Today, state Senator Kent Smith (D-Euclid) issued the following statement after the Ohio Senate voted to accept conference committee changes to Senate Bill 56, which significantly changes the state's adult-use cannabis program and directly undermines the will of Ohio voters, who established Ohio's recreational marijuana industry by passing State Issue 2 in 2023. 

Today, state Senator Kent Smith (D-Euclid) praised the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) for issuing two major enforcement orders totaling $250.7 million in restitution and civil forfeitures against FirstEnergy's Ohio utilities-following years of investigations tied to the House Bill 6 corruption scandal.