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Columbus Dispatch
Opinion poll: ‘Heartbeat’ bill divides Ohio evenly
We should be able to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, refuse union
membership regardless of our workplace and cast our ballot on a weekend
before an election.
But we don’t think pot should be legalized outright, are OK with having
guns in locked vehicles parked under the Statehouse or Riffe Center and
are deadlocked on whether abortions should be banned once a fetal
heartbeat is detected.
All of these issues that were part of a Saperstein Associates poll of
more than 1,000 Ohioans for The Dispatch might be voted on by the
legislature or voters statewide at some point.
Marijuana
The questions about marijuana bring almost opposite responses.
Legalizing it for medical use wins favor, 63 percent to 35 percent,
while making pot legal for any reason is opposed 59 percent to37
percent, the poll found.
“If someone’s in pain or suffering from the effects of chemo, then I
don’t feel that that’s a problem,” said poll respondent Lydia Ritz, 61,
who lives in the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn. “The medical need for it
would far outweigh the risks.”
But as a kindergarten teacher in Catholic schools, Ritz said supporting
recreational use of marijuana would go against everything she’s
teaching her students…
Read the rest of
the article at the Columbus Dispatch
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