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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Older what's the matter...a Five Vegas cigar..and a beer now and again.
That is a wonderful response. Did the article answer our questions..or didn’t it? I gave it a good skim. If found nothing new in it.
What about those who don't behave responsibly? They are the ones that concern me.
What about those who don't behave responsibly? They are the ones that concern me.
They either were already using before legalization, or had already chosen alternative modes of irresponsibility.
It’s your body, your health, your brain cells.
Do what you will, consequences will come eventually.
Just wait until we get socialized medicine, and you'll get the privilege of paying for their medical bills.
I just want their hands kept out of my pockets.
Right you are!
He can pretend he’s a damn conservative all day long while whistling past the graveyard.
We’re already paying for it right now.
So, in your opinion, there will be no new users upon legalization? Or any new users will only be "responsible" folks who won't become habituated and zone out?
That will be an interesting phenomenon to observe.
As I said: Those who before legalization were responsible enough to not use because it was illegal, will after legalization remain responsible enough to not toke themselves into befuddled unemployability.
Scroll to the pics at "Weed Costs How Much?"
All that and member of the class of ‘98 to boot. I can just imagine how many times you may have been called druggie and pot head by the anti pot brigade on the drug threads of yore. Never did like those tactics and I don’t use. If you want to debate an issue, make your point and leave out the name calling childish stuff.
>> I know a guy ...
Not everyone is blessed with existential self awareness...
If you are claiming I was name calling, please provide proof. That is not my style.
Thanks!
I was claiming you were the victim of name calling. So, tell me please, how you can misconstrue my original statement quoted again, “I can just imagine how many times you may have been called druggie and pot head by the anti pot brigade on the drug threads of yore.”?
My apologies for misunderstanding your post.
Actually I don’t usually post in these threads.
So I haven’t endured a lot of name calling.
I tired of seeing Freepers stereotype pot users and wanted to show that pot users aren’t all the same.
It’s a shame to see conservatives vs conservatives because of pot. It’s silly.
Because Illinois' politics are solidly rooted in corruption you can expect some undesirable and unbelievable events to soon follow.
This will also affect Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin in a way that was never imagined.
Like with Kookiefornia, there will still be a thriving underground market, with their wares being slightly less costly than the legal stuff, when taxes are figured in.
As for my views, as long as the libertarians are chiming in, I’m a yes for medical marijuana, no for legalization.
Just take Colorado: I believed that when pot became legal, people would simply use it less, since the dark, forbidden aspect of it wouldn’t be “daring” them.
Well, color me corrected. It would seem to me that people are using the stuff even more, and some even more wantonly, than before in Colorado. The rate of accidents on the road has apparently TRIPLED since it was legalized, so that’s what I’m basing my conclusions on. People simply can’t help themselves. Sad.
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