Faithful Reader Calls B.S. On Ohio Legislature

A faithful reader vents his spleen about the weed legalization movement and calls B.S. on the Ohio legislature.  Indeed, his email to me arrived under the subject of:  Bullshit!  Good call, my friend.  Happy to share your thoughts on Buster's Blog.

Background in a nutshell:

Responsible Ohio is a group which advocates for legal marijuana in Ohio.  They just turned in almost 700,000 signed petitions from all over the state.  Their Constitutional amendment initiative will appear on the November ballot.  If passed, it will establish a taxed, for-profit system, with investors and about 1100 retail and medical outlets across Ohio.

Our gerrymandered, jury-rigged Republican-dominated state legislature is living in the past and still fighting Richard Nixon's War on Drugs.  They hate the idea of legal weed, so they've come up with their own Constitutional amendment to legally ban such a system, which Senate president Keith Faber calls a"monopoly." (Puh-leeze!)

Both amendments will appear on the November ballot.  You can vote for the marijuana legalization issue and vote for Faber's B.S. anti-monopoly issue.  If you do, here's the kicker:  Our state R's, in keeping with their most devious traditions, have inserted a clause into their amendment which will invalidate the weed issue if both should pass.

That's when my faithful reader friend blew up:
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This is one of those things where I feel compelled to write a letter to the Douchepatch or an FB post, but I dare not.

This Ohio legislature is so full of crap. If the representatives & senators cared so much protecting Ohio's constitution why didn't they pursue a legislative ballot issue after the casino initiative passed?  'Cause they didn't!  Only when Responsible Ohio presented a cannabis initiative did these so called forthright outstanding representatives of the people take the pen to hand primarily to block this attempt to legalize cannabis!  This is clearly an attempt to continue the criminalization of cannabis, and against the public's will!  If they're so interested in protecting the public from abusive substances they should unwrap their hands from their alcohol-filled glasses!  I'm convinced cannabis is no more dangerous, and maybe less so, than the real gateway drug, alcohol.

Ohio Senate President
and heinous ass-hat
Keith Faber (R-Celina)

When Keith Faber makes his run for Govenor, I will actively campaign against him!  Have said that for years, starting back when --  of all things -- he made the ODNR & OEPA come up with a way to allow condos be built at the dam at Grand Lake St. Marys!  Can you imagine?!

Phew, got that of off my chest, kind of.

Your pal, . . . 

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So the only reasonable solution is to vote for the marijuana ballot issue and against Faber's ridiculous alternative.  That will fix his wagon.