Posted on 11/30/2019 6:29:27 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When the most popular medical marijuana dispensary in Chicago begins selling recreational pot on New Year’s Day, it will operate like a busy restaurant. Dispensary 33 plans to take names from those in line and page customers by phone when they can get in.
The North Side cannabis shop will take that unusual step due to the huge crowds expected when weed sales become legal under state law at 6 a.m. Jan. 1, 2020. The celebration will be similar to the unofficial pot holiday of April 20, or 4/20, when a Dispensary 33 street fest and special deals this year drew 800 medical marijuana customers, marketing manager Abigail Watkins said. “It’ll be like 4/20 every day,” she said.
Statewide, that pent-up demand is expected to hit like rush-hour traffic — too much for the system to handle at once. With marijuana legalization in Illinois a month away, the clock is still ticking on a host of changes that need to be made to accommodate that momentous shift. Growers have expanded, dispensaries have remodeled and lawmakers have fine-tuned the law.
Weed activists and opponents alike are wondering if the state and industry will pull everything together in time for a smooth rollout. Potentially, all 55 existing medical dispensaries would be eligible to open retail stores on their current sites as well as at second sites. But regulators have licensed only 29 stores so far — to serve an estimated 1 million pot users — so officials expect long lines and sold-out products.
The tight supply means that weed is likely to be relatively expensive, industry trackers predict. Illinois already has some of the highest-priced medical cannabis in the country, averaging around $18 a gram and $300 an ounce, according to marijuanarates.com.
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I’ve heard of the skyrocketing auto accident rate in Colorado. No thanks to full legalization. Just legalize it for medical purposes, and that’s it.
(As far as federal law goes, I’m fine with Pete Boot-A-Geeg’s idea of decriminalizing the stuff at the federal level, since the Constitution doesn’t authorize the federal government to regulate pot. Let the states regulate it.)
now we have the gays and trangenders and pot...
our young men and women folk are becoming less able day by day..some of them don't even know how to find a spouse let alone BREED.....
but yeah, lets get even more mellower for our betters to kill us off....
And East Lansing.
Meanwhile the Chinese are thinking, "Remember those Opium Dens you foisted on us? Revenge is a dish best served cold!"
I smoke hemp and weed for joint pain. The hemp cancels out the “high”. It’s been successful so far. I thought my knee pain (torn MCL) would just be part of life from here on but maybe not.
If you OD on THC like with a weed edible, they give you CBD(hemp) to temper the buzz.
America is addicted to anxiety and depression drugs
That would fall under medicinal use. I’m fine with that.
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