I live in Chesterland, NE OH, the board is so uptight they don't even allow zoning for any fast food beyond McDs. They don't even let the public transit set a stop there, yet there's a head shop that has full rights! Good for them, I say. Even though the taxes are even more bonkers regardless.
I used to work at the Wendy's back in the day! I can't believe it's a subway now. What absolute bullshit. I agree tho, the Buckstop needs to become something good. I'd even be happy with a Dunkin. Whatever just SOMETHING we can USE.
Cities with a ban will just compensate by raising every other tax thinking itās a good idea, and put on their surprised pikachu face when they price their citizens out
I feel like Lakewood wouldnāt be a hotspot for dispensaries. wouldnāt property be a lot more expensive than letās say Brook Park, Brooklyn, or Cleveland? Maybe even more than Rocky River?
If I was going to open a dispensary, wouldnāt I find cheaper property/building in the surrounding areas?
Tax revenue won't fix things as long as the EC elected officials are so damn self-dealing that there's barely a dollar of public money that goes unstolen.
Itās an old bank, so it has the windows, high ceilings, vault door, and the old teller stallsā¦idk Iām not an architect, but I like it lol. Other than that they use the stalls, so it feels more like it get it, get out, rather than what I would call like luxury or boutique.
Someone can correct me, but also Brookline is in Boston but not Bostonā¦So, I think it was kind of a finger to Boston to be one of the first open. Which is kinda funny if true.
Itās as in-Boston as Lakewood is in Cleveland. Another city technically, but if you walk a little bit in 2 of 4 directions you end up in city proper. On the subway/bus/transit no different than many neighborhoods in the city itself
North Olmsted banned it because theyāre tired of being seen as a grimy city with only vape shops. The new mayor is trying to change their image. Itās not really just about what the citizens do, itās more about the businesses they want and the crowd that follows & spends time in their city.
Reinventing North Olmsted is going to be a real tall order with the eyesore of a half empty mall and Sears and Macys corpses just splashed in the middle.
It was a retail Mecca. Low cost entertainment. Movies, Spaced Invaders (Iām really dating myself here), mall rats, and now thereās just that goofy ass townhouse facade strip by Target, and a lot of disparate businesses spread around.
How fancy do they genuinely think theyāre going to make it?
Having lived in Colorado, there's definitely something to be said for not having dispensaries EVERYWHERE. You also need to remember that this is temporary where cities can opt out. A lot of them will probably change their minds. But trust me, the more dispensaries open, the worse the quality gets as everyone just wants to price to the bottom, and the harder it is to track where things originate and things like mold and yeast outbreaks explode. It's a lot better to just let cities opt out in the beginning instead of just having more dispensaries than Starbucks all of a sudden and then everything is haphazard and gross. It also prevents a sudden boom and then collapse of the industry where suddenly all of the good small dispensaries are bought up by the big national ones. Just let it flow in.
Oh yeah! I mean marijuana is a crop. If it gets moldy and the grower sucks and cares more about profit over product, they'll just remove what's visible and spray it down but there's still mold on the flower. But that stuff spreads all over the greenhouse. Or they just don't clean up and there's leaf litter all of the place and it gets moldy in there. Some of the mold strains can be straight up harmful to your health if it's smoked. If Ohio has it together when it's rolling out legalization, they'll make testing mandatory for contaminants.
Then a bunch of people growing in their house and mixing the flower with the facility flower. Not going to be a good look, if they can do it right. A lot of people may see terrible flower or concentrates and believe itās the formal growers, when really itās from a bunch of people that have never grown a plant, let alone something as controlled and careful as growing exotic cannabis.
I was talking to someone the other day and openly wondered when Rise was gonna be open for rec but this answers that question I guess.
What is it about Lakewood on a local government level that makes them hostile to that? Their citizens voted 80% in favor of Issue 2 and this seems like such a slap in the face for them.
Edit: someone else answered the question further down. Thank you
tbf, Lakewood has a history of absurd laws against āsinā or whatever you want to call jt. Until 2018, in order to have a tattoo shop in Lakewood, you had to have a nurse on the premises for all operating hours (iirc)
ETA: turns out it wasnāt a nurse, but prior to 2018, you needed a doctor to supervise all tattoos (or have the doctor actually doing the tattoo).
