One thing about weed... There are a LOT of “closet” users. Many many more than you might think. In fact there may be quite a few in your own circle but they haven’t come out yet. It actually might be accurate rather than shenanigans.
I watched this very same thing happen to a very small town in Ca. They declared it illegal in city limits, They even had the police waiting outside the dispensaries arresting people as fast as they could. They tried to deny business licenses, Etc.
In the end the city lost everyone of these cases and had to cough up for lost revenue, profits, and a whole slew of personal civil violations like false arrest, harassment, defamation of character, Etc. It literally completely broke the city.
Unfortunately there is no longer anywhere to hide from it. It has now snowballed and is going to be part of our society and culture whether we like it or not. All we can do now to protect our Children and Grandchildren is acknowledge the reality of this and educate them the best we can.
And here is the worst part... once they realize the increased tax revenue, all the hollering in the world won’t stop them from flipping to supporting it. That little town turned into a “grow” town in the end and there are warehouses growing it everywhere.
Mine is a farming community, maybe they should have just zoned it out. They block everything else.
“One thing about weed... There are a LOT of “closet” users.”
Yep! Soccer moms, stay-at-home parents, grandparents, doctors, surgeons, lawyers, teachers, psychologists, engineers, scientists, financial advisers, restaurateurs, burger flippers, waitresses, pole dancers(?)...And you can’t really tell if they’re under the influence or not. They’re well enough acclimated to the effects that for them it’s easy enough to control to the extent that nobody notices and nothing bad ever happens just because they ingested an insignificant amount of THC.
"Going to be"? It has been for decades.