From Red Ohio & Want Pot?

[SoCalMusicLover]

TOO BAD!!!

Go to Mexico if you want that S&*T.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[hobbit709]

1. How classy-NOT!!!

[upaloopa]

2. I heard today that the pot measure was put

on the ballot by 10 growers who would be given sole right to grow pot. And that people voted against them.

[bvf]

3. Yes, there was a lot of contoversy

surrounding the wording of the measure.

Issue #2 didn't help matters, either, though I think that was the point of it.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I don't think it was that simple. The pro-legalization orgs pushing it thought the only way they

could spin up the financing for the initiative was to write the big 10 donors into the thing. Presumably (?) they thought no one would notice, or maybe that the whole idea of legalization would sell so strongly that no one would care about the fundamentally un-democratic notion of having the people who finance a piece of legislation directly benefit from the way the thing is written.

Either way, legalization is coming, I think, and Ohio should learn from other states that have defeated bad proposals and gone on to pass better ones. Write a better initiative and try again.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. It was a badly written initiative. As someone else noted, even Willie Nelson was against it.

If your pot legalization initiative can't even swing Willie's support, you need to write a better initiative.

[KamaAina]

6. Um, "Red" Ohio is the classic swing state.

Only Florida rivals it in importance.