COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Gov. Mike DeWine indicated on Thursday that he intends to sign Senate Bill 56 after the sweeping legislation changing Ohio’s recreational marijuana and intoxicating hemp regulations was voted out of the Ohio Senate earlier this week.

Speaking to reporters at the Ohio Governor’s Residence, the Greene County Republican was noncommittal about whether he planned to line-item veto any parts of the legislation, but said that the most important part of SB 56, in his mind, are the intoxicating hemp regulations that he has long advocated for.

“The most important part of the bill, obviously, is that for the first time, perhaps some [hemp] regulation,” DeWine said. “It should no longer be the wild, wild West.”

After pushing for restrictions on the products for nearly two years, D

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