November 15, 2023

Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday called for changes to Issue 2 to address children's safety and public smoking but said the state must ultimately respect Ohioans who voted for legal marijuana.

Fifty-seven percent of voters on Tuesday approved a law to allow adults 21 and older to buy, possess and grow marijuana, according to unofficial election results. The measure goes into effect Dec. 7, and DeWine said he's asked the Legislature to make tweaks before it becomes official.

"What the people have clearly told us is they want legal marijuana in Ohio," DeWine told reporters after an event in Columbus. "We are going to see that they have that, but we've also got to live up to our responsibility to all the people in the state of Ohio, whether they voted for it or voted against it ... that we do this in a very responsible way, we do it in a respectful way. And we do it, frankly, the Ohio way."

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