WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.720 --> 00:00:04.919 It's say forty here fifty five Carsey Talks station around 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:08.519 Thomas Fish and everybode a very happy, happy Monday, and 3 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:12.119 welcoming to the fifty five KRSSE Morning Show. We're Ohio's day. 4 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:16.800 Representative Tex Fisher. Tex Fisher represents District fifty nine. Happens 5 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:18.879 to be the youngest selected official in the state of Ohio, 6 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:21.280 at least from the House of Representatives tax Good to 7 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:23.760 have you on the fifty five Carson Morning Show, My friend, welcome. 8 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:26.920 Oh thank you for having me twenty nine years old. 9 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.280 Have I got that right? Yes, sir, well, it's an 10 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:34.600 amazing accomplishment and congratulations on reaching that lofty goal at 11 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:38.320 such a young age. And you are fighting to protect 12 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:40.600 what we voted for and overwhelming numbers here in the 13 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:43.439 state of Ohio. That was an issue too. November twenty three, 14 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:47.399 fifty seven percent of Ohioans voted yes to legalize recreational 15 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:50.200 cannabis use in marijuana use in the state of Ohio, 16 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:53.520 and immediately it was actually mostly driven by the Republicans 17 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.399 side of the ledger, although you may know some Democrats 18 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:57.479 who are trying to change the law, but this wasn't 19 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:01.359 a constitutional amendment. So the legislative brand can make changes 20 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:05.280 to what we passed by overwhelming majority. What are they 21 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.400 trying to do? You're in opposition to some of these changes. 22 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.480 What are the proposals? What types of changes are being 23 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:13.000 thrown around in Columbus right now? 24 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:18.640 Tex Yeah, I think so. The bill has made admittedly 25 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:20.760 a lot of progress, I think in the right direction. 26 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:23.480 So we're talking about a Senate Bill fifty six I 27 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.159 was introduced at the beginning of the year and moved 28 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:28.079 pretty quickly through the Senate, and then as I got 29 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:29.760 to the House, a lot of changes have been made. 30 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:33.000 So I still have not seen the most up to 31 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.760 date version of the bill, but I do know that 32 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.920 has moved in a pretty significantly positive direction in terms 33 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:40.640 of respecting the world of voters. And I think the 34 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.040 goal of what myself and some of the other folks 35 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:45.719 working on this is we really want this to be 36 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:48.319 more of an implementation of issue too, because there are 37 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:52.120 a lot of language in the BAT initiative was kind 38 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:54.159 of insufficient, It was a little bit vague. It didn't 39 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:58.079 give I think the proper guardrails to the administrative folks 40 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:01.560 at the Division of Cannabis controlled really implement the legal 41 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:03.719 cannabis market in a way that makes sense and is 42 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.959 pro business, So that's what I'm looking for. I think 43 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:08.599 it's making a lot of progress in that direction, but 44 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:12.639 ultimately we weren't entirely there. I think there are definitely 45 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:14.759 some folks that want to see things more restricted, and 46 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:16.840 I certainly you know, understand where they're coming from, but 47 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:19.400 that's not what the people voted for. So I think 48 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:21.199 our job is to try to find the right balance 49 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.520 of making sure we're protecting the intent of what the 50 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:27.719 voters passed an issue too, while also making it a 51 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:29.439 little bit easier for those folks to do business, and 52 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:32.039 also addressing the hemp issue in a smart and reasonable way, 53 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:34.560 because I think that was another big sticking point for 54 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:36.560 myself and some other folks on the Republican side of 55 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:38.960 the legislature that we want to make sure that whatever 56 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:40.599 we do on these is the right thing to do, 57 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:42.560 and not just passing something so we can say we 58 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:45.039 passed something and then end up just you know, and 59 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.319 ending up with a constitutional amendment that we can't change, 60 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:49.719 which is just going to waste a whole lot of 61 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:51.319 everyone's time and money. And I think we can do 62 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:53.840 this the right way and so respectable of the voters. 63 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.479 Well, now is there a division or like a distinction 64 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.759 being drawn between hemp and marijuana? Is that one of 65 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.080 the things that's being bandied about and argued over because 66 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.479 you know, hemp, to me is is just an industrial product. 