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The effort to repeal Ohio’s intoxicating hemp ban is underway as the clock ticks
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Next month, Ohio will ban all intoxicating hemp, including hemp-infused THC and CBD beverages, if Senate Bill 56 goes into effect as scheduled. Some… Read More
Ohio’s attorney general alleges anticompetitive practices in a lawsuit against big cannabis operators
By: WOUB News Team
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Ohio’s attorney general has filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing nine multistate cannabis operators of anticompetitive practices that disadvantage smaller operators. The lawsuit stems from a tip… Read More
Ohio communities finally receive their pot of cannabis tax funds
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Ohio municipalities are receiving their promised tax revenue from recreational cannabis sales, more than a year after dispensaries opened their doors across the state. More… Read More
An effort to repeal Ohio’s marijuana law changes and ban on intoxicating hemp has been rejected by AG Dave Yost
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A proposal to repeal a law that seeks to tweak the state’s recreational marijuana statute and ban intoxicating hemp has hit a roadblock. That… Read More
2025 Year in Review: Ohio lawmakers made major changes to marijuana and hemp regulations
By: Sarah Donaldson
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — This year, as Ohio’s still-young recreational marijuana industry bloomed, the Ohio House and Senate negotiated and finalized its omnibus bill changing state cannabis statute…. Read More
A new law in Ohio will move hemp products into dispensaries without an exception for THC beverages
By: Amanda Pirani
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB/Report for America) — A bill signed by Gov. Mike DeWine Friday will make big changes to Ohio’s hemp-derived THC industry. The new law calls for intoxicating hemp… Read More
‘Intoxicating’ hemp and THC beverages will be illegal soon under an Ohio bill signed by DeWine
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — All “intoxicating” hemp, including hemp-derived THC and CBD beverages, will be illegal to sell or have in 90 days, according to legislation Gov. Mike… Read More
Cannabis law changes and a toxic hemp beverage ban are now with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — After two years of fits and starts, extensive legislation changing recreational cannabis laws and banning so-called intoxicating hemp, including hemp-derived beverages, will head to… Read More
Ohio lawmakers advanced an overnight deal on cannabis and a hemp law overhaul
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A six-member committee of state lawmakers met late Wednesday into early Thursday to recommend a slew of changes to cannabis statute as well as… Read More
Business owners, stakeholders weigh potential hemp regulations in Ohio
By: Amanda Pirani
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB/Report for America) — It’s been a hectic month for Josh Crosier. He’s the co-owner of Appalachian Girls, a small hemp business based in Nelsonville. Earlier this month,… Read More
The Ohio House passes a plan to overhaul cannabis and delta-8 laws. Senators have issues with it
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio House lawmakers, by an 87-8 vote, advanced long-stalled legislation Wednesday afternoon revising cannabis laws and more strictly regulating other THC products, like those… Read More
What do Ohio lawmakers need and want to get done this fall?
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Summer recess is in the rearview mirror, and the Ohio General Assembly faces a busy schedule this fall. Redistricting looms large Ohio was already due… Read More
Some unregulated CBD, THC businesses also sell kratom and more in Ohio
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Some of the largest businesses that sell unregulated cannabis-derived products in Ohio are putting other highly synthetic products, including kratom, on the shelves at… Read More
An overhaul of Ohio’s cannabis laws stalled again to hemp retailers’ relief
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Another busy season for the Ohio General Assembly came and went without any success modifying cannabis laws. Early on in June, Republican lawmakers said… Read More
Ohio lawmakers are poised to pass long-stalled changes to the voter-approved cannabis law
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Three Ohio House lawmakers said Wednesday the chamber is close to consensus on changes to cannabis law, which are poised to pass before the legislature… Read More
Ohio cannabis advocates say state lawmakers aren’t listening to them
By: Sarah Donaldson | Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio lawmakers are forging ahead, trying again to modify the state’s recreational cannabis laws, which were enacted via the ballot box in November 2023. Legalization… Read More
A key House Republican suggests tax hikes on cigarettes, weed and gambling won’t make the Ohio budget
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine’s proposed tax increases on cigarettes, gambling operators and marijuana appear likely to be cut from the Ohio budget by members of… Read More
The Ohio House rolled out its own weed bill, with fewer changes than the Senate’s version
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An Ohio House GOP lawmaker has introduced his own set of changes to weed law, just a week after the Senate sent over an… Read More
The Ohio Senate again passed a bill making big changes to the state’s cannabis program
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Senate passed a GOP-led proposal by a 21-9 vote Wednesday to overhaul the state’s relatively young recreational cannabis program, and senators voted… Read More
Recreational marijuana sales remain high six months after legalization
By: Kendall Crawford I Statehouse News Bureau
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — In November of 2023, Ohio became the 24th state to vote to legalize adult-use cannabis. In August of 2024, dispensaries across the state began recreational… Read More
Ohio’s Senate looks to fast track a rollback of recreational cannabis laws
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Senate has resurrected a proposal that overhauls the state’s relatively young recreational cannabis program, in part by raising the excise tax on… Read More
2024 Year in Review: Ohio marks one year of legal adult-use cannabis
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Though Ohioans could possess, grow and smoke recreational cannabis at this time last year, they couldn’t buy it. One year later, dual-licensed Ohio dispensaries… Read More
Big changes to Ohio’s recreational cannabis laws are on deck for state lawmakers next year
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio legalized recreational cannabis via the voters through an initiated statute more than a year ago, with four months of sales under state retailer’s belts…. Read More
Growers and processors have been selected through a lottery for Kentucky’s start-up medical cannabis program
By: Bruce Schreiner | AP
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FRANKFURT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s start-up medical cannabis program should be positioned to ramp up quickly, but having products available for some patients at the outset will be a challenge,… Read More
Ohio regulators say marijuana sellers can’t give out food from an ice cream truck – even if it’s cannabis-free
By: Associated Press
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Handing out food and drinks from an ice cream truck is off limits for marijuana businesses in Ohio, according to state regulators. So is an online… Read More