A sign against Issue 2 sits near a polling place on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Cincinnati. The ballot issue would legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio and allow adults 21 and over to possess up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis and to grow plants at home. Ohio would become the...
In 2023, Ohioans voted to approve ballot issue 2, legalizing recreational marijuana in the state. As a result, Ohio will become the 24th state with such a designation. This change will take effect in late 2024, though many dispensaries are planning now for what this change will mean for ...
Ohio voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a state constitutional amendment, Issue 2, to ban noncitizens from voting. It was one of many ballot initiatives dealing with election integrity in this year’s elections. The Columbus Dispatch reported that Issue 2 had passed with 77.1% support from ...
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September 29, 2023 Ohio Star Staff Amid the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has developed its own AI tool in the same vein as ChatGPT, in an effort to combat the Chinese military’s AI advances. As Just The News reports, the CIA plans to ...
This fall’s Issue 2 will be a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana, whose ballot language cleared the committee Thursday without discussion. Gonidakis, a key champion of the August amendment to raise the threshold for constitutional changes to 60%, said educating voters on the transposition...
Nov. 8, 2023, 2:03 AM UTC Tuesday’s “Yes” vote on Ohio’s Issue 1adds another tick in the “W” column for abortion rights, as anti-abortion forces have now lost every single time the people have been directly asked whether the government should be able to force us to stay pregn...
Ohio’s constitutional amendment, on the ballot as Issue 1, included some of the most protective language for abortion access of any statewide ballot initiative since the Supreme Court’s ruling.Opponentshad argued that the amendment would threatenparental rights,allow unrestricted gender surgeries for...
Here’s how Issue 1 will appear on the Nov. 7 ballot: Recreational marijuana in Ohio: Know before you vote Arguments for and against Issue 1 Voting “yes” on Issue 1 is a vote to add an amendment establishing new protections for reproductive choices to the Ohio Constitution. ...
Notably, the ballot language distorts the meaning of the amendment. The full amendment text can be foundhere, and the ballot language can be foundhere. OPEN’s Instagram explainer of Issue 1 can be foundhere. The ballot language states that the proposition would include "an individual right ...