CLEVELAND.COM: With little fanfare, Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday signed a law creating a strictly regulated medical marijuana program.
The new law goes into effect 90 days after the bill is officially filed with the secretary of state, making the marijuana legal sometime in early September.
At that time, patients will have an “affirmative defense” against prosecution for marijuana possession charges if they have written permission from their doctor to use marijuana in a form allowed under the law. It could be a year or more until Ohioans can walk into a dispensary and buy medical marijuana… (more)
NEWSLANC EDITOR: According to the Drub Policy Alliance, fifty-percent of the states now have some form of medical marijuana law. We have come a long way.
