, as expected, approve an adult-use marijuana legalization measure on Tuesday.
Legal cannabis in Ohio – with nearly 12 million people, it’s the country’s seventh-most-populous state – would provide a boost to existing medical marijuana businesses, which would be positioned to serve an adult-use market worth as much as $4 billion within a few years, according to MJBizDaily projections.
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It would also be another milestone for the U.S. reform movement that would likely put even more pressure on Congress to legalize marijuana – or at least change the nation’s MJ laws.
But while polling shows a solid majority of Ohioans support legalization measure Issue 2, Election Day is less than half the battle.
State lawmakers in the Republican-dominated General Assembly are already vowing to make changes. And they have the authority to alter or
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