Weeds Not Welcome in Ohio
Recreational weed won't be on the 2019 ballot, ex-fiance discovered in a dumpster, and more.
Here it is, the latest sign we’re in the Biblical End of Times…
Farmers’ status: Still screwed.
HATING ON HEMP
The federal government legalized hemp and reclassified it as an agricultural product. Ohio, however, has continued its long tradition of delaying anything cool happening in the state. We still consider hemp to be the Devil’s Lettuce.
From Jackie Borchardt of cincinnati.com:
COLUMBUS – Ohio hemp advocates and farmers warned lawmakers Tuesday against adding too many restrictions on the state's proposed legal hemp program.
Supporters of industrial hemp said changes to Senate Bill 57 will prohibit many Ohioans from planting hemp, a non-intoxicating cousin of marijuana, or making products from the plant. Hemp is a cannabis plant with less than 0.3 percent THC, the active component of cannabis that generates a high.
The 2018 Farm Act made hemp an agricultural commodity and allowed states to regulate it. But on the state level, hemp remains illegal.
Ohio law makes no differentiation between hemp and marijuana, and the Ohio Board of Pharmacy has maintained CBD, or cannabidiol, derived from hemp can only be produced and sold through Ohio's medical marijuana program.
Senate Bill 57 aims to fix that by removing hemp from the definition of marijuana and establishing some rules required by the federal law.
I have a friend, who may be reading this article right now, who is currently in Oregon working on a 1,200-acre hemp farm (check out their site at . Their operation will gross millions of dollars this year.
Meanwhile, back in the Buckeye State, we’re losing out on that kind of money. Our decimated farmers are still behind their brethren in other states.
NO LEGAL WEED INITIATIVE ON 2019 OR 2020 BALLOT
Former governor John Kasich and the State Legislature legalized medical marijuana to prevent state residents from legalizing recreational marijuana through an initiative at the ballot box.
None of the legislative leaders actually believed in medical marijuana, which is why they did all they could to slow-roll the program and make it inaccessible and expensive as possible.
No relief will be coming at the ballot box later this year.
From Jackie Borchardt of cincinnati.com:
COLUMBUS – Ohioans will not vote in 2019 whether to broadly legalize marijuana in the Buckeye State, despite several recent reports to the contrary.
Yes, there was a proposed constitutional amendment in the works last year, but that effort largely fizzled last fall.
Ohio Families for Change, the group backing the Marijuana Rights and Regulations amendment, deactivated its Facebook page and website long ago. It closed out its campaign finance account with the state on April 18.
“Ohio Families for Change, which is a former client of mine, has no plans on advancing their ballot language in either 2019 or 2020,” former campaign spokesman Jonathan Varner told The Enquirer.
Not being able to grow hemp or recreational marijuana must be some of that “economic freedom” about which our government loves to boast when lowering taxes on millionaires and billionaires.
COULD YOU SURVIVE ON THE DIET OF A SYRIAN REFUGEE?
Refugees are some of the bravest people in the world, and racist Americans love to shit on them as if they could live one day in their shoes.
A Columbus-based group is challenging Americans to subsist on the diet of a Syrian refugee because that’s the only way to spur our country into action these days.
From Danae King of dispatch.com:
The Ration Challenge started this week and involves volunteers in central Ohio and across the country eating only the rations that are provided to displaced Syrians in refugee camps in Jordan for a week to raise money and awareness. The event is hosted by Church World Service, a faith-based organization headquartered in New York City that helps to resettle refugees in the United States among other things.
Participants were sent a box of rations, including sardines, chick peas, rice, lentils, kidney beans and vegetable oil.
Cullen is one of 14,000 people in the U.S. who signed up to do the challenge, which takes place this week ahead of World Refugee Day on Thursday.
“My main motivation is for the families and the kids there,” Cullen said, of her decision to register for the challenge.
The challenge so far has raised $250,000 for rations and medicine for Syrian refugees.
BOX OF DELICIOUS NILLA WAFERS USED DURING ASSAULT IN YOUNGSTOWN
Youngstown is a wild place where some see a delicious box of Nilla wafers and others see an assault weapon.
From vindy.com:
A Bonnie Brae Avenue woman told police late Monday her ex-boyfriend kicked in her door, hit her over the head with a box of Nilla Wafers and stole her phone.
Police were called the home about 11:30 p.m., where reports said the woman told police she was asleep before she was awakened by a loud noise, which was her door being kicked in.
Officers searched but could not find the suspect.
I’m baffled at how a box of Nilla wafers came into play here. Because I have never seen someone get angry while eating a box of Nilla wafers.
EX-FIANCE DUMPED FOR SECOND TIME IN AS MANY WEEKS
A Montgomery County fiancé got dumped and somehow that wasn’t the worst thing to happen to him that week as he claims 12 people threw him in a dumpster and tried to set him on fire.
From 13abc.com:
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ohio (WHIO/CNN) – Kacie Boring broke off her engagement with Damien Pollock two weeks ago.
She said the couple called it quits over "a personal reason," but she still wears her ring.
"We were planning on starting a family, getting a house," she said. "We planned our whole life together."
She was clearly shaken Wednesday when she spoke about what police said Pollock told them about how he ended up in a pile of trash at a solid waste transfer facility in Moraine, Ohio, on Tuesday morning.
"He didn't deserve this," Boring said.
My girlfriend/fiancée of seven years recently left my trash ass, and that shit sucks. At least I can find solace in that I didn’t almost die in a dumpster a week later.
Not sure my humble newsletter could have recovered from that. People only want to read morning ramblings from somebody with a dumpster aesthetic, not a literal garbage man.
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