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In Bloomington’s Exclusive Smoke and Vape, shoppers can find all sorts of marijuana accessories and legal alternatives. But no marijuana.
Cannabis remains fully illegal in Indiana.
Ohioans voted last week to make recreational marijuana legal in their state. Challenges lay ahead in the Ohio statehouse, but if the referendum becomes law Indiana will be surrounded on three sides by recreational marijuana states.
Some Hoosiers like Charles Slaten, an employee here at Smoke and Vape, have been going out of state to smoke.
“I’ve gone to Denver, Colorado, to purchase it before even Illinois was legal,” he said.
Slaten said he’s used marijuana to manage chronic pain and PTSD. He watched the Ohio vote closely.
“I saw them legalize it. I read the report,” Slaten said. “I’m like, Indiana is way behind all the other states.”
Like Hoosiers, Ohioans have been pouring money into dispensaries across state lines. Ohio attorney Tom Haren worked with the coalition that pushed for the referendum so they wouldn’t have to.
“Ohioans had seen over the last 10 years that regulated markets work,” Haren said. “They’ve been to Michigan, they’ve been to Illinois.”
States have been moving fast to create legal markets. This year alone, Delaware and Minnesota legalized marijuana, and Kentucky started allowing medical use. Indiana did not.
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