Month: January 2024

Blunt message to Shiloh Council: ‘If cannabis allowed in, what next, heroin & cocaine?’

SHILOH — A marijuana salesman visited Village Council Tuesday night and got a chilly reception after discussing a business venture he would like to bring to the area. On the agenda was a cannabis cultivation facility where Council and residents got to hear two polar opposite views centering around cannabis.

Ashland & Lexington exercise local control, both ban recreational marijuana (VIDEO)

NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — This year the pothole season came early for many communities as they deal with the aftermath of the November elections. Despite drug overdoses being the leading cause of injury death in Ohio since 2007, Ohioans voted to legalize marijuana for ‘recreational purposes.’ Last year over one

City of Groveport called out for its ban on faith-based items at festival

GROVEPORT — After fifty years in existence, the City of Groveport decided this past year to ban the sale of “faith-based” items at its annual Apple Butter Day festival. The city’s secular approach to control commerce did not last very long. A legal challenge by one of the seventy vendors

Faith leaders believe Bellville cannabis will bring problems for local policing (VIDEO)

BELLVILLE — As a compromise with local clergy and law enforcement, Bellville Village Council decided last week to temporarily freeze any marijuana business startups from coming to the Village for six months. Outside the purview of the public, planning for a recreational marijuana dispensary had been in the works at

66 Clergy on proposed Bellville marijuana dispensary: ‘It will steal, kill & destroy’

BELLVILLE — With the passage of State Issue 2, the Marijuana Industry in Ohio is expanding into localities, and in some cases, disguised in camouflage. At the admonition of local faith leaders, Bellville Village Council voted 5-1 Tuesday night for a moratorium prohibiting marijuana businesses from coming into the village.