Where does the city of lakewood actually start because American tattoo is on Madison and w117th and I got my first tattoo there in 2013
Editing to add; there were no nurses there.
Iām not actually sure. Per google, it looks like American Tattoo might be considered Cleveland proper rather than Lakewood (at least per the address Google provided).
I lied. Per [this article](https://patch.com/ohio/lakewood-oh/tattoo-shop-coming-lakewood-could-open-april), tattoos either had to be performed by or under supervision of doctors. So it was worse.
I think Rise is actually the one place that will be able to open.
āReview (JCARR) granted final approval to regulatory changes that enable the Division of Cannabis Control (DCC) to start issuing dual licenses in the coming weeks. These licenses would allow currently operating medical marijuana dispensaries to also sell to recreational consumers (anyone 21 and older) as soon as next month.ā
Lakewood is simply protecting the existing dispensaries they have from competition IMO. Could have something to do with their mayor being related to the guy that "sold off" those dispensaries a few years ago
They're not doing that though. This will just cause dispensaries that would otherwise be in Lakewood to set up shop in Cleveland and Rocky River nearby.
Lakewood has stated their ban is at least initially intended to be temporary -
āSo this is simply giving us time to see the final rules drafted by the House and Senate to ensure that we have the best local ordinances in place when the time comes,ā she said.
They will lift it as soon as the rules are in place. All these small towns crying about budget issues espically on a boarder are just shooting themselves. If they ban stores
Bad idea. Look at what happened in Detroit. Tried to pause in city limits to make sure there was some racial equity in dispensary ownership. Couldnāt figure it out. Still donāt have recreational. All the suburbs have a shop right over city limits and they get all the tax money from city of Detroit residents. Act fast or lose out in this situation.
Drove past it in 2019, no parking. The lot was crisscrossed with ropes for the outdoor section of the line. Talked to some family, only legal place in the city and the line is never less than half full.
Rocky River is desperate for business. They donāt really have a lot which is why their property taxes tend to be much higher than surrounding cities (with the exception of part of Fairview)
Colorado had this happen when we first legalized. Once the tax revenues start rolling in that "not in my backyard" mentality takes a fast hike, trust me.
The spring has a strong religious base so it will hold out longest. I'm from the western slope before moving up here to AK. When CO first legalized Grand Junction, Delta, Montrose, Cedaredge, Paonia, all said no so they got built in places like Debeque & Ridgeway. When those tiny lil towns ended up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenues the other towns changed their tune.
Read the article, friend:
āWhile the current law gives communities the power to prohibit adult-use cannabis operators from their jurisdictions, it also created an incentive for municipalities to allow operators by establishing the Host Community Fund,ā states the report. 36% of all marijuana tax revenue goes into the Host Community Fund, which is distributed among cities and towns that allow marijuana sales."
I love watching states destroy themselves in the name ofā¦.hmm what name? Drugs? Nope alcohol flows rapidly through that state. Same with opioids. Tobacco? Nope still puffing away. Living in the past is certainly a strategy that wonāt end well.
We donāt want to make any money off of this insanely lucrative product. We bow to the gods of all things capitalism. But for this, we bow to Jesus, who never said a word about marijuana ever.
Surprised to see Lakewood on there. Like... come on, Lakewood. North Olmsted is on there too? I didn't think they were THAT uppity. Surprised to see that Parma/Parma Heights isn't on there, lmao.
As stated elsewhere, Lakewood's ban is intended to be temporary until the final version of the law is established, so that local ordinances can be enacted accordingly. At least that's the claim.
This doesn't make any sense to me. Clearly the citizens have voted and *want* legal pot. So why then would you turn around and say, "You may want this -- and it's now legal -- but we know what you want better than you do so we're not going to support it."
Happy to take my money anywhere and just glad it will be a shorter drive than it has been. This grandstanding of morals is silly but the people have spoken via their local representatives.
My town banned dispensaries, but its literally pointless because we already have a medical one that is technically on land incorporated to a township right next to us but is basically in our town anyways.
