Money still doesn't buy elections -- just ask Ohio's pot plotters

By Timothy P. Carney, Timothy P. Carney

Published December 20, 2015

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A handful of investors and political operatives in Ohio blew more than $15 million on an insane ploy to amend the state's constitution to create a marijuana monopoly for themselves.

The pot hustlers outspent the anti-marijuana group by a 40-to-1 margin according to the latest campaign finance filings available, and they lost at the ballot box last week almost 2-to-1.

What were they thinking?