67 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.719 You can't get high on it. And I remember one 68 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:11.400 politician saying, no self respecting dope d would even be 69 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.120 caught smoking hemp. I mean, it's an exercise and futility 70 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.479 to get high off of it. So, but it has 71 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.120 great industrial You can make any literally anything out of it, 72 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:22.599 clothing and play plastics, and make wood products out of it. 73 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:25.319 So there's a lot of industrial uses for it. I 74 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.840 mean that even is there even a need to regulate 75 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.319 it just because it looks like marijuana? I mean, what's 76 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:32.000 the story on hemp relative to marijuana? 77 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:36.000 Text? So the issue there is sore familiar with, like 78 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:39.800 the Delta eight or the types of intoxicating THHC products 79 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.080 which are hemp derived. Sometimes in some cases they're synthesized. 80 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:47.759 You know, there are some fairly intoxicating products that are 81 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:50.800 very accessible to get right now in gas station's convenience stores, 82 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:52.240 okay and the like. 83 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:56.039 So they're concentrating. They're concentrating the low level hamp it's 84 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:58.639 like less than three percent I suppose in hemp, and 85 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.039 they're taking that in constant trading it into something that 86 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:05.360 is well obviously much more capable of getting someone intoxicated. 87 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.919 Correct, So that under the Farm Bill past several years 88 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:13.000 ago in DC, it actually legalized all these different hemp 89 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:16.240 products with the standard you know, you can't have more 90 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.199 total THHD than point zero three percent by dry weight. 91 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.120 You know, there are a lot of technicalities technicalities involved 92 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:25.879 in that. But the issue that we're seeing is there 93 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:29.680 are intoxicating products that are readily readily available, but under 94 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:34.360 federal law, the recreational adult use cannabis products and any 95 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:38.199 of these intoxicating hemp rite products are two totally different products. 96 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:41.639 So these are federally legal. And I think we all 97 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:43.399 agree there are issues. We don't want kids being able 98 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:45.480 to walk into a gas station and buy like a 99 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:48.439 THHD evate, But I think some of the proposals to 100 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.720 address that we're also kind of an over correction and 101 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:53.639 when end up harming a lot of small businesses that 102 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:55.480 do want to play by the roles and accept that 103 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:57.800 there is a need for regulation. And some quality controls 104 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:59.519 and to make sure kids aren't getting these things. But 105 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:03.000 finding the right balance between addressing the safety issue and 106 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:05.079 also not putting a whole lot of people out of business. 107 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.680 That's that's another another area where it's easier said than dons. 108 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:10.920 Well, I'll tell you what Tex sexless pause if you 109 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:12.399 don't mind, will hold you over and bring you back 110 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:14.319 to talk a little bit more about what's being proposed 111 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.480 and why you know in some cases you're against it 112 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.639 or in favor of it more with Representative Tex Fisher. 113 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:21.240 We'll take a break care but back in just a 114 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:25.759 few brief few minutes. Hang in old dot com. Let's 115 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:28.720 say forty here, forty five care City Talk Station round 116 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:32.360 Thomas Fish and everyone are very happy, happy Monday, and 117 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:36.000 welcoming to the fifty five Carrece Morning Show for Ohio's day. 118 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:40.639 Representative Texts Fisher. Tex Fisher represents District fifty nine. Happens 119 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:42.800 to be the youngest selected official in State of Ohiot 120 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.199 least from the House of Representatives. Tex. Good to have 121 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.279 you on the fifty five cares In morning show. My friend, welcome, 122 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:50.759 oh thank you for having me twenty nine years old. 123 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:53.199 Have I got that right, Yes, sir. 124 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:57.680 Wow, it's an amazing accomplishment and congratulations on reaching that 125 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.639 lofty goal at such a young age, and you are 126 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:04.160 fighting to protect what we voted for and overwhelming numbers. 