Well, finally one state has some sanity when it comes to this issue.
It is a credit to those who ran the “no” campaign, I would assume, educating the voters on what has happened in other states that have done this?
Knock me over with a feather!
OKLAHOMA SAYS NO!!!
I love it when I am wrong this way. I set myself up for a most pleasant surprise.
Whooo Hooo! and Whooop! Saints be praised and Thank God!!!
Time to start ripping the medical pot and grower mess to shreds.
As to why the NO vote:
1. Low turnout favors conservatives?
2. There are more pot stores than filling stations
3. If there were as many liquor stores an epidemic of alcoholism would be declared.
4. Outsiders are making a shambles of the security and peace in the state
5. Crime, rising with just medical pot
6. Fed up, Four gang murders up by Kingfisher. Others not ever reported. One on the highway at the corner of one of my pastures. I saw the cops and ambulance. Had to dig to learn what happened. Gang execution, never made the paper or any other records I can find. it isn’t safe to live in our own neighborhoods.
7. Rising property values and taxes, outsiders will pay anything and it has made a shambles of our lives. Money really isn’t everything. Some of us just want to be let the hell alone.
8. Did I mention crime? Add potheads thefts to the meth, fentenyl, crack and all the rest and the police blotter is more than half drug related theft and other crime. I did mention it but it is worth mentioning again.
9. No state that has done legal pot has done well
10. The state did a first class cock up in writing the law. Too lenient, too little regulation, too cheap to enter the market, allows growers to be growers to the world let alone Oklahoma.
11. Water, there isn’t enough for us and pot.
12. The legislature created a mess when they wrote weak, ignorant and incomplete law and the sheeple voted for it not realizing just how bad it was going to get. They both created a monster they are afraid to kill. This kind of monster has gangs, syndicates and asian drug lords, they fight back. The cops are afraid to intervene and the politicians are afraid to write laws to kill the monster they made. Local law enforcement in rural Oklahoma have never had to deal with this sort of thing before and are undermanned and out of their element.
Maybe there are a few other reasons. Can anyone else contribute?