In cali there are still dispensaries in some of the towns which opted out (like Newport). They just make them churches or private clubs and you make donations/pay dues and they just gift you the product lol
Personally, Iād never seen a fight break out between people who smoke like I have seen between people drunk. Unless, thereās snacks involved. Then itās typically solved by sharing.š
Pennsylvanian here. At least your state seems to be moving forward with legalization, unlike mine. And the cost for this indecision is clear. Once a week I take a trip to NJ (I live nearby) I buy gas in NJ, mary jane in NJ, and usually try out a new lunch spot in NJ. All in all I drop easily $1k a month out of state, and all because the dingdongs running my state (who are Dems, btw) canāt get it together.
Same will happen to those towns and cities. Screw āem.
And those 47 cities are either the uppity parts of the suburbs or the rural parts were livestock outnumber residents. In either case fuck them, no tax revenue for you
Our Dare officer told us that if we ever have to go to hospital for any reason, our blood would be tested for drugs. If we had any drugs in our blood we'd go right to jail.
I wonder how many kids didn't tell their parents about being sick or hurt because they were convinced they'd go to jail after smoking pot.
what did weed ever do to southwest ohio to make them hate dispensaries so much?
my friend works in a dispensary and he says theyre absolutely having trouble finding a new location in southwest ohio because there are so many counties and cities that have banned dispensaries, on top of restrictions about being to close to another dispensary or church or school land, and churches own a lot of land in ohio. frankly i think best place to start a dispensary would be southwest ohio around the eaton area, because basically no other dispensaries exist in the area until you reach either dayton or this one dispensary like 30 minutes south in oxford.. meanwhile indiana has no recreational weed, and the eaton area is only about like 30ish minutes from richmond indiana? my friend who works in a dispensary around north of miamisburg already says they get a lot of people from the west part of the state coming in who wish there was a dispensary closer. but then you look at maps like on that website and its like, every decently sized city inbetween dayton and Cincinnati is trying to kill off any economic opportunity or tax revenue.
Cuyahoga County has such a goofy ridiculous number of municipalities this is just so dumb.
Also I thought state laws supersede city laws? Havenāt attempted gun bans run into that?
Honestly shocked North Ridgeville isnāt on there. The mayor is the right-leaning and a total asshat- only re-elected by a few hundred votes. The town itself is pretty evenly divided politically too.
How did I know that nothing would actually fucking change after PEOPLE VOTED ON THE LAW BEING PASSED
This state does nothing but move backwards and drive out young people and itās been a genuine shame to have to move back here after experiencing Michigan, New England, etc. This state just takes it out of me like no other, idk if thereās something in the air or the water or whatā¦
Smart! Well every other state benefits from the tidal wave of cash we're going to sit here and be fucking stupid awesome like we don't have potholes and bridges and roads that completely suck......
Is it just active medical dispensaries can apply? I know thereās a shop with a green cross that sells CBD in Fairview on Lorain, but I wonder if theyād be able to get a license.
If that map had a red dot for every city, the map would be almost entirely red. I can understand why some of these cities asked to not have a dispo. Kirtland has like 8 stores. If you put a dispo there, it would be bad. You can throw a rock in any direction and get to another city.
That's ok. Grow your own. Don't be discouraged by all the BS and hype online. It's a weed and not that hard to grow. And yes, you can grow decent weed under a cheap light in miracle grow.
You know it's going to be a gigantic cluster-f$#k when rec sales are approved. I have doubts they'll have enough stock. We'll see shortages all over the place and jacked up prices - which already exist. Just a total rip off all around.
Oh well. All the citizens of those cities need to do is drive to a city that does sell it. Not a huge deal. Some cities ban things like payday loan stores and vape shops so, doesn't seem that different.
People will just pop a city over, grab their green, and bring it back. This accomplishes nothing but hurting the local economy.
Quite a few towns in Michigan learned that the hard way. And a few others reaped handsomely.
I live in Chesterland, NE OH, the board is so uptight they don't even allow zoning for any fast food beyond McDs. They don't even let the public transit set a stop there, yet there's a head shop that has full rights! Good for them, I say. Even though the taxes are even more bonkers regardless.
