>Guaranteeing that black market pot will be big business in Michigan.
It’s the same people either way; your bio says Colorado so you ought to know what sort of groups run those businesses and the likelihood that a normal sort of person would be able to start up a ‘farm’ and a business without ‘difficulties.’
Secondly the stuff is dirt cheap; I’m not a smoker but I can read billboards, and based on that the legalization is somewhere like an eight-fold deflation (pun not intended) compared to before. I don’t think this vice tax will drive the business underground.
Lastly like in CO with it being so cheap the usage is endemic. I can’t drive in a city without smelling it from the car next or ahead — through their and my closed windows. So many people drive high that “Student Driver” stickers are everywhere on cars that clearly do NOT have a 16-year-old anywhere near them. At least they’re informing the normal people that there’s *a* reason the driver is slow AF and driving like a wobbly 90-year-old.
I don’t care much whether people smoke - if they’re non-hostile it’s not my business and if they’re criminals it makes them slow and uncoordinated and stupider than usual. However *****mer basically got elected on the woo-stoner vote and also FUBARed the budget assuming endless Brandon-bux of printed money, so rather than give the Ds another easy layup into campaign season or tax the snot out of everyone, the MiGOP elected this path. Could be worse.
I’ve lived almost all my life in CO but I don’t know diddly about the marijuana biz and I don’t go to cities so I’m not familiar with the smell of pot everywhere either.
I do know that black market pot is still going strong here and, unlike CA, CO didn’t tax the crap out of it. In CA the legal pot shops are failing because of taxes and regulations and NOCA still has a thriving illegal grow biz going on.
I do care when people drive “high” cause they are killing people and it is not reported due to it being legal in those states.