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In Medina, Ohio, smoking pot is as bad as beating your wife

With court approval, Medina is re-implementing an unusual ordinance, which goes further than the state law and carries a mandatory three-day jail sentence.

While the rest of the state considers possession of less than 100 grams of marijuana to be similar, in a legal sense, to jaywalking – punishable by a $100 fine – Medina’s […]

Constitutional Shenanigans

You’ve heard me rail about Ernest Istook’s bizarre spending provision that would actually prevent metro systems from accepting advertising that promotes legalization of marijuana (despite what Istook says, it doesn’t prevent advertising illegal activites, but only advertising advocacy for a particular political position). It’s very hard to get any more unconstitutional than preventing the expression […]

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