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Mary Jane’s Guide: CannaNews You Can Use – December 2021

Courage – Year in review – Statute to SoS – MMCP expansion – Give!


Selected bites of fresh cannabis news sliced from the headlines, with a legislative flavor and sweet Ohio twist. Sources are linked.


Courage…

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Woman talking into mic

9/11 musical gives zoo officials a chance to change the topic

On Sunday, Dec. 5, dozens of theater lovers gathered at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s Africa Event Center to hear about the strange connection between the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a remote Canadian town and the zoo itself. In a related activity…

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Protestor being maced

Man in the screenshot opens up about summer of 2020 and leaving Columbus

It is arguably the most significant image from Columbus in the year 2020, and that’s saying a lot. It’s not an actual photo, but a screen shot of a video, one which went viral.


The man throwing up his arms (“Don’t shoot!”) is 31-year-old…

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Harvey J Graff

Busting Myths: Columbus searches for its Downtown with historical, urbanist, and developers’ blinders

Quietly, as usual, the undemocratic apparatuses of the City of Columbus make their moves.


On Friday, Dec. 10, the Columbus Dispatch briefly reported “Massive hanging sculpture proposed for Downtown.”


The next day, Dispatch reporter…

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