(Cincinnati, Oh.)--There could be marijuana growing and processing locations around the city of Cincinnati in the years ahead.
On Tuesday, Cincinnati City Council's Law and Public Safety Committee approved a measure that would let medical marijuana be grown in certain parts of the city. The committee approved the measure allowing it from a zoning perspective, mainly in areas zoned for manufacturing.
The full city council will take up the issue Wednesday.
Although Ohio passed a law legalizing medical marijuana, it is up to communities to decide if they want it cultivated locally. Evendale, Montgomery, and Madeira have banned the medical marijuana businesses, other communities have moratoriums in place.
The state will officially have the final say on where the cultivation sites are and will also be responsible for providing written rules on marijuana dispensaries and the retail outlets that sell the product.
Medicinal marijuana will not go on sale until September, 2018 and it is only available to patients suffering certain medical conditions.
Those conditions include:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS/HIV)Alzheimer’s diseaseAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
CancerChronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE, the degenerative disease most commonly found in football players and other athletes in contact sports)
Crohn’s disease
Epilepsy or another seizure disorder
Fibromyalgia
Glaucomah
Hepatitis C
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Pain (either chronic and severe pain or intractable pain)
Parkinson’s Disease
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Sickle Cell Anemia
Spinal Cord Disease or Injury
Tourette’s Syndrome
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Ulcerative Colitis
Ohio was the 25th state in the U.S. to legalize a comprehensive medical cannabis program in 2016.