Last night the results came back and Ohio didn’t pass the legalization of marijuana. Here’s some thoughts, since it was a hot button issue.
1. Maybe if you want weed legalized, make the ballot less confusing. The basic beef was that a giant pot conglomerate was going to control the entire production. Amazingly, this side issue was separate and pretty close – Ohio barely passed anti-monopoly laws. No one really understood the bills until about Monday this week if at all; perhaps stoners thought it would ban board games. Either way, most pot smokers hate big corporations – that part was done on purpose.
2. I guarantee your pot dealer voted against it.
3. I shudder to think how many potheads went to vote at 4:20.
4. My grandma used to call every drug “the dope.” Whomever wore a pot t-shirt to vote probably got every old person at the polling station scared of “the dope.” Be happy skateboards weren’t on the ballot, those would have been banned too.
5. Nick Lachey being the face of the pro-legalization team would have worked much better in 2003. Actually probably not. Forget I said that, because 14 year old girls can’t vote.
6. Either way the vote would have turned out, your apartment hallway was going to smell like weed last night.
For everyone happy, keep in mind it will be back on the ballot within six years. For everyone upset, remember it’s been illegal your entire life and that hasn’t stopped you. Now if they try to raise the beer tax any time soon, I’m going to turn into Patrick Henry or Sam Adams. Probably Sam Adams, he has a beer named after him.