TOLEDO, Ohio — It's day one of legal cannabis in the Buckeye State and that comes with a whole new set of rules.
For dispensaries like RISE Dispensary in west Toledo, that means following the state's mandates for sale, such as making sure you're of legal age the moment you step through their doors and requiring you to show a state-issued ID demonstrating you're 21 or older.
From there, you have access to their full supply of flower, edibles and other ways of consuming cannabis, but there are limits to how much you can buy.
"The Ohio state limits are you can buy a 10-day supply, which is one ounce of flower or 10, 100-milligram edibles, so 1000 milligrams on the edibles side or an ounce of flower," Ben Kolver, the CEO and founder of RISE Dispensary said.
One ounce is just shy of half of what you're allowed to possess in total. According to Ohio's Division of Cannabis Control, an adult 21 or older is allowed to legally own up to 2.5 ounces, or 70 grams of weed, and an individual can grow up to six plants with a max of 12 per household.
But even with possession now legal, there's still a host of ways to get in trouble if you use it the wrong way.
"You can't bring the marijuana across state lines, that's a federal law," Wood County Sheriff Mark Wasylyshyn said. "So they can't go to Michigan and buy it and bring it here. You can't sell marijuana unless you're licensed to sell marijuana."
Both could land you felony distribution charges, meaning even if you grow it yourself, you can't sell it and you have to give it away.
And there are still restrictions on when and where you can smoke it.
"You're not gonna be allowed to vape in public, employers can still restrict marijuana in their system," Wasylyshyn said. "For instance, I'm sure most police chiefs and sheriffs like I am will not allow marijuana in their employees systems."
And just like alcohol, driving under the influence of cannabis is a crime. But unlike alcohol, marijuana can last in people's systems for days or sometimes weeks and requires a different kind of enforcement.
"Regardless of the level of marijuana in the system, we're going to have to articulate what that person was doing that's an indicator they were under the influence, and have that test back that up," Wasylshyn said.
And perhaps most importantly for our constitutional carry state, current federal law prohibits people who use marijuana from receiving, possessing, or purchasing a firearm.
"If you pull someone over and they're smoking and they have a gun, they're going to be in violation of federal law," Wasylshyn said.
But Sheriff Wasylshyn said if marijuana is changed from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 3 drug as it's currently being pushed for in the federal government, some of these laws could be subject to change.