Coming Soon to Ohio – Legal Pot

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Published 2024-05-17

WOSU’s Mike Thompson and the Columbus on the Record panel preview the start of Ohio’s legal recreational marijuana sales, a power struggle is causing turmoil within the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System (STRS), six months to the November election and Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance is seeking to be Donald Trump’s Vice President running mate, Intel factories as well data centers for Amazon, Google and Microsoft in Central Ohio could double the demand for electricity in the region.

This week’s panelists:
Julie Carr Smyth, reporter for The Associated Press
Terry Casey, Republican strategist
Joseph Mas, Ohio Hispanic Coalition

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Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
00:18 – Legal Marijuana Coming To Ohio
07:30 – Teacher Pension Power Play
14:18 – Campaign 2024
21:22 – Data Centers Fuel Electricity Demand
24:24 – Off The Record Comments

All Comments (17)

@thatguyitsme7707 14 days ago

Saying no to the revenue is fiscally stupid.
@user-gq2ep3sp9k 21 days ago

You better open them up your losing money every day to Michigan
@hammyhamhamster5993 14 days ago

Cannabis should be absolutely just as legal and easy to obtain anywhere as alcohol currently is. In every single state. No exceptions. It's so easy: As legal and easy to obtain/use as alcohol currently is. Why hold relatively benign, often healing cannabis to any sort of irrational, stricter double standard than perfectly legal alcohol?
@Steve-dl6vm 21 days ago

Grow your own. Prices are a rip off in Ohio.
@hotfudgecake 21 days ago

these old dudes smh
@doknox 14 days ago

The few medical dispos ohio does have are gonna be swamped when they start selling rec too. I will not be waiting in that line.
@jayrsoundz5411 28 days ago

Retired k9s lmao 🤣 😂 😆
@bltvd 28 days ago

If you think high potency cannabis is a bad thing you have no business even being in a discussion on the matter.
@zombiazooma6768 3 days ago

Where Indiana lol
@KCUnger 14 days ago

How did the beautiful state of ohio get screwed again? The only place in the world to sell 10ths instead of the worlds standard 8ths of an oz and then tax the hell out of nothing? Legal but can’t buy it for months unless you buy a scamopoly medical card first? Whack!
@OccultVolcano 21 days ago

Magic wafts of pot crossing state lines
@anthony9313 28 days ago

Curaleaf Ohio is ready.
@rock815town 28 days ago

It will arrive in September
@FlipCouvillion 28 days ago

O-High-O👍
@marpsr 21 days ago

Grove City is in central Ohio.
@VintageVaughnVehiclces 28 days ago

And the lawyer gets two telephone calls the next morning after weed is legal. This car bumped into my car he was doing 15 miles an hour because he has been smoking weed. And then the next phone call this car was doing 95 miles an hour and plowed into the car and took the whole front end off, and he was found to be totally drunk. What would you rather have hit you a stone driver driving really really slow or drunk mad man with liquid courage how fast can this thing go mindset. Doesn't take far to look back in the 1950s and all the drunk drivers and how fast they drove and that's why the cars had to be so large and heavy was to save your life in an accident from drunk drivers. Today's cars are so flimsy you need stoned drivers who will just barely scratch the plastic bumper cover and even that's going to cost $2,000 to have repainted.