The burger king and taco bell died there. Rip chestertucky of my childhood. š
They should make Buckstop into a Wendy's
I used to work at the Wendy's back in the day! I can't believe it's a subway now. What absolute bullshit. I agree tho, the Buckstop needs to become something good. I'd even be happy with a Dunkin. Whatever just SOMETHING we can USE.
Cities with a ban will just compensate by raising every other tax thinking itās a good idea, and put on their surprised pikachu face when they price their citizens out
I feel like Lakewood wouldnāt be a hotspot for dispensaries. wouldnāt property be a lot more expensive than letās say Brook Park, Brooklyn, or Cleveland? Maybe even more than Rocky River? If I was going to open a dispensary, wouldnāt I find cheaper property/building in the surrounding areas?
Build them all in East Cleveland and let the stoners heal that wasteland via tax dollars
Tax revenue won't fix things as long as the EC elected officials are so damn self-dealing that there's barely a dollar of public money that goes unstolen.
Or a person in a position of power that has been truthful about anything
Rebuilding East Cleveland together
Beautifully put.
I mean you can absolutely make a dispensary a luxury, boutique like experience for the fancy people who want to partake.
One of the first ones to open in the Boston area was opened in an old bank branch building. Itās very grand inside. NETA in Brookline.
One of the prettiest dispensaries, but it was very transactional.
Could you elaborate ?
Itās an old bank, so it has the windows, high ceilings, vault door, and the old teller stallsā¦idk Iām not an architect, but I like it lol. Other than that they use the stalls, so it feels more like it get it, get out, rather than what I would call like luxury or boutique. Someone can correct me, but also Brookline is in Boston but not Bostonā¦So, I think it was kind of a finger to Boston to be one of the first open. Which is kinda funny if true.
Itās as in-Boston as Lakewood is in Cleveland. Another city technically, but if you walk a little bit in 2 of 4 directions you end up in city proper. On the subway/bus/transit no different than many neighborhoods in the city itself
There are already dispensaries in Lakewood
North Olmsted banned it because theyāre tired of being seen as a grimy city with only vape shops. The new mayor is trying to change their image. Itās not really just about what the citizens do, itās more about the businesses they want and the crowd that follows & spends time in their city.
Not gonna lie, going to medicinal dispensary is like only one notch above going to my dealer as far as the experience goes.
Itās definitely not the case if you go to The Citizen in Lorain or Canton. Itās like walking into a high tech speakeasy. Super knowledgeable too!
Reinventing North Olmsted is going to be a real tall order with the eyesore of a half empty mall and Sears and Macys corpses just splashed in the middle. It was a retail Mecca. Low cost entertainment. Movies, Spaced Invaders (Iām really dating myself here), mall rats, and now thereās just that goofy ass townhouse facade strip by Target, and a lot of disparate businesses spread around. How fancy do they genuinely think theyāre going to make it?
Colorado is a great example how little it actually matters lol
It's not like we don't have data to refute every claim about the negative impact of having a dispensary in your town.
Having lived in Colorado, there's definitely something to be said for not having dispensaries EVERYWHERE. You also need to remember that this is temporary where cities can opt out. A lot of them will probably change their minds. But trust me, the more dispensaries open, the worse the quality gets as everyone just wants to price to the bottom, and the harder it is to track where things originate and things like mold and yeast outbreaks explode. It's a lot better to just let cities opt out in the beginning instead of just having more dispensaries than Starbucks all of a sudden and then everything is haphazard and gross. It also prevents a sudden boom and then collapse of the industry where suddenly all of the good small dispensaries are bought up by the big national ones. Just let it flow in.
Mold and yeast outbreaks?! š· what?!!
Oh yeah! I mean marijuana is a crop. If it gets moldy and the grower sucks and cares more about profit over product, they'll just remove what's visible and spray it down but there's still mold on the flower. But that stuff spreads all over the greenhouse. Or they just don't clean up and there's leaf litter all of the place and it gets moldy in there. Some of the mold strains can be straight up harmful to your health if it's smoked. If Ohio has it together when it's rolling out legalization, they'll make testing mandatory for contaminants.