127 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:06.120 Here in the state of Ohio that was an issue too. 128 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.519 November twenty three, fifty seven percent of Ohioans voted yes 129 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:13.319 to legalize recreational cannabis use in marijuana use in the 130 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:16.600 state of Ohio, and immediately it was actually mostly driven 131 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:18.439 by the Republicans side of the ledger, although you may 132 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:20.319 know some Democrats who are trying to change the law, 133 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:23.879 but this wasn't a constitutional amendment, so the legislative brands 134 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:28.439 can make changes to what we passed by overwhelming majority. 135 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:31.160 What are they trying to do? You're in opposition to 136 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:33.800 some of these changes. What are the proposals? What types 137 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:36.839 of changes are being thrown around in Columbus right now? 138 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:42.480 Tech Yeah, I think so. The bill has made admittedly 139 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:44.600 a lot of progress I think in the right direction. 140 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.319 So we're talking about a Senate Bill fifty six. I 141 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:48.959 was introduced at the ginning of the year and moved 142 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.879 pretty quickly through the Senate, and then as I got 143 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:53.519 to the House, a lot of changes have been made, 144 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.800 so I still have not seen the most up to 145 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:59.560 date version of the bill, but I do know that 146 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:02.439 has moved moved in a pretty significantly positive direction in 147 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:04.199 terms of respecting the will of the voters, and I 148 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:06.360 think the goal of what myself and some of the 149 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.040 other folks working on this is we really want this 150 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:11.800 to be more of an implementation of issue too, because 151 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.399 there are a lot of language in the battle initiative 152 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:17.439 was kind of insufficient. It was a little bit vague. 153 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:19.959 It didn't give I think the proper guardrails to the 154 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.600 administrative folks at the Division of Cannabis Control to really 155 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:27.160 implement the legal cannabis market in a way that makes 156 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.240 sense and is pro business. So that's what I'm looking for. 157 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.360 I think it's making a lot of progress in that direction, 158 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:35.959 but ultimately we weren't entirely there. I think there are 159 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:38.439 definitely some folks that want to see things more restricted, 160 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:40.839 and I certainly understand where they're coming from, but that's 161 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:43.399 not what the people voted for. So I think our 162 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:45.240 job is to try to find the right balance of 163 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:48.920 making sure we're protecting the intent of what the voters 164 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:51.759 passed an issue too, while also making it a little 165 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:53.519 bit easier for those folks to do business, and also 166 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:55.879 addressing the hemp issue in a smart and reasonable way, 167 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.360 because I think that was another big sticking point for 168 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:00.360 myself and some other folks on the Republican side of 169 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.800 the legislature that we want to make sure that whatever 170 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:04.439 we do on these is the right thing to do 171 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.360 and not just passing something so we can say we 172 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:08.879 passed something and then end up just you know, and 173 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:12.160 ending up with a constitutional amendment that we can't change, 174 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:13.560 which is just going to waste a whole lot of 175 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:15.160 everyone's time and money. And I think we can do 176 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.199 this the right way, and so respect to all of 177 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:17.680 the voters. 178 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:21.319 Well, now, is there a division or like a distinction 179 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:24.600 being drawn between hemp and marijuana? Is that one of 180 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:26.879 the things that's being bandied about and argued over, because 181 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.279 you know, hemp, to me is is just an industrial product. 182 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:32.559 You can't get high on it. And I remember one 183 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.240 politician saying this self respecting dope d would even be 184 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:37.960 caught smoking hemp. I mean, it's an exercise and futility 185 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:40.320 to get high off of it. So but it has 186 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:42.919 great industrial You can make any literally anything out of it, 187 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.399 clothing and play plastics and make wood products out of it. 188 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.159 So there's a lot of industrial uses for it. I 189 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:51.840 mean that is there even a need to regulate it 190 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.240 just because it looks like marijuana? I mean, what's the 191 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.120 story on hemp relative to marijuana tech. 192 00:08:57.399 --> 00:08:59.879 So the issue there is so familiar with like the 193 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:03.799 Delta eight or the types of intoxicating THHD products which 194 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:08.759 are hemp derived. Sometimes in some cases they're synthesized. You know, 195 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.559 there are there are some fairly intoxicating products that are 196 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:14.279 very accessible to get right now in gas station's, convenience 197 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.039 stores and the like. 198 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:19.919 So they're they're concentrating the low level hemp it's like 199 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.679 less than three percent I suppose in hemp, and they're 200 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.279 taking that and concentrating into something that is well obviously 201 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.159 much more the capable of getting someone intoxicated. 