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05/15/2026

THEY QUIT COLLECTING SIGNATURES BEFORE THE SB56 DEADLINE AND NEVER TOLD OHIO

And honestly, the more details that come out, the more enraging this entire situation becomes.

Ohio gave supporters of the referendum roughly 45 days to collect nearly 250,000 valid signatures statewide AFTER delaying approval of the language. Forty-five days to try to overturn a bill that rewrote Issue 2, destroyed businesses, killed jobs, ripped products off shelves, and made people criminals again overnight.

And now we find out that according to the article and the people involved, the paid collection effort was shut down BEFORE THE DEADLINE EVEN HIT.

Not slowed down.
Not “falling behind.”
SHUT DOWN.

Meanwhile the public had no idea.

Businesses across Ohio were turning themselves into petition hubs because they believed there was still a real chance to stop this.
Volunteers were BEGGING to help collect signatures and allegedly getting ignored.
People were driving county to county trying to sign.
Collectors were standing outside in freezing temperatures all day long because they believed this fight was still alive.

And what were we being told the whole time?

That things were going good.
That they were on track.
That momentum was strong.
Many of us were hearing they were even WELL past what they needed.

Meanwhile apparently behind closed doors the operation was collapsing from greed, money issues, terrible organization, horrible communication, and complete chaos.

Collectors are now publicly saying they weren’t fully paid.
The article says the money dried up.
People were allegedly pulled off the streets before the deadline.
Volunteers trying to help couldn’t even get responses.

And nobody told Ohio.

Nobody told the businesses depending on this.
Nobody told the people sacrificing their time.
Nobody told the workers wondering if they were about to lose their jobs.
Nobody told the customers panicking about becoming criminals again over products they legally bought for years.

We didn’t find out until basically the day before many businesses had to shut down and strip their shelves.

That’s the part that is so unbelievably infuriating.

No extension filed.
No massive emergency public push.
No transparency.
No statewide announcement saying the operation was collapsing.

Nothing.

Just silence while people kept fighting for something they thought was still moving forward.

And despite ALL OF THAT…
Despite not even using the full 45 days…
Despite the operation allegedly shutting down early…
Despite the chaos…
Despite the lack of organization…
Despite volunteers allegedly being ignored…
Despite collectors allegedly not getting paid…

They STILL reportedly got around 208,000 signatures.

208,000 signatures in a shortened, collapsing effort.

That should tell everyone something very important:
The problem was NEVER lack of support.

Ohioans WERE fighting back.

This did not fail because nobody cared.
It failed because the people running the operation apparently let one of the biggest grassroots cannabis movements Ohio has ever seen implode behind closed doors while the rest of us were still out there fighting to save our businesses, jobs, and futures.

People have every right to be furious over this.

News Article In Comments!

05/13/2026

Officials seized over approximately 11.5 pounds of ma*****na (5,200 grams); three handguns; one rifle with a drum magazine; and over $7,300 during a warrant ex*****on on Wednesday. https://www.wdtn.com/news/high-risk-drug-warrant-in-dayton-yields-guns-cash-and-ma*****na-one-arrested/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WDTN-TV

05/13/2026

The FBI is looking into potential corruption in the burgeoning ma*****na industry across the United States, but particularly with licensing in western states.

05/08/2026

Dave Yost just quit as Ohio Attorney General.

Not resigned at the end of his term.
Not after the lawsuits were over.
Not after the dust settled.

Right in the middle of everything.

Right in the middle of the SB56 lawsuits.
Right in the middle of constitutional challenges.
Right while businesses across Ohio are fighting for survival.
Right while people are still trying to figure out how they became criminals overnight over products that were legal one day and banned the next.

And we’re all supposed to believe this is just normal timing?

This man spent years helping build the system that led to this mess. The same state leadership that stood by while an entire industry was targeted, rewritten, restricted, taxed, criminalized, and handed over to a small controlled market.

Hundreds of pages.
Months of planning.
Meetings.
Lobbying.
Rewrites.
Backroom pressure.
Endless energy spent figuring out how to shut down businesses, erase jobs, and turn regular people into offenders again.

Then suddenly… he’s gone.

Maybe it’s coincidence.
Maybe it’s political pressure.
Maybe he sees where this is headed.
Maybe he doesn’t want his name attached to what comes next if courts start tearing parts of this apart.