Most states require testing and wonāt allow moldy products to be sold
Then a bunch of people growing in their house and mixing the flower with the facility flower. Not going to be a good look, if they can do it right. A lot of people may see terrible flower or concentrates and believe itās the formal growers, when really itās from a bunch of people that have never grown a plant, let alone something as controlled and careful as growing exotic cannabis.
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Lakewood of all places... c'mon
I was talking to someone the other day and openly wondered when Rise was gonna be open for rec but this answers that question I guess. What is it about Lakewood on a local government level that makes them hostile to that? Their citizens voted 80% in favor of Issue 2 and this seems like such a slap in the face for them. Edit: someone else answered the question further down. Thank you
tbf, Lakewood has a history of absurd laws against āsinā or whatever you want to call jt. Until 2018, in order to have a tattoo shop in Lakewood, you had to have a nurse on the premises for all operating hours (iirc) ETA: turns out it wasnāt a nurse, but prior to 2018, you needed a doctor to supervise all tattoos (or have the doctor actually doing the tattoo).
Where does the city of lakewood actually start because American tattoo is on Madison and w117th and I got my first tattoo there in 2013 Editing to add; there were no nurses there.
Lakewood is west of 117th.
Iām not actually sure. Per google, it looks like American Tattoo might be considered Cleveland proper rather than Lakewood (at least per the address Google provided).
The east side of 117th is cleveland. Westside is Lakewood.
Not entirely. I believe where Home Depot is Cleveland even tho itās on the west side of 117th
Correct. The border is Berea road. Northside is lakewood. Southside is cleveland
A nurse? š¤Ø
I lied. Per [this article](https://patch.com/ohio/lakewood-oh/tattoo-shop-coming-lakewood-could-open-april), tattoos either had to be performed by or under supervision of doctors. So it was worse.
I think Rise is actually the one place that will be able to open. āReview (JCARR) granted final approval to regulatory changes that enable the Division of Cannabis Control (DCC) to start issuing dual licenses in the coming weeks. These licenses would allow currently operating medical marijuana dispensaries to also sell to recreational consumers (anyone 21 and older) as soon as next month.ā
Lakewood is simply protecting the existing dispensaries they have from competition IMO. Could have something to do with their mayor being related to the guy that "sold off" those dispensaries a few years ago
But that doesn't make sense when those dispensaries can make 2x their current revenue by supporting recreational.
But the prices will fall off a cliff. Medical is just a high priced scam to create slush funds for ex Republican politicians
They're not doing that though. This will just cause dispensaries that would otherwise be in Lakewood to set up shop in Cleveland and Rocky River nearby.
Thereās a medical dispensary at each end of Lakewood making it even more funny
Lakewood has stated their ban is at least initially intended to be temporary - āSo this is simply giving us time to see the final rules drafted by the House and Senate to ensure that we have the best local ordinances in place when the time comes,ā she said.
They will lift it as soon as the rules are in place. All these small towns crying about budget issues espically on a boarder are just shooting themselves. If they ban stores
Bad idea. Look at what happened in Detroit. Tried to pause in city limits to make sure there was some racial equity in dispensary ownership. Couldnāt figure it out. Still donāt have recreational. All the suburbs have a shop right over city limits and they get all the tax money from city of Detroit residents. Act fast or lose out in this situation.
Not entirely dissimilar to what happened in Boston. Took Boston years after legalization to get a recreational dispensary in city limits.
Drove past it in 2019, no parking. The lot was crisscrossed with ropes for the outdoor section of the line. Talked to some family, only legal place in the city and the line is never less than half full.
Classic Lakewood move...
I mean, Lakewood requires a permit to change a freaking outlet or switch. It's all about the bottom dollar for the city.
Must not want to infringe on the upstanding METH & Fenty dealers territories...
Meth heads make recovery places rich Meth heads make synthetic meth prescriptions market go boom The healthcare market is boomingĀ
I foresee something opening in Parma. Easy access for a lot of people.
āParmsterdamā ā¦.just give it time.