202 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:33.759 Correct, So that under the Farm Bill passed several years 203 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:36.840 ago in DC, it actually legalized all these different hemp 204 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.039 products with the standard you know, you can't have more 205 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:43.000 total THHD than point zero three percent by dry weight. 206 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.960 You know, there are a lot of technicalities technicalities involved 207 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:49.679 in that. But the issue that we're seeing is there 208 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:53.200 are intoxicating hemp products that are readily readily available, but 209 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:57.759 under federal law, the recreational adult use cannabis products and 210 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.120 any of these intoxicating hemp drive products are two totally 211 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:05.200 different products, so these are federally legal, and I think 212 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:06.919 we all agree there are issues. We don't want kids 213 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:08.639 being able to walk into a gas station and buy 214 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.159 like a thhcvate, but I think some of the proposals 215 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.200 to address that we're also kind of an over correction 216 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:17.399 and when end up harming a lot of small businesses 217 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:19.039 that do want to play by the roles and accept 218 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:21.200 that there is a need for regulation and some quality 219 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.240 controls and to make sure the kids aren't getting these things. 220 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.720 But finding the right balance between addressing the safety issue 221 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.399 and also not putting a whole lot of people out 222 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.799 of business. That's that's another another area where it's easier 223 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:32.480 said than dons. 224 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:34.759 Well, I'll tell you what tex Sexlist pause if you 225 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.200 don't mind, will hold you over and bring you back 226 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.159 to talk a little bit more about what's being proposed 227 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.320 and why you know in some cases you're against it 228 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.440 or in favor of it. More with representative text Fisher, 229 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:45.039 we'll take a break care, but back in just a 230 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:46.159 few brief few minutes. 231 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:50.039 Hang in fifty five KRC. 232 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:54.279 Beauterbul company that provides quality roofing and repairs. Call seven 233 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:58.639 seven four ninety four ninety five one more time with 234 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.879 the Jena nine weather forecast. A mostly cloddy, partly clotty 235 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:04.720 day to day, isolated swarms most likely to the south 236 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:06.840 of the Ohio River from the city. Eighty six for 237 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.960 a high overnight lowis seventy but he partly cloudy and muggy. 238 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:14.000 Partly cloudy, muggy again Marrow, it's scattered afternoons showers eighty. 239 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:14.559 Eight for the high. 240 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:17.360 Overnight lois seventy two, again partly cloudy and muggy, and 241 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:21.159 on Wednesday, showers are possible. To remain humid. It'll be 242 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:22.879 a high of eighty eight seventy four. 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Chuck Ingram on fifty five KRC, the talk station. 253 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.679 Hey forty nine, come er E fifty fifty five KR 254 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:59.799 City talk station. Greg Thomas with represented a text fissure 255 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:02.000 here from the state of Ohio. Republican at a District 256 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.879 fifty nine with some ideas about protecting our rights to 257 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:10.399 access marijuana pursue into the twenty twenty three issue too. 258 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.919 Fifty seven percent of US voted to legalize marijuana. One 259 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:15.919 of the things that sounds like they're going back to 260 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.879 our hemp discussion, the idea that yeah, hemp is hemp, 261 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:20.360 and you can't get high on it. But they know 262 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.600 they back and behind the scenes they can process this 263 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.240 into something that is intoxicating, and it's being sold in 264 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:29.759 you know, places outside of licensed marijuana dispensaries. You know, 265 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.039 you got your state licensed you know shops, and then 266 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:35.360 you've got your grocery stores, your smoke shops and all that. 267 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:38.960 Isn't there an age limit already in place? Text fissure 268 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:42.240 that prevents young people from buying it, assuming that the 269 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:46.519 various shops that it's sold at are karting or otherwise 270 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:50.039 following the law, so not necessarily. 