An extraordinary accounting of Ohio’s recent marijuana reform history

I have said to my students at various times that a book or two or three or four could and should be written about the history of marijuana reform in the great state of Ohio.  This weekend I discovered that Angela Bacca, a freelance journalist, has provided nearly book-length treatment of some of the recent political stories of reform in the state via a four-part series of Huffington Post article.

The subtitle of each part of the series is “Inside Ohio’s Corrupt Medical Marijuana Rollout,” and this reporting of recent Ohio history seems especially eager to play up the theme of greed.  But that reporting choice might well be justified, and the tales told in these articles involve more intricate and comprehensive reporting than I have seen anywhere else:

• Part 1: The Grassroots Goes Down

• Part 2: ResponsibleOhio Storms the Ballot

• Part 3: Changing Marijuana Policy, One State at a Time

• Part 4: As Goes Ohio, So Goes the Nation