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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The pot push is disgusting on so many levels. It literally makes society dumb. Colorado is a prime example.
Have you ever heard of The River Key area of KC. They were blowing each other’s saloons up in the 70’s. I’ve rode horses through hemp patches 5 feet deep. My comic relief is I didn’t know what it was. Killing and burning it, I must have smoked a bunch. Pretty funny, a cold one, and a movie, and Wanda was all I cared about.
Medical pot is pretty much a farce. It is semi-legal here in Virginia which means open season. In DC they give it to kids, and they bring it to school. Not allowed to share of course.
And... so what... nobody’s going out and getting sh!t faced drunk in the mean time?
“Expect tp see a weed store ever 6 blocks, in every direction.”
I live in metro area of 300,000 in a state where recreational has been legal for six years. There are two pot shops.
I’m slow, what’s your point.
Those fighting marijuana don’t understand how it is the same as the prohibition argument.
Those big shots on the Quay took each other out real good, didn’t they. And the feds rounded up quite a few more all over MO and KS.
From 2017. Much larger busts since then in NW MO.
Nearly 30 pounds of meth, fentanyl found at Kansas City bus station
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=d_uTyRRI14A
Well all I can say is this was the first Thanksgiving where the young adults in the famiy all looked like they could do with a long nap! The food was either undercooked, burnt or cold and it took four of them figuring out how to make gravy that tasted so sweet you’d thought they were making candy!....I truly wondered if they weren’t high..
Soooo you’re comment made sense to me!
Next year get a turkey pizza, a bag of Cheetos, and 27 tacos. Have it delivered to them and have a turkey sandwich at home. I’m prejudiced, I’d rather have ham, beans, cornbread, and fried potatoes. Did I mention I’m a hick. Oh and send a small bottle of pop the the kids too. Heeheeheee.
I know. Consider that drug dealers don’t ask kids for id.
I haven’t had such a good laugh in a good looonnnnggg time!
Robert Downey, Jr., was introduced to marijuana at the age of eight. Fortunately, it was his father, and not a pedophile.
Recreational mariuana will increase America’s productivity.
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The tight supply means that weed is likely to be relatively expensive,
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