271 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:51.919 So that's the issue that we're dealing with here, And 272 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:54.519 is this is just it's sort of a wild last 273 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:57.519 right now. Yeah, And I think that's that's an area 274 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.799 of cause, an area of concern for pretty much everybody. 275 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:02.039 For us the aisle, the issue is, you know, are 276 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:04.519 we going to overregulate these products to the point where 277 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:06.080 you put a lot of people out of business? Because 278 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.440 of course, like any industry, there are bad actors in 279 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:09.840 this space, but there are also a lot of good 280 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:12.480 people that are following the law, that are invested a 281 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:15.000 lot of money just trying to make a living. And 282 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:17.080 I think whatever we need to do needs to try 283 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:20.519 to strike the appropriate balance of safety and also being 284 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:22.960 pro business and respecting the fact that if we were 285 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.759 to ban these products at the state level in Ohio 286 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:27.159 put these people in Ohio out of business. People just 287 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.000 go on the internet by the exact same stuff, and 288 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.279 we'd have no ability to control it, no ability to 289 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:33.879 test it, to regulate it. So it's you know, it's 290 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:35.840 the reality of you know, we may not like something, 291 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.519 or some folks may not like something, but if they 292 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.559 can get it, why don't we just accept that we 293 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:41.279 want to push them into a market. Kind of similar 294 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:45.679 to the conversation about legalizing marijuana. Is if people were getting, buying, smoking, 295 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.240 and jesting marijuana before it was legal, we all understand that. 296 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.120 But now that we have a legal market, I think 297 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:51.600 they have a lot of good people in that space 298 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:53.320 that are making sure these products are as safe as 299 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:55.600 they can be and have a lot of quality controls 300 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.080 and safety controls, And I think that's the appropriate balance 301 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.200 we need to try to find, is the reality if 302 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.759 people get these stuff this stuff on the internet. But 303 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:05.759 whatever we do, we should also encourage people to buy 304 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:08.240 Ohio based products and sport ohio hemp farmers. 305 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.799 Yeah, and if there's a reason to buy an Ohio 306 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:13.240 based product, for example, it's been tests that it doesn't 307 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:15.879 have any you know, funguses or things growing in it 308 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.240 and it is safe. I guess maybe part of this 309 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:21.200 conversation about this delta eight which is derived from this 310 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:24.639 low level THCHC hemp, is is it the same thing 311 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.480 as marijuana in terms of the dangers or harm it 312 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.279 might present. Is that a separate discussion that's going on. 313 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:32.000 Is it sort of a horse of a different color 314 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:35.159 as compared to marijuana and the intoxicating THHC marijuana. 315 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:38.799 Yeah, I think so. And I think the big issue 316 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:42.080 we have is quality control. And I think that there's 317 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.200 some folks in the marijuana industry, and I think their 318 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:46.559 right to believe this is that there are some of 319 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.440 these retailers and not necessarily the faults of the retailers. 320 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:52.480 So some of these producers that are selling these products 321 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.759 labeled as Delta eight and they're just not there's probably 322 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:59.840 access marijuana from another state that they process and pass 323 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:02.399 off because they can sell it to a much larger 324 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.919 market outside of dispensaries. So I think number one something 325 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:07.440 that we need to do is make sure that whatever 326 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.200 testing regime we include for these HEAP products is to 327 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:12.720 be able to ensure that these are in fact he 328 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:17.120 derived THHC products and not marijuana prepackaged or a different label. 329 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:19.200 So that's one of the things that I've been pushing for. 330 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:22.200 I don't think there's a whole lot of opposition of that. 331 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:23.840 It's just a matter of, you know, what does the 332 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.559 retail regime look like, and how burdenson is this regular 333 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:28.399 regime going to be? And you know, we still want 334 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.360 to make sure that we're allowing these people to stay 335 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.200 in business with just you know, the common sense guardrails 336 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.279 we all agree on. Kids shouldn't be able to buy it, 337 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:37.320 you know, maybe you shouldn't be able to go into 338 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:39.360 a gas station and buy a pre roll joint or something, 339 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:42.759 and things like that. Maybe that's the starting point and 340 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:44.600 the common ground that we all have. But there's a 341 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:46.720 lot more to it, and session a tricky issue. 