One of Ohio’s oldest marijuana-legalization groups has kicked out its president for supporting the ResponsibleOhio effort to legalize marijuana in Ohio.
Rob Ryan of Blue Ash was removed in June as leader of the Ohio chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). The decision comes amid escalating tensions among Ohio’s marijuana activists over how to legalize. Ryan and others see ResponsibleOhio as an important step forward. Others see the well-financed effort as wealthy people manipulating the political system to cut out the little guy from what could be a billion-dollar industry in Ohio by 2020.
Twelve members of the Ohio NORML board of directors, most of them leaders of the nine regional chapters, voted to remove Ryan from the state presidency.
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