Nobody knows yet.

But people are paying attention now.

The Fremont/Sandusky case already cracked the door open.
The Franklin County lawsuit is still moving through the courts as businesses continue challenging the constitutionality and enforcement of SB56.
The state has already had to defend this law in court.
Businesses are still fighting.
Customers are still angry.
And Ohio still hasn’t answered the biggest question of all:

Why did the state spend so much time destroying an industry that was operating openly, paying taxes, checking IDs, posting lab tests, and serving thousands of adults?

This fight isn’t over.
Not even close.

05/06/2026

😚💨 Lower rates of obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes? That's what researchers are finding among cannabis consumers.

New analysis adds to a growing body of evidence linking cannabis use with better metabolic health outcomes.

Not exactly the outcome you'd expect if the "lazy stoner" stereotype held up.

🔗 Read more:
https://norml.org/news/2026/04/23/analysis-cannabis-use-associated-with-lower-likelihood-of-metabolic-disorders-including-hypertension-type-2-diabetes-and-obesity/

05/06/2026

Kill all the mom and pop stores, but Target is in the business now. Seriously wtf.

Major retailer Target is deepening its involvement in the hemp-derived THC beverage market by launching sales in three more states—significantly expanding beyond a pilot program it rolled out in Minnesota last year—even as a federal law is set to ban the products later this year. Last year, the ...

05/06/2026

Brian Stewart wasn’t just another vote on SB56, and that’s what people need to understand before they walk into a voting booth this year. He was part of shaping the framework behind it, part of the process that turned something that was legal and operating across the state into something that disappeared almost overnight.

They called it regulation, but anyone who actually lived through it knows that’s not what it felt like. There was no transition, no adjustment period, no real path forward for the people who had built businesses under the law as it existed at the time. One day it was legal, the next day it was gone, and all the time, money, and work people put into it didn’t matter anymore.

What makes it worse is that this didn’t happen by accident or because nobody understood what would happen. This was written, negotiated, and pushed forward by people in positions to know exactly what the outcome was going to be, and Stewart was one of those people. When you help build something like that, you don’t get to step back later and act like you were just along for the ride.

People can argue all day about whether there should have been regulation or changes, but wiping out an entire side of an industry that was already operating in the open, paying taxes, and following the rules that existed at the time isn’t some neutral fix. That’s a decision with real consequences, and the people who made that decision own it whether they want to or not.

Now he’s asking for another term, and that’s the part that should actually matter to people, because this isn’t some abstract policy debate anymore. This is something that already happened, something people already felt, and something that came directly from the choices made by the people we put into office.

At some point, we as a whole have to stop letting people like this make decisions in our lives and make us criminals overnight.

05/05/2026

On today's episode of fear mongering by the government, Your cannabis will make you schizophrenic or bipolar: White House Raises Alarm About 'High-Potency' Ma*****na And Its Marketing In New National Drug Strategy: "While all drugs carry some level of risk, ma*****na has the highest conversion rate from psychosis to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder."
~Insert wtf sound bite here~

The White House released a new National Drug Control Strategy on Monday that raises alarm about “high-potency” ma*****na and expresses concerns that international cartels and crime groups “exploit” state cannabis legalization laws. It also discusses the forthcoming federal recriminalization ...

05/04/2026

Jamie Callender isn’t anti-cannabis.
His own words prove that. His vote however says something else.

He said:
“Those people are not criminals and shouldn’t be considered criminals.”

He acknowledged cannabis users are:
“veterans… business owners… people who pay their taxes…”

And when asked about SB56 changes?
He admitted they could lead to:
“recriminalizing ma*****na.”

But then he still voted for SB56.

A bill he called:
“the best that we have seen”
and one that was supposed to create a
“regulatory framework around intoxicating hemp.”

Let’s be real about what actually happened.

Businesses that followed the law got shut down.
Jobs disappeared overnight.
An entire industry was wiped out instead of regulated.

So which is it?

If cannabis users “aren’t criminals”…
why support a bill that treated them—and the businesses serving them—like they were?

If you knew it could go too far…
why vote yes anyway?

This isn’t about misunderstanding the issue.

It’s about knowing exactly what was happening…
and voting for it anyway.