As recently as 2022, he told reporters he did not back legalization.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, listens during a news conference on the Child Tax Credit, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
When Ohio voters were considering a 2023 ballot issue to legalize recreational marijuana, which got 57% backing from the electorate, BrownBrown posted on social mediathat his Republican opponent in this year’s U.S. Senate race, entrepreneur Bernie Moreno, voted against Ohio’s legalization ballot issue.
That move would bring federal law more in sync with the 24 states, including Ohio, that allow marijuana use for recreational purposes and the 17 states that allow medical marijuana. The disconnect between state and federal law on marijuana has led to problems for marijuana business operators, including an inability to access banks because of marijuana’s federally illegal status. That’s forced most of the industry’s transactions to be cash-based, which industry leaders say poses a security threat to both their facilities and employees.Sabrina Eaton writes about the federal government and politics in Washington, D.C., for cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.
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