In an opinion column in the Columbus Dispatch, Lee Hannah, Ph.D., professor of political science at Wright State University, explores the implementation of recreational marijuana in Ohio.
Hannah and his co-author, Daniel Mallinson, Ph.D.,an associate professor of public policy and administration at Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, examine why the states are central to the story of American cannabis policy, whether growing pains will come with Ohio’s marijuana program and if recreational marijuana weed out medical cannabis.
Read the column: “Marijuana sales are coming to Ohio. Will growing pains derail program?”


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