News 5/Ideastream Public Media Forum on Issue 2 – Ohio's recreational marijuana ballot issue
News 5/Ideastream Public Media Forum on Issue 2 – Ohio's recreational marijuana ballot issue
News 5 Cleveland has teamed up with Ideastream Public Media to host a virtual public forum on Issue 2, Ohio’s upcoming ballot initiative that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana for adults 21 and over. We’re discussing the issue with experts and answering your questions.
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If this passes I guess it will give a different meaning to "High" Way driving.
GARY I HATE TO TELL YOU BUD BUT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IS 1,000,000.000 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO GET HIT BY A DRUNK DRIVER RATHER THEN SOMEONE HIGH ON MARIJUANA 🤣🤣🤣🤣 THIS DUDE IS A CHARACTER THE PARENTS CAN DO THE SAME THING WITH ALCOHOL
I got another comment. Bill calls it cynical… He is the cynical one in the debate. He doesn’t want to see anyone who used to smoke weed or is poor to have a business in the marijuana industry. What a prick. I bet it would make him jealous if someone who got busted with weed wrongfully some years ago ended up being a millionaire business owner in Ohio. This dude is just so narrow minded. He should be embarrassed for being such a jerk. Anyway let’s legalize cannabis in Ohio
Please show me this alleged weed that is over 35%……….this bill.guy saying there is 90% thc flower you are fuckin buggin……even 50% thc weed has to be some of the most rare flower u could EVER find……
Hey the keys this is why we have inc
When Jerry Springer was mayor of Cincinnati we smoked like chiefs the Republicans hated Jerry because he loved women and weed not little boy and alcohol.. until you run the Nazis out you don’t have a chance of legal weed big pharma runs your state 😮
Until Ohio starts voting blue, I don’t think Ohio is ready for legalized marijuana. Let the blue state profit off red states on the taxes and tourisum etc.
GARY A JUDGE IN MARION OHIO ALMOST KILLED HIS WIFE IVE YET TO SEE SOMEONE IN MY TOWN SAY A JAY OR SILENT BOB NEARLY KILLED A MAN AND LEFT HIM FOR DEAD THIS WAS A PUBLIC FIGURE DRINLKING AND DRIVING AND NEARLY KILLED A KID LEFT HIM TRAPPED IN HIS CAR AND IF SOMEONE CAN GROW AT HOME ITS STILL CONTROLLED YOU KNOW WHATS IN IT 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
300 Hundred Million Dollars in tax revenue being fed to Michigan. New York and lining the pockets of drug cartels..and no matter how you vote Marijuana is not going away..You only need to ask yourself two questions when voting ..will the passage be enough to make me start smoking it and will Marjuana go away ?..The answer of course is NO..Lawmakers have no problem reaching for our wallets every time they need money to balance their books raising our taxes yet still willing to give away millions of dollars to the Sates bordering Ohio..The first guy saying yes he can smell it in Michigan..Fact is the passage does not increase the numbers of users…So we must be smelling it now and don’t realize it..Thats doesn’t make any sense to me..Even then those who in the open and are caught smoking in public should be fined giving more revenue to the State.. it does NOT increase the number of users either way..The passage will not be enough to make me want to smoke Marijuana and even if i wanted to its all to easy to buy either one State away or one Street corner away..Keep this 300 hundred million dollars in the State of Ohio and stop feeding it to Michigan or New York or the drug dealer the next street over..The only argument the State has against it is who is allowed to make the profit..The business man wanting to open a business or the State having a foot hold on it and full control on who they want to be able to sell it..Until the State has that in hand they will not support the passage plain and simple as that.. Voting Yes
GARY MARIJUANA IS NOT CRACK PPL. AINT GOING TO RICK THERE FREEDOM FOR A LITTLE BIT OF POT TAKE A STEP BACK INTO REALITY HERE COMEEE ONNN 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
I live in Michigan and I am profoundly against this. I’m a medicinal and recreational cannabis user and I will face higher prices and lower availability of the medicine I need. Perhaps Ohio legislators are right, Ohio residents are simply not responsible. They need more time to mature as citizens before experiencing freedoms like this. Actually, you should consider harsh new penalties designed to reduce the number of younger users. Young people who’ve had their lives destroyed on conviction of a cannabis crime will dissuade young users.
The media needs to fact check the statements made by Tom Haren and give others the opportunity to rebuttal things he said in this event.
Yes is the vote 👍
Legalizing marijuana has not hurt any of the other states. It has created a new income stream for all the government.
Bill thinks Reefer Madness is a documentary
thats if they can find their keys ( most of the time the keys are in their hand.)
We have to connect cannabis with habitual offender statutes. When a teenager realizes they could spend the remainder of their natural lives in a penitentiary, they’ll think many times before using anything other than alcohol and certainly not cannabis.
Studies are like statistics it can be made to show anything depending on who pays for the studies
The people will show you the gov wants the tax money
Bill Snook has no idea what he’s talking about. He miss reads labels. He still believes in The voodoo of reefer madness. He has absolutely no proof on anything he says. He is useless.
The number one reason people don’t renew their medical license; They moved because the grass is greener elsewhere.
The worst thing about legalizing marijuana is that the illegal weed will still be cheaper and typically better quality than the legal counterparts.
This is classism at its finest. ONLY reason weed isn’t legal is they couldn’t put a stranglehold on supply. They DONT want you to be able to start a business and become rich/wealthy LEGITIMATELY. 🤦♂️ we need to vote this in. These folks don’t want “certain” people to have money and live in the nicer communities, show up at the events and have say so.
