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The senate just passed their version of the bill
In a stunning reversal, Ohio’s GOP-controlled Senate passed a revised bill that in many ways would expand the voter-approved marijuana legalization law that goes into effect on Thursday—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, among other changes.
The amended bill, as compared to the prior draft, restores the cap on marijuana retailers to 350, slightly increases the THC limit on cannabis extracts (though not to the level approved by voters) while restoring the original THC cap on flower, maintains a ban on sharing home cultivated marijuana among adults and makes revisions to the tax rate and revenue allocation, in part to support the facilitation of automatic expungements of convictions involving possession of up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana.
The marijuana excise tax would be set at 15 percent (up from 10 percent under the initiated statute), and local governments could levy an additional tax of up to three percent. The proposed 15 percent cultivator tax that was originally in the amendment package was removed.
The legislation calls for $15 million in marijuana tax revenue to go toward expungements. The remaining revenue would go to a Department of Public Safety law enforcement training (16 percent), an attorney general’s office law enforcement training fund (14 percent), drug law enforcement fund (five percent), poison control fund (two percent), substance misuse treatment (nine percent), suicide hotline services (nine percent), jail construction and renovation (28 percent), safe driver training (five percent) and more.
Ohio Senate Approves Bill To Allow Marijuana Sales From Dispensaries 'Immediately', Keep Home Grow And Expunge Records - Marijuana Moment
In a stunning reversal, Ohio’s GOP-controlled Senate passed a revised bill that in many ways would expand the voter-approved marijuana legalization law that goes into effect on Thursday—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, among other changes.
The amended bill, as compared to the prior draft, restores the cap on marijuana retailers to 350, slightly increases the THC limit on cannabis extracts (though not to the level approved by voters) while restoring the original THC cap on flower, maintains a ban on sharing home cultivated marijuana among adults and makes revisions to the tax rate and revenue allocation, in part to support the facilitation of automatic expungements of convictions involving possession of up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana.
The marijuana excise tax would be set at 15 percent (up from 10 percent under the initiated statute), and local governments could levy an additional tax of up to three percent. The proposed 15 percent cultivator tax that was originally in the amendment package was removed.
The legislation calls for $15 million in marijuana tax revenue to go toward expungements. The remaining revenue would go to a Department of Public Safety law enforcement training (16 percent), an attorney general’s office law enforcement training fund (14 percent), drug law enforcement fund (five percent), poison control fund (two percent), substance misuse treatment (nine percent), suicide hotline services (nine percent), jail construction and renovation (28 percent), safe driver training (five percent) and more.
Ohio Senate Approves Bill To Allow Marijuana Sales From Dispensaries 'Immediately', Keep Home Grow And Expunge Records - Marijuana Moment
