personal and medical use of marijuana for those over 21 years old. if the amendment passes, and recent polls in the state are split downthe middle, issue 3 would make ohio the largest state to fully legalize marijuana, the first state to do so in the midwest, and the first to approve making marijuana legal for personal use without first legalizing medical marijuana. the deep-pocketed backers of the amendment are pulling out all the stops to get it over the finish line, including deploying this guy, buddie, a pro-legalization mascot with a green marijuana bud for a head and the sort of washboard abs you don t normally associated with smoking pot. he s been on a tour of ohio colleges, designed to drum up support. if buddie seems like the brainchild of a modern corporate marketing campaign, that s because the people who deployed him are not exactly hippies. the amendment was bankrolled by a group of wealthy investors spending nearly $25 million to put it on the ballot and sell it to voter