The anti-marijuana legalization crowd tries really hard to live in a place where if they don’t like something that isn’t as dangerous as guns, or alcohol, or some jobs even, that no one should be allowed to like it. Did you know people get cut by sharp objects? That means all sharp objects are extremely dangerous, should we illegalize all sharp objects? No, and sharp objects are more dangerous than marijuana.
How many on this panel have actually used this stuff. If none how can you be the experts? Why not talk to a real user?
What pot dealer stands on a street corner WTF some people are so out of touch with reality……. or blatant liars trying to push some personal agenda….
More dispensary shop , fix the roads, highways residential streets parks, especially the parks and make the school safe and better education for are future kids
ALL OF MY FRIENDS THAT I KNOW HAVE REGISTERED JUST TO VOTE AND WE WILL VOTE YES AND I DISAGREE WITH GARY THIS IS NOT GOING TO CAUSE MORE ACCIDENT DRINKING AND DRIVING IS ONE OF THE LEADING CAUSE OF MOTOR VEHICLE DEATH’S EVERY YEAR NOT EVERY OTHER YEAR EVERY YEAR CHEECH AND CHONG AINT KILLED NOONE WILLY NELSON’S STILL GOING STRONG MY GRANDMOTHER WHO WAS A FULL BLOODED CHEROKEE INDIAN SMOKED HER WHOLE LIFE IT WAS PART OF HER BELIEFS AND SHE LIVED UNTIL HER LATE 90’S AND SMOKED EVERYDAY SO EVERYTHING THESE GUYS ARE SAYING IS A BUNCHA NONSENSE VOTE YES AND STOP BIG PHARMA FROM CASHING IN ON OUR PPL. BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE THIS DONT WANT US TO HAVE ACCESS TO ANYTHING THAT THEY CANT CAPITALIZE ON SAD PART IS THERE STILL CAPITALIZING ON IT IT JUST AINT ENOUGH FOR THERE LIKING
And what about the kids getting mom and dads alcohol? Lol. Or pills?
bill schuck is a old head thats never smoked before get his old closedminded ass out he litrlly pulling bs out his ass
BILL ACTS LIKE WERE DOING SOMETHING FOR MENTAL HEATH PATIENTS ALL WERE DOING IS LOCKING THEM UP THE PRISONS ARE FULL OF THEM 😂😂😂😂
Like alcohol doesn’t harm anyone or your liver 😂
Ppl driving aRound stoned are not in control …they are intoxicated
It’s absurd this is being discussed much less on the ballot. This is a mind altering chemical that has no place in society. The only place this should be considered is in a medical environment directly under a doctors supervision and only if the medical industry as a whole recognizes benefits that improve the quality of life for an individual. Thousands of people are driving while consuming these products and I am tired of being exposed while driving, incredibly unfair to unsuspecting drivers. This is also Federally illegal, which as I understand trumps all state law and therefore illegal everywhere.
Ohio people are fucked up enough as it is they do not need this
Cannot believe Tom and michell try to profit on the people without concerning about the negative consequences it can cause. Just think about our younger generation.
Bill did not help his cause
Alcohol kills people.
The FOP of Ohio doesn’t want to legalize because it’s easy for cops to smell weed and give us tickets for it. They need to back off. Cannabis never should have been illegal to begin with. It should be legal for adults and as long as we use it responsibly there should be very few issues. Cannabis is alot safer than alcohol. Many of us know that… It’s old news. The business owners will just have to treat it like alcohol. Don’t allow it in the workplace. Do it if you want when your off work.. DUH.. That one guy on here who talked about giving " ex criminals" or people who broke the law with cannabis jobs and allowing them to sell in a regulated market… Well that should be fine. This guy has a stick up his butt about it. He just doesn’t like it so he’s going to be a jerk about it. It’s good for business good for taxes good for the roads and the cities in general which could even funnel resources to police stations. So we need to legalize cannabis in Ohio. We don’t want to be the last state to benefit… But apparently the cops and these stuck up business owners don’t want to be on the right side of history. Oh well. They will see very soon here shortly how cannabis can benefit the world.
What harms can pot do to people?
compare pot to alcohol. Its not even close.
Drunks run stop signs and lights. Potheads wait for the stop sign to turn green.
MY VOTE WILL BE YES REGARDLESS ALCHOHOL IS 100,000000X WOSE THEN MARIJUANA WILL EVER BE
These are stupid people.. equity,jobs,statistics,money,
smell,race, employment, blah blah blah
YEAH RIGHT DRUNK DRIVERS KILL MORE PPL EVERY YEAR THEN ANYONE 🤣🤣🤣🤣 TALK ABOUT THAT
A few years ago a top Indians state trooper claimed he would rather deal with a marijuana driver than a drunk driver. Obviously the experts are misinformed. They make more from fines court costs and related restrictions with counseling and testing along with probation costs. It’s helps with many illnesses that big pharma can’t be successful with the petroleum based drugs which actually cause more harm than natural medications. That’s why the Rockerfellers hijacked the medical industry
I rolled my 2000 Harley Wide Glide on 08-30-2008 on HWY 82 by Sealy lake Montana with no helmet that broke ribs multiple times puncturing both lungs, shattered pelvic into 5 pieces stopping my ❤ 3 times. Putting me into an 87 day coma waking with a 5.5 TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury).
THC protected my brain from oxygen deprivation. I was returned from ‘death’ on the CREATORS mission ~ MARIJUANA / CANNABIS is healing my brain through the Endocannabinoid system. GOD given ‘phytocannabinoids’. It is THC-a that gives the brain the ability to grow cells.