COLUMBUS – Whether city officials across Ohio perceived it as a goose that would lay golden eggs or simply another bucket from which to pull funds, they’ve been counting on marijuana tax revenues that haven’t yet arrived.

Ohio voters agreed to legal language in 2023 that the governor signed into the state budget this July outlining marijuana tax revenue for communities with dispensaries — but the money is still tied up at the state level.

Issue 2, the initiated statute that voters passed in November 2023, included language indicating “host communities” would receive 36% of the adult-use excise tax that customers pay at dispensaries in their communities.

However, Kent Scarrett, executive director of the nonprofit Ohio Municipal League said, “there’s no appropriation or mechanism to d

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