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’m watching with great interest to see how many ways Illinois can **** this up.
I’m sure even I will be surprised
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“They don’t even care to consider the fallout.”
I have. And I applaud it. I’m all for stupid people making themselves even more stupid.
It makes thing easier for the rest of us.
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why give the govt all this tax money?.....why enable them?.....at least grow your own dope....
In 1973 kids were smoking pot in my Junior High.
Do you really think they are going to start that much sooner?
In life there is always cost, nothing is without effect.
Growing your own weed is not as easy as tossing some seeds in the back yard. For a weed, it’s a pretty finicky plant to grow.
Just say no!
Wage and tax slaves in this brave new world need their soma...
Expect tp see a weed store ever 6 blocks, in every direction.
So many of the heads in the Midwest will move to Illinois.
Plus, as I mentioned earlier and on every thread this creates a fantastic opportunity for other states to ship our addicts off to legal pot states.
Authorities are only getting tougher on pot in Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri. It’ll be a race to Illinois for dope smokers to avoid ever longer incarcerations. Dealers will also race to Illinois get in on the big profits.
It’lk be legal everywhere within a year or two, so don’t laugh too much.
It’lk be legal everywhere within a year or two, so don’t laugh too much.
Everywhere I go in Dallas I can smell it, so it might as well be legal.
bubble gum and cotton candy flavored pot- for the adult,s ya know-
No it won’t.
Watch how the States who turn hard against pot are already dumping their junkies off on Colorado.
I expect that Texas will go that route.
And (as the socialists are trying to do to the whole country with immigrants) you reach a tipping point where the infected states lose the voting power to throw them out.
Having grown up in the great state of Missouri. Mary wanna could grow thrive and be baled with a hay baler. In fact I have stories about it growing there. There has to be more about getting it grown right. We killed and burned ditch banks full of the crap and it didn’t do much for me. Cold beer and farm girls were a totally different matter. :)
10-4 on the beer and wimmin. ;)
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