CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Colorado was the first state to legalize recreational marijuana sales. But now its sales are crashing, with dispensaries and cultivators shuttering. We’re talking about whether the trend has any lessons for Ohio, on Today in Ohio.
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You can now join the conversation. Call 833-648-6329 (833-OHTODAY) if you’d like to leave a message we can play on the Here’s what else we’re asking about today: We’re days or weeks away from recreational marijuana sales being legal in Ohio, with the promise of new tax revenue for the state’s shrinking coffers. Is a story about the sharp drop in marijuana sales in Colorado an portent of bad news for Ohio? Cleveland still won’t say that the computer hacking that shut down City Hall Monday and Tuesday is ransomware, in which hackers demand cash to return access to city workers.
But it sure looks like ransomware. What has happened with other cities his by ransomware attacks? Is Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost really standing with some Democrats in a battle before the Ohio Supreme Court? What’s the case, and what’s his reasoning? The U.S.
Justice Department has responded to Jim Jorda.
