HEY - guess what?

Oh,...Oh!

Pot makes me wanna do stuff.

Yeah, right. We'll see you next week. Maybe.

Congrats ... as of Oct 6, it's now legal for same sex marriages in my state and 31 other states. Doesn't impact me directly, but I'm happy for those that it does.

Pot will catch up eventually. Again, doesn't impact me either way, but glad for those that it does.

I'm surprised it's not legal in more places. I would have guessed government would be licking their chops on taxing it.

Is it restricted to - basically - where you live?
In Colorado, landlords and homeowners associations can say no.
Not in public places.
I could allow it at my hotel. Hotels can allow smoking in up to 20% of their rooms.
Some hotels are catering to the marijuana crowd.

Dan

Some folks in Washington state regret voting it in. I hear weed costs twice as much (with all the state added taxes) as it used to cost when it wasn't legal. Not only that, there's not nearly enough legal weed to meet the demand, even with the high price. It's still available on the black market but now the penalties for growing and distribution are really stiff. No, no no! Mustn't be competing with the state.

Pot still NOT LEGAL federally wise !!

You get a Federal Marshall walking down your sidewalk in Eugene and he smells Pot coming up out your bedroom window by Law he has every right to handcuff you and take you to jail

What a crazy World we live in.

I have a very heightened sense of pizza without any help.

It's been way more than five minutes, should we send out a search party?

As far as I know here in Colorado, the Feds don't do much about recreational use
or private medical use.

I don't have enough knowledge/information about why the medical marijuana would
have Federal guidelines.

I do know a female who was in the retail/medical pot business until recently. She did
not like it because she felt like technically a criminal in the eyes of the Feds and
customers thought nothing of that. So, she worked for minimum wage and not enough
tips. I guess their set up encouraged tipping because it is weird legal ground.

She also did not like the store owners. Kind of a rough element. She felt they probably had
criminal backgrounds - which they're not supposed to have to run a legit center.

Also, some back door dealings went on. And, it was an all cash business because very
few - if any banks - allow pot businesses to do banking because of the Federal laws
concerning marijuana. One large Colorado bank even closed out pot store owners
personal bank accounts because they feared it might be pot money.

Finally, she did not feel comfortable with all the cash laying around and no security at the stores
she worked in

I don't use or buy the stuff, so I have no idea how street prices have been impacted by legality.
I'm pretty sure the pricing is different for medical v recreational marijuana.

There is a growing - te he - grow your own medical marijuana faction. One of the things they stress is
purity. Apparently, because of the humidity in large grow rooms, there is a problem with some kind
of tiny spider or insect that can get ingested and make people sick. A bronchitis kind of thing, I guess.

Dan

PS - I still get a kick out of this one customer interaction. He was a 70ish, very conservative looking Texan.
His truck said Justice of the Peace on the side. In the morning, at check out, he surprised me by asking if I wanted to buy his cookie. He wanted $20 for it. It was about 5" diameter and had about 5 doses in it. He went on
to tell me that because it was legal, he wanted to try it for the first time and all it did was make him dizzy.


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Feds tried to enforce federal law over and above states. They were basically kicked to the curb in WA - told they don't take precedence over state's rights.

As far as price - I've not heard anyone complaining at all out here. WA has picked up some taxes for a few things they've needed taxes for and don't have to rely on fed money now, which gives them even more independence.

Also - once pot is legalized, hemp can be grown - and think of the industries and ecological benefit we'll get from hemp!

I'm not sure how I feel about it being legal in some states, but if it's going to be legal, they need to allow people to grow their own pot, not a select few businesses capitalizing on everyone's weed habit. Makes you wonder why it became legal in the first place.

Let everyone grow their own pot, or nobody be allowed to grow it!!!

I don't think it's right to allow people to smoke pot, but arrest them for growing their own. I don't smoke pot, but I don't like the idea of only allowing a select few to profit from it.

Wow. Can it be sold legally or just grown for personal use? If I came to visit where would I get it?

Andrew

For those in those states what are the laws around online sales?

maybe 10 minutes?
lol, and hopefully Canada won't be too far behind that is if we can get rid of Herr Harper

Tommy Chong of, Cheech and Chong. went to jail for selling bongs. Sort of looks like he took the fall for his son. Selling paraphernalia is illegal. Feds did it to curb the illegal drug trade. Tommy Chong's cellmate was Jordan Belfort - the Wolf of Wall Street.

Tommy Chong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jordan Belfort Went To Jail With Chong - Business Insider

Rondo - found your answer.

Pot, where it is legal sells for between $12 and $22 a gram. In CO it's only around $12 per gram which is approximately $340 an ounce - nearly half of what it is in WA.

Here's a link that has all the info - including a map of where it's illegal (still 21 states), decriminalized, medical, and just legal (4 states now and DC, someone above was correct - it's legal in Alaska, I believe that's since yesterday, too, but not sure). Other info you can get at the link is how much it costs and where you can get it, etc.

State of the Leaf - Leafly

Thanks HeySal. That's a cool website.

Andrew

I don't know how it's going in the recreational states, but I've never heard of the feds targeting or picking up individuals who are legal medical users in California. Probably way too politically unpopular. Every once in a blue they come in and try to shut down an individual dispensary or farm for one reason or another but they've largely been hands-off medical for years now.