342 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:49.480 So much and so much more as being learned each 343 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:52.559 and every day about marijuana it's impact on society. Is 344 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:55.840 it really less harmful than alcohol? Because every time we 345 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:58.279 have a discussion like this text Fisher, I just keep 346 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.120 thinking of alcohol. Hell, you can go literally anywhere and 347 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:03.559 not literally, but there's beer is for sale, wine is 348 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:05.399 for sale all over the place. They do it in 349 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:07.559 convenience stores, they do it in you know, liquor stores. 350 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:10.559 It's like, well, if you can manage, that's why is 351 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:13.840 this so extra complicated? Doesn't something it should be? I 352 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:15.799 got a real quick for part company day tex fissure. 353 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.519 The tax revenue was specifically defined and broken up to 354 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:24.440 four different categories where the money goes right, Social Equity Fund, 355 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:29.000 you know, to help people disproportionately impacted by marijuana laws, 356 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.639 to host cities that have dispensaries, the state's Mental and 357 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:35.720 Addiction Service Department, and three percent goes to the state's 358 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.919 Cannabis Control Department. Is there an effort to change that 359 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.200 where the tax dollars the generated dollars go or is 360 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:44.200 that going to stay the way it is in the law. 361 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:48.320 So the tax dollar the tax dollar provisions. That was 362 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.399 another point of contention. I think the original bill as 363 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:55.879 introduced in the Senate, would have removed any any share 364 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.960 for local governments to the local communities that host these 365 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.039 dispensary is really remove their stake in their tax revenue. 366 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:05.519 So while the rest of the categories this did get 367 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:09.400 resolved in the budget, we were thankfully able to retain 368 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.240 that thirty six percent for the host communities in perpetuity 369 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:15.200 in the operating budget, which was a big win for 370 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:18.000 I think a lot of us in the House that 371 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:20.279 really felt strongly that we shouldn't be taking these dollars 372 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.799 away from these local communities, and a lot of time 373 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:24.920 and a lot of senses, these folks agreed to have 374 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:26.839 the dispensaries on the sole condition of, well, we're going 375 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:28.240 to get revenue and that's going to be enough for 376 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:30.119 us to put the squad car or you know, another 377 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:34.279 hire another firefighter, real important stuff. But we were able 378 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:36.839 to preserve that the rest of the money moving forward 379 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.920 will be just directed in the states general revenue find 380 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:41.119 but the local dollars. That was a big point of contention, 381 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:42.799 and that was another thing that I was fighting for 382 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:44.640 and really grateful a lot of the other folks in 383 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:46.880 the house. We're able to get that done for us. 384 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:50.039 State represented tex Fissure. That makes perfect sense. The reason 385 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.119 we have a dispensary in our neighborhood is because we 386 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:54.519 were promised thirty six percent of the revenue. So yes, 387 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:57.279 appreciate you moving to protect that one. The text has 388 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:59.160 been it's been great having on the show, and to 389 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:01.160 the extent you make any further progress or have more 390 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:03.240 developments on this, you have an welcome spot here on 391 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.160 the fifty five KRC Morning Show. So keep up the 392 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:06.920 great work. Tax Fisher. It's been good having you on 393 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:07.279 the show. 394 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:09.400 I really appreciate it. 395 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:11.559 Thank you, Thank you, sir. Take fifty six fifty five 396 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:14.279 Krcity talk Station Smith Event. When you can't listen live, 397 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:16.839 go to fifty five krs dot com to the podcast. 398 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:19.799 We talked with Brian James Money Monday, the tariffs and 399 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:23.000 the inflation and what Jerome Powell gonna do. He's in 400 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.359 a bit of an undrum's my conversation there with Tex Fisher. 401 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:29.000