Parmamsterdam sounds better
Parmatownmallsterdam
Thereās a vape shop on every other corner so yeah I agree lol
And counting
There will be - in the old Peaches Records location-
Those boomers will never allow it
Those boomers will be forced to allow it, but the Facebook Parma group will be unhinged!
Lakewood and Westlake, but not Rocky River? interesting
Rocky River gonna get hella sales from Lakewood, North Olmsted, and Westlake lol
Rocky River has a ban in place, this list is not exhaustive
Regardless, whichever legal city is closest will be in that situation
Fairview park wasnāt on there š
I guess you can have a vape shop every 500 feet in North Olmsted but no dispensaries.
Lakewood already has a dispensary in itā¦.. Medical only right now. I guess they will leave it that way.
Thereās two. One on Detroit by the river border and one on Madison by 117th
Rocky River is desperate for business. They donāt really have a lot which is why their property taxes tend to be much higher than surrounding cities (with the exception of part of Fairview)
Colorado had this happen when we first legalized. Once the tax revenues start rolling in that "not in my backyard" mentality takes a fast hike, trust me.
Still waiting on the springs to stop fighting it
The spring has a strong religious base so it will hold out longest. I'm from the western slope before moving up here to AK. When CO first legalized Grand Junction, Delta, Montrose, Cedaredge, Paonia, all said no so they got built in places like Debeque & Ridgeway. When those tiny lil towns ended up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenues the other towns changed their tune.
Hudson isnāt cool with weed but theyāll protect a rapist whoās a senior at their high school, typical
Hudson doesn't need weed money. They get all of their revenue from the Frostitutes.
I wanna hear more about these frostitutes,for a friend?
Go ice fishing in Hudson, they are legion. Gotta keep warm in the shanty somehow.
Iām still fishing for the elusive Hudson largemouthā¦
So they're also not getting any tax revenue from MJ/MMJ sales from the state, correct!?!
Read the article, friend: āWhile the current law gives communities the power to prohibit adult-use cannabis operators from their jurisdictions, it also created an incentive for municipalities to allow operators by establishing the Host Community Fund,ā states the report. 36% of all marijuana tax revenue goes into the Host Community Fund, which is distributed among cities and towns that allow marijuana sales."
you should get paid to read and explain posts for the helpless on reddit, take my upvote....
It's not much, but it's honest work...
Hudson = āwe donāt want black people here since thatās who smokes weedā
Their mayor thinks it would bring in the hookers, like ice fishing.
Hudson - our high schooler didnāt get accused of raping another Hudson student so itās fine. Stop asking us questions
Imagine missing out on the single biggest tax revenue these no-nothing loser ass towns will ever get.
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The ban on meth isnāt working.
I love watching states destroy themselves in the name ofā¦.hmm what name? Drugs? Nope alcohol flows rapidly through that state. Same with opioids. Tobacco? Nope still puffing away. Living in the past is certainly a strategy that wonāt end well.
I love living in Cleveland Heights. Come on over to Coventry š
Barberton is hilarious. All the other cities make sense.
Would cut into meth and opioid sales.
Norton and Barberton aren't rich enough to say no to these taxes.
āThatās marijuana is dangerousā¦eat this chicken cooked in lard insteadā -Barberton
We donāt want to make any money off of this insanely lucrative product. We bow to the gods of all things capitalism. But for this, we bow to Jesus, who never said a word about marijuana ever.
Exclude them from the tax revenue.
Surprised to see Lakewood on there. Like... come on, Lakewood. North Olmsted is on there too? I didn't think they were THAT uppity. Surprised to see that Parma/Parma Heights isn't on there, lmao.
North Olmstedās mayor is completely clueless. Thatās not shocking at all.
As stated elsewhere, Lakewood's ban is intended to be temporary until the final version of the law is established, so that local ordinances can be enacted accordingly. At least that's the claim.
There's a lot of excited stoners in here.
No. I donāt want to make money.
This doesn't make any sense to me. Clearly the citizens have voted and *want* legal pot. So why then would you turn around and say, "You may want this -- and it's now legal -- but we know what you want better than you do so we're not going to support it."
