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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
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
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
Biden to pardon simple federal marijuana possession convictions
By: Ximena Bustillo | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — President Biden on Thursday announced that he is taking executive action to pardon people convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law and D.C. statute. The… Read More
The next move in the effort to legalize marijuana in Ohio
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine and Republican legislative leaders have said they do not want to pass any of the bills that would legalize marijuana in… Read More