CLEVELAND — Officers from Northeast Ohio said legalizing recreational marijuana would be bad for the state. Now, one year after adult-use cannabis sales began in Ohio, we’ll show you what’s happening with safety on our roads.

Matt Oakes’ addiction started with marijuana when he was 11 years old. “You know, we’d be at a school dance and that was the thing to have if you wanted friends,” said Oakes.

MATT: 'CHASING THIS LEVEL OF DOPAMINE'

As he got older, he did heavier drugs like cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. “I am chasing this level of dopamine that I started with smoking marijuana,” he described. He admits to, at times back then, driving high on THC. “It didn’t seem like it was a problem,” said Oakes. “Looking back now, a lot of the choices that I made, obviously, were problems.”

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