Posted on 10/01/2015 10:05:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Eager night owls looking to score some of the first recreational pot in Oregon bought up baggies of bud at shops that opened early Thursday, some taking advantage of door-buster deals.
Some of the more than 250 dispensaries that already offer medical marijuana welcomed lines of enthusiasts soon after midnight — just moments after it became legal to sell to anyone who is at least 21. There were no reports of problems from early sales, although most stores planned to open at a more reasonable hour.
At Portland's Shango Premium Cannabis, co-founder Shane McKee said the first sale to an excited customer came about a minute after midnight, with many others waiting. He called the moment significant....
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Ping!
Bless their hearts. They appear to believe that nobody ever drove into Washington to buy legal pot even if transporting it into Oregon was illegal.
How’s the “grass tax” windfall to the govt looking in Colorado?
That will be the deciding factor whether or not legal grass is the next casino gambling.
Here in Indiana the state made a lot of dough jumping into the casino game. Now that adjoining states legalized it, revenues have fallen a lot.
Was riding bike home through the ‘hood last night.
Every 3rd block reeked of refer.
Tacoma, Washington State: Where everyone is on EBT and THC.
and SOB
Pot is the #4 cash crop in Oregon:
http://norml.org/legal/item/oregon-top-10-cash-crops
I totally believe it. In Southern Oregon it is not only the #1 cash crop, it is the #1 industry by far.
I’ve never even smelled marijuana in all my time in Texas. Does that mean there isn’t any here? Of course not.
I used to ride my moped thru our neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon and enjoy the smell of a dozen or so barbecues.
Marijuana haters are enemies of freedom. They should stick to their booze and shut their pieholes.
That will be the deciding factor whether or not legal grass is the next casino gambling.
Plus, the money saved at the state and local levels. Less people in court. Less people in jail. Law enforcement can divert funding to other (actual) problems.
And, of course, the cost of prohibition to the Bill of Rights (searches, frisks, no-knock raids, surveillance, etc)
Same thing in the hoods in Jersey, NYC and Long Island. But it is illegal here and we are as far as can be from any legal state
You CAN’T outlaw a plant that a child can grow. ALL you can do is determine who gets to grow/sell it- local farmers selling high quality product through legal regulated stores OR cartel guerrilla growers selling contaminated moldy plants to your kids through street dealers.
The choice is obvious but plenty of people would lose huge sums of money if legalized...
At least Prohibition was Constitutional; Social Security, ‘gun control’ and the War on Drugs?? No so much....yet, even here, you here the cheerleaders
Yeah, notice the “Farewell to the 18th Amendment” sign? How quaint.
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