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 Years 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. Itll 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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At work, we have one crew all of whom smoke weed on the job and are by far the laziest and most careless of crews, costing the company complaints about the work done or not done as well as the low quality of the work and potentially losing those customers.
LOL!
They have a stronger union than the Meth activists. For now.
Missouri just legalized medical marijuana this past year.
The main thing Illinois residents need to know is that your neighbors are Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky, and you will improve your quality of life, political environment and economic prospects in any of the adjoining states. Farmers are stuck, but why should anyone else stay?
Not even close to the same thing. Cigarettes contain well over a dozen toxic chemicals. Besides, marijuana users are generally moving away from smoking. Its all about the edibles now.
The welfare system is the great enabler of drug abuse. If we subsidize something, we will get more of it. It's time to cut off the subsidies.
Three states that are consistently in the top 10 for obesity. Priorities.
“A gram is better than a damn.”
Somebody’s Huxley is showing.
;^)
I saw a great alternative....Big juicy steak and shrimp on the grill and just stay home! LOLOL
And they haven’t been fired because . . .???
RDJ is pushing 60.
I thought we were talking about today? Kids are introduced to alcohol much earlier and THAT is several more times addictive and damaging as pot.
It is important to keep things in perspective. I am NOT advocating pot or liquor use before the age of majority.
Will growing your own remain illegal?
They dont even care to consider the fallout.
My main objection to legalization is that when individuals have toked themselves into befuddled unemployability the libs in the legislature will declare the dependence a disease and put them on the dole for life. IOW, their hand in my pocket.
I live in the capitol of Oregon. There are a dozen pot shops within a mile of my house.
Job security for us responsible folks is a good way to look at it I suppose.
We still have to toe the line for the losers who make bad decisions however & sometimes that impacts us too.
Like when we have to kill them as they break into our homes looking for booty to support their horrid habits.
Absolutely!
It will always be a federal crime to for marijuana use & possession.
the management is terrible ... the company is going down. 3 of the top management were either fired or quit The big boss is an ass (to be nice) who thinks workers are interchangeable parts not worthy of respect and so forth.
Our branch just reflects that thinking.
We are nearly lifelong pot smokers.
We started our business 40 years ago.
Swung the hammers to build our home.
Paid the mortgage off 30 year ago.
Have built a 6 figure nest egg.
Our income to debt ratio is 0%. Debt free.
We vote conservative. Have voted for Trump twice and will be voting for President Trump every chance we get.
Do you want to vote us off the conservative island for being pot users?
The lazy and unproductive will still be lazy and unproductive without pot use.
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