In a few days, the voters of Ohio will decide whether to let a cartel of well-heeled investors control legal marijuana cultivation in perpetuity, with low taxes and high profits locked in forever at public expense.

I write about the Ohio initiative at The Week, noting that if it passes, old line legalization organizations and individual grassroots activists will become nearly irrelevant for the future of legalized pot. Instead legalized marijuana will become a corporate industry dominated by 1 percenters, very much on the model of the tobacco industry.