Ohio Senate Republicans propose banning home grown marijuana and other changes to legal marijuana
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Banning marijuana growing at home, increasing the substance’s tax rate and altering how those taxes get distributed are among vast changes Ohio Senate Republicans proposed Monday to a marijuana legalization measure approved by voters last month.
The changes emerged suddenly in committee just days before the new law is set to take effect, though their fate in the full Senate and the GOP-led House is still unclear.
The ballot measure, dubbed Issue 2, passed on the Nov. 7 election with 57 percent of the vote and it set to become law this Thursday, making Ohio the 24th state to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. But as a citizen-initiated statute, the Legislature is free to make tweaks on it, of which they’re attempting plenty.
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Gaah. Not allowing grow is the biggest bs in the illinois "legalization"
How can they enforce ot?
In Illinois, you can grow up to five plants for personal use if you have a medical card. However, medical cards in Illinois are only provided to people who suffer from a condition on a fairly limited list. Definitely not as easy to get a medical card here as it is in, say, California.
If you don't have a medical card, and you're caught with up to five plants, it's a "violation" (citation), with a maximum fine of $200 and no jail time. Over five plants is a felony, with increasingly higher jail and fines. Read between the lines here, and they're not going to be looking for people with up to five plants for personal use at all.
These penalties exist in order to prevent trafficking, which I think is a good thing. Legal weed in Illinois is not terribly expensive, and you can have confidence in the quality, that it's not adulterated, and that the money you spend on it isn't filtering down to criminal organizations.
why limit the 5 to medical cards which also require a yearly fee. My wife has a bunch of issues and could likely get a card but we don't know if marijuana would help but we would love to try to see if it would allow for less use of opoids and nausea medicine. Its not covered by insurance though and we already pay max out of pocket each year so the paywall is just to much.
Well, if you want to try, just go buy some. If your wife has an opioid prescription, you can get a medical card, but to my understanding, it just makes the price of the products lower, and lets you buy a larger quantity. There may be some products which are only available to medical card holders, but if there are, there aren't many.
Like I said, even without a medical card, up to five plants is a $200 fine. With the electricity and effort and equipment, it's probably going to cost you less for better quality if you just buy from a shop and let the professionals do the growing (unless you're one of those professionals, of course).
so I don't think you understand. We spend a lot on medical already and marijuana without a card is very expensive and we just don't break the law because we think we can. If the law just allowed grow then we would likely try it. Just fyi the amount of doctors who other folks who have no concept of our single income barely making it world who say, hey just buy this thing out of pocket. Drives me nuts. I understand that you don't necessarily understand my situation but we actually do in some case spend some additional out of pocket but it is very economically challenging for us. Case in point is insurance will not cover prp which we have found works but will cover another surgery. So its like a game of chicken. The surgery would cost the insurance waaaaayyy more than prp but its also does not always end well as we well know. Another case was they use to pay for this post surgery machine that automatically runs cold/hot cycles and preassure which is clinically proven to improve outcomes and they used to cover it. Know why they don't now. Medicare stopped and most insurances use medicare billing codes. So they stopped. Anwyay we do not have unlimited resources to pay for unlimited amounts of out of pocket with medical costs.