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So what your saying is that I can sit on my front porch in Ohio doing bong hits and if a cop sees me he has no legal authority to come and arrest me? There is no way that is true. Find me one case where a cop saw someone doing drugs in the open, on their land where the cop arrested them and they were released because of "lack of authority".

In answer to this question I am saying that in Ohio a city policeman, county sheriff's deputy, and I guess a town constable (if Ohio still has constables) could indeed arrest you if they seen you involved in the activity mentioned above. But a Trooper of the Ohio State HIGHWAY Patrol could not arrest you on your front porch for such activity unless he or she followed you to your front porch after seeing you do it on PUBLIC property. He or she could call the local law enforcement to come and arrest you, but the Ohio State HIGHWAY Patrol are not chartered with any jurisdiction on private property. Only state roadways and state property.

Other states such as Michigan, Kentucky and New York have State Police with the same jurisdictions as local police.

Initiative #4 would close this loophole in Ohio for only drug and alcohol investigations and arrests.

Nustart23, you said:

In answer to this question I am saying that in Ohio a city policeman, county sheriff's deputy, and I guess a town constable (if Ohio still has constables) could indeed arrest you if they seen you involved in the activity mentioned above. But a Trooper of the Ohio State HIGHWAY Patrol could not arrest you on your front porch for such activity unless he or she followed you to your front porch after seeing you do it on PUBLIC property. He or she could call the local law enforcement to come and arrest you, but the Ohio State HIGHWAY Patrol are not chartered with any jurisdiction on private property. Only state roadways and state property.

Other states such as Michigan, Kentucky and New York have State Police with the same jurisdictions as local police.

Initiative #4 would close this loophole in Ohio for only drug and alcohol investigations and arrests.

In answer to this I am saying, I don't want the Ohio State Highway Patrol to become Ohio State Police. Hell, they act like they're state police already. You're wrong when you say they can't come on private property to harrass and arrest (something that they've become good at). All they have to do is lie and say they chased you onto private property and they're in like flynn.

Phantom Lord, you're A OK in my book. I don't want a totalitarian police state in Ohio. We have one but we don't need one.

Nustart, you're a puny cop suckass as far as I'm concerned.

I SAY, LOWER THE DRINKING AGE TO 18,
RAISE THE BAC BACK TO 0.15%,
OPEN THE LIQUOR STORES ON SUNDAYS,
TO HELL WITH THE OHIO STATE PATROL,
AND AS FAR AS TAKING MY LICENSE FOR BEING DRUNK ON MY OWN PROPERTY, F--- YOU ORDI, F--- YOU NUSTART, AND F--- ANYBODY ELSE THAT WANTS TO F--- WITH MY RIGHTS!!!

(Oh, and by the way, to really get "real drunks" off the highways, just a note to all the law enforcement agencies in Ohio and the nation. Get off your asses, get out of the coffee shops, quit eating donuts and start looking for "DRUNK DRIVERS" that are a danger to us all. Not just someone who may or not be drinking, or thinking about drinking or whatever. STOP BEING CHICKENSHITS!)