Legal marijuana policy
Legal marijuana is one of the major issues the Columbus Dispatch put to 2026 gubernatorial candidates Amy Acton, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Libertarian Don Kissick. Ohio continues to implement and debate the scope of its adult-use framework, taxation, and local control under the next governor.
What direction should Ohio take on legal marijuana?
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Sources
Columbus Dispatch — https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2026/10/04/ohio-governor-candidates-amy-acton-and-vivek-ramaswamy-on-the-issues/88588933007
How would Ohio's gubernatorial hopefuls handle taxes, data centers, legal marijuana, the death penalty and abortion access?
Positions on this issue · liberal → conservative
- Expand adult-use access, lower taxes, and allow more social-consumption and home-grow options
- Support the current legal market while improving equity licensing and expungement
- Keep existing adult-use law largely intact and focus on orderly implementation
- Tighten advertising, potency, and local opt-out rules while keeping sales legal
- Roll back adult-use legalization and return to medical-only or stricter criminal penalties