[the OlLine Rebel]

I am pissed because it’s legal in MD, and we have 2 of these stupid “dispensaries” within 2 mi on the major strip near our home. My mother sees them and asks what they are, which I have to quell in front of our 10yo son. Still too young to hear about it, I think.

Damn hippies. Sick of them getting their way in everything.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I recently drove into Maryland from West Virginia. The very first thing that greeted me as I crossed the state line was a HUGE neon sign atop a pot dispensary.

[VanDeKoik]

Well what do you say when they see a liquor store, cigarette shop, or a payday loan shack?

[BlackbirdSST]

My mother sees them and asks what they are, which I have to quell in front of our 10yo son.

Really? What is your reaction as you drive by the dozens and dozens of liquor stores? The beer/wine aisle in the supermarket?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I am pissed because it’s legal in MD, and we have 2 of these stupid “dispensaries” within 2 mi on the major strip near our home. My mother sees them and asks what they are, which I have to quell in front of our 10yo son. Still too young to hear about it, I think.

Two years ago I traveled to Washington State. I partake, and so naturally I was interested in checking out the legal shops.

I came away very unimpressed with the ones I saw; they ranged from tawdry to outright sketchy. I eventually visited one, and while its employees were nice and informative and not off-putting, there was still that element of sketchiness about the whole transaction.

If anything, the pot shops I saw in Washington had the same essence as the ol' porno shops we used to have up here in southern New Hampshire in the strip malls along route 28. Sketch City.

Pot shops don't have to be like this. In Amsterdam, the best ones are just "clean, well-lighted" places that just happen to sell grass, along with coffee and Heineken.

[BipolarBob]

I hope there aren’t any liquor stores in your fine city. That would be a conundrum.

[jdsteel]

Medicinal is legal in PA, and I have a card. I use a tincture (eye dropper) of a combination of CBD and THC. It helps considerably for my ostheo arthritis, and with only a little trial and error found a dosage that gives pain relief without any feeling of being high. Like anything else, it can be good or bad depending on usage and the person. I really don’t enjoy the feeling of a THC buzz. A drink or two is far preferable for that as far as I am concerned.

[Albion Wilde]

But isn’t it only medical maryjane that is legal in Maryland? Not over-the-counter for any adult like in Colorado or Canada?