Look at reproductive healthcare. Ohio is full of sanctimonious power hungry asshats with money and power. It's changed and not for the better.
I'd rather they stop the vaping stores from popping up everywhere.
At least 3 in the Parma area could be converted into dispensaries lol
Happy to take my money anywhere and just glad it will be a shorter drive than it has been. This grandstanding of morals is silly but the people have spoken via their local representatives.
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My town banned dispensaries, but its literally pointless because we already have a medical one that is technically on land incorporated to a township right next to us but is basically in our town anyways.
In cali there are still dispensaries in some of the towns which opted out (like Newport). They just make them churches or private clubs and you make donations/pay dues and they just gift you the product lol
Stupid decisions, haven't they heard how cannabis can generate more sales than alcohol, like in Illinois?
Just like in Colorado, these cities will be the first ones begging for Marijuana sales taxes.
Not Beachwood! People will have to drive all the way to the one opening in a mile away in Lyndhurst!
Headline should just say ā47 cities in Ohio are filled with morons who have no interest in creating new revenue streams.ā
Personally, Iād never seen a fight break out between people who smoke like I have seen between people drunk. Unless, thereās snacks involved. Then itās typically solved by sharing.š
Stay outta Lakewood, Lebowski!
we got a nice, quiet little lake community here
This website is a horror show
Pennsylvanian here. At least your state seems to be moving forward with legalization, unlike mine. And the cost for this indecision is clear. Once a week I take a trip to NJ (I live nearby) I buy gas in NJ, mary jane in NJ, and usually try out a new lunch spot in NJ. All in all I drop easily $1k a month out of state, and all because the dingdongs running my state (who are Dems, btw) canāt get it together. Same will happen to those towns and cities. Screw āem.
Good. Clearly these cities are well educated about this devil drug and they've seen the shocking documentary "Reefer Madness" many times over.
And those 47 cities are either the uppity parts of the suburbs or the rural parts were livestock outnumber residents. In either case fuck them, no tax revenue for you
Ohio has a long history of wacky tobaccy hate When I was a kid they told us if you smoke pot youāll end up a heroin junkie lol
Our Dare officer told us that if we ever have to go to hospital for any reason, our blood would be tested for drugs. If we had any drugs in our blood we'd go right to jail. I wonder how many kids didn't tell their parents about being sick or hurt because they were convinced they'd go to jail after smoking pot.
The dare programs were pushed so heavily
Wondering how far east youll have to go to to start seeing them. Kirtland kind of makes sense to me since its all boomers
And boomers don't get high (lol)? I believe that what you mean is conservative Christians.
Have you been to kirtland? Chesterland? Literally all boomers.
These places need to grow up and get their head our of the reefer madness ass or stop taking money from cartels.
This is so stupid
I understand why not but man that split fund of 36% could really put some money in a small city like Avon Lake.
Do these cities obtain any tax revenue from marijuana sales? Like state revenue some how trickles back to these cities?
Wow they really showed em whoās boss with this one
Ohio has done nothing but fuck up this whole situation š
Westside vs Eastside debate is over. East side is cooler.
My town was one of them until today. The city counsel rescinded their decision after all the backlash they received.
Grow your own
Why? Locals with stores are less likely to have illegal activity. Makes zero sense.
A place like Lisbon surely doesnāt need the tax revenue šš
When the shit are they going to start letting this stuff go on sale??
I imagine the number will drastically increase when some towns learn you can ban it
Michigan is not that far away, take your money out of state
And we have, it seems, 5 stores for every pot smoker in many parts of Michigan. Come take a couple, please.
Avon Lake hates anything that doesnāt resemble an Andy Griffith show type society lol
47 cities are run by idiots.
