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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It’s the drug warriors and prohibitionists that need to be voted off the island. They are morally bankrupt
Agee 100%.
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“Not even close to the same thing. Cigarettes contain well over a dozen toxic chemicals. Besides, marijuana users are generally moving away from smoking. It’s all about the edibles now.”
Pot smoke contains most of those things also, including radon from the uranium in the soil that it, like tobacco, uptakes.
The bottom line is that not everything “natural” is actually good for you.
Of my three acquaintances who are, or were , tokers, two are dead. (One died at 40, the other two were on oxygen for three years). Another, still living, is on oxygen. None have reached 65 years.
Now Willie Nelson has “breathing problems”, and has been cancelling concerts. He’s been living with it for a long time.
You might have a point.
Of the 4 Dr Pepper drinkers I know or knew, 2 are dead.
One year everyone I knew that died was age 47.
Beware of age 47, it is a killer!
No, its days are numbered; our President says it's a matter for the states.
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.
Thanks for the ping, btw!
Retirees would be excepted, as being closer to the Grim Reaper, they're less likely to use illegal substances. (And much less likely to give illegal substances to those who shouldn't handle it).
Willie Nelson will probably keep on with the stuff, and exit early. :(
Well, yes.
“The new Division of Criminal Justice numbers from last school year show 368 total incidents of all types at elementary schools, with 13 percent involving marijuana. At middle schools, 18 percent of the total 1,809 incidents involved pot, as did 30 percent of the total 4,118 incidents at high schools.”
...so yes. They ARE starting much sooner.
What are the other 87%?
I would assume that they are other incidents not related to illegal substances.
I don’t think a doctor’s script would achieve what you expect. Doctors are as corruptable as anyone.
So, 50 kids in the entire State of Colorado were involved with pot.
Compared to what?
That’s my point. How many total kids? What were the other incidents? What were they 10 years ago? 5 years ago?
You cannot toss out a statistic without context.
I am sure there were many more elementary school kids involved in assaults, alcohol issues, theft, etc.
It’s probably more of an issue with kids than it is with pot. But neither of us know.
You obviously did not read the article.
Ditto all that!!
You know one guy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLzADtDbPEY
From your link:
there was no statistical change pre- and post-2014,” Kreminski said.
Student attitudes have remained the same before and after legalization in terms of how harmful students perceive the use of marijuana to be and how wrong they think cannabis use is, Kreminski said.
Yeah, after I moved out of the commune I lost touch with all of the others. But they didn’t do hard stuff back then.
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