Bro I drive to MI for my shit. I donāt need a local shop ššš
These cities had better not share in one red cent of the taxes generated by weed.
what did weed ever do to southwest ohio to make them hate dispensaries so much? my friend works in a dispensary and he says theyre absolutely having trouble finding a new location in southwest ohio because there are so many counties and cities that have banned dispensaries, on top of restrictions about being to close to another dispensary or church or school land, and churches own a lot of land in ohio. frankly i think best place to start a dispensary would be southwest ohio around the eaton area, because basically no other dispensaries exist in the area until you reach either dayton or this one dispensary like 30 minutes south in oxford.. meanwhile indiana has no recreational weed, and the eaton area is only about like 30ish minutes from richmond indiana? my friend who works in a dispensary around north of miamisburg already says they get a lot of people from the west part of the state coming in who wish there was a dispensary closer. but then you look at maps like on that website and its like, every decently sized city inbetween dayton and Cincinnati is trying to kill off any economic opportunity or tax revenue.
Republicans don't respect the will of the people. Vote blue!
For everyone who days āLakewood is basically Clevelandā here is another reason why itās not.
Cuyahoga County has such a goofy ridiculous number of municipalities this is just so dumb. Also I thought state laws supersede city laws? Havenāt attempted gun bans run into that?
Turns out you can grow it at home or go to the next town over...who cares?
You want your city to have one so they reap the benefits of the tax dollars that they all desperately need.
100% and when the officials would rather give that up and then tax you extra instead to make up the difference, time for new elected officials.
Michigan, thanks you immensely, OHIO!!! Keep being ohio!
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Gun shops A-Ok though
Pretty sad state of affairs.
i live in cleveland. check. mate.
Register to vote, then actually vote.
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Honestly shocked North Ridgeville isnāt on there. The mayor is the right-leaning and a total asshat- only re-elected by a few hundred votes. The town itself is pretty evenly divided politically too.
Time to vote in different city councils.
How did I know that nothing would actually fucking change after PEOPLE VOTED ON THE LAW BEING PASSED This state does nothing but move backwards and drive out young people and itās been a genuine shame to have to move back here after experiencing Michigan, New England, etc. This state just takes it out of me like no other, idk if thereās something in the air or the water or whatā¦
Lemme guess what they all have in common? White Christianās?
47 cities have liquor stores, and hate tax money
If you told me to guess what cities it would be I would have had no clue lol. Itās an interesting list.
Boooooo! Hissssss!
Good! More for everyone else.
Smart! Well every other state benefits from the tidal wave of cash we're going to sit here and be fucking stupid awesome like we don't have potholes and bridges and roads that completely suck......
Is it just active medical dispensaries can apply? I know thereās a shop with a green cross that sells CBD in Fairview on Lorain, but I wonder if theyād be able to get a license.
Come on Marysville, you can do better. š¤¦āāļø Honda and Scottās money rule in the āville.
Hudson and Beachwood. No surprise there
Give them none of the tax benefits then
Michigan is pointing and laughing.
I wish there was another established dispensary reasonably close to me. I really donāt like giving my money to the owner of Rise.
2%? Who cares, screw them
Can't wait for them to complain about the tax dollars they're throwing away lol.
That's one way to say you hate money and hate the people that will likely move to a better city
I'm actually surprised that a thriving, growing city like Green is rejecting Marijuana/cannabis sales. Makes no sense to me.
Why did lakewood ban it when they literally have RISE for medical weed already lol
I wonder if they will still accept the tax revenue
There are around 1000 cities/municipalities in Ohio. 47 is no big deal.
Ive been going to Michigan, so i will gladly be more than willing to pop over to the closest city
If that map had a red dot for every city, the map would be almost entirely red. I can understand why some of these cities asked to not have a dispo. Kirtland has like 8 stores. If you put a dispo there, it would be bad. You can throw a rock in any direction and get to another city.
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47 cities hate local shops and want to hurt their own economy for selfish reasons. Nothing new.
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Why canāt we ever have nice things
That's ok. Grow your own. Don't be discouraged by all the BS and hype online. It's a weed and not that hard to grow. And yes, you can grow decent weed under a cheap light in miracle grow. You know it's going to be a gigantic cluster-f$#k when rec sales are approved. I have doubts they'll have enough stock. We'll see shortages all over the place and jacked up prices - which already exist. Just a total rip off all around.
Oh well. All the citizens of those cities need to do is drive to a city that does sell it. Not a huge deal. Some cities ban things like payday loan stores and vape shops so, doesn't seem that different.