Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

I drove an hour on rural freeway between two cities in michigan and it gave me flashbacks of college when I would be terrified of getting pulled over with weed in the, but this time there were at least six giant billboards offering MICHIGAN'S FINEST CANNABIS NEXT EXIT and it still feels so surreal to me.

Ha totally, I still doubtletake on those here in MA

Friend of mine produced this box of weed and weed-adjacent... items. Gummies, vape canisters or whatever they're called, actual weed etc. It was pretty hysterical after all the things we went through back in the day to buy earth bud. He took the day off work and went to Ann Arbor. (we live in Cleveland)

NJ passed rec

AZ too yesssss

dominoes falling

Yeah I was going to ask, what’s the count of states here? Like, how many are left to finally legalize things across the board?

Answering my own question:

2020 elections: 5 states pass legal marijuana measures, potentially growing industry by $9 billion https://t.co/52RYatHUXS by @alexiskweed pic.twitter.com/ICOcripUz0

— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) November 4, 2020

Seems like drugs did really well on the ballot last night, maybe they should run for president.

— Keri Blakinger (@keribla) November 4, 2020

xp when I lived on the wa/id border half the plates in the parking lot of the weed stores would have idaho plates, and the kansas people I know regularly travel over the border to colorado. I have no idea if they'll keep it illegal to prove some moral point or just give up after constantly losing money to other states.

I live in Wisconsin and there’s a Spongebob meme I wanna post right now but I’m too fucking tired

come on NY, get with the times

Here in MN a really fun dynamic has emerged where there are two distinct pot-legalization parties that have achieved “major party” status, and their vote-siphoning presence on the ballot is the only thing preventing Democrats from gaining the state senate and actually legalizing it. Good job dudes!

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/cuomo-this-is-the-year-marijuana-finally-gets-legalized-in-new-york/2705462/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-cannabis-vote/vote-in-mexico-brings-worlds-largest-legal-weed-market-one-step-closer-idUSKBN27Z3BK

EXCLUSIVE: Biden White House sandbags staffers, sidelines dozens for pot use https://t.co/yahy7dk01b

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 19, 2021

W33d is legal in DC iirc

yeah that's legitimately shitty, hope they reverse course now that it's a story

it's still illegal here but they opened up a Delta 8 dispensary recently, where you can buy weed which is I think just hemp with some stuff sprayed on it. it works but it's kinda weak. reminds me of the shit that went around in high school. still, it's priced appropriately - they sell 1g prerolls for $10 which is more than enough for me

A reminder that technically, you can’t “purchase” marijuana in DC because of Congressional interference, but you can purchase something else and receive marijuana as a “gift.” https://t.co/Ss5vb8E9ZJ

— Jane Coaston (@janecoaston) March 19, 2021

yeah i remember going to a place that had "gifts" when you buy a lighter or sticker

A premium experience, like smoking dab wax, meant purchasing a premium gift. She had two options. “I kid you not, the flag options were a Black Lives Matter flag or an All Lives Matter flag. They sold both. I just didn’t know what to do,” Grimaldi says. The dabs came on a one-flag-per-hit basis, and Grimaldi was with a friend, “so I bought two of the Black Lives Matter flags.” The blatant appropriation of diametrically-opposed movements rubbed Grimaldi in a weird way. “Then I had a dab hit and had no more questions,” she says.

lol wut

That is so fucked.

The people I deal with nominally sell a "digital subscription", but as far as I can there is no actual subscription. Maybe I should switch to someone who gives me socks.

It appears the grey market delivery service is in full swing for suburban New Jersey, as my coworker who I knew smoked on occasions started telling me about how he found a guy on IG that delivers regularly to him now.

Doin it for the 2.5gram

If only there was someone in the federal government with the authority to change that https://t.co/c1hiXhpcqu

— Will 🦥 Menaker (@willmenaker) March 24, 2021

A deal to legalize recreational marijuana in New York was crafted with the hope of making amends in communities affected by the war on drugs. Millions of dollars in tax revenue from cannabis sales would be reinvested in minority communities each year. https://t.co/vz0RUHmnRz pic.twitter.com/T7xq3zeWBW

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 25, 2021

Am I correct in thinking it's pretty unusual for states to legalize it via the legislature?

yeah, they tried that here in NJ but Murphy couldn't wrangle the dem majority to get their crap together. Ended up on going on the ballot and passed no problem.

Illinois passed it via legislature, and at the time it was the most progressive in the country, as far as steering tax money back to the communities who are targeted in the war on drugs

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/23/980277688/in-likely-first-chicago-suburb-of-evanston-approves-reparations-for-black-reside

comically long url

wow!

w33d buxx doing some good! i think it can do more but it's a start

^^^

as i paid an extra $100 in taxes for the ounce i purchased the other day, it honestly did make me feel better that a lot of it was going to those kinds of efforts

The New York state legislature formally voted to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana for adults and expunge the records of people previously convicted of possession.

Shortly after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night, the New York State Assembly voted 100-49 to pass the marijuana legalization bill.

dang tho

Had been wondering with all the sexual harassment accusations hitting cuomo if he was going to pull a northam in VA and get legalization legislation signed to try and get some goodwill back.

you wondered correctly

under different circumstances, there would have been mass smoke outs all across nyc in response to this but i dunno if i've even seen anything on insta about it yet!

One crazy provision is that w33d smoking is allowed in public where cigarettes are allowed

:O

lol

https://nypost.com/2021/04/01/nypd-gives-cops-new-orders-to-let-people-smoke-weed-in-public/

Specific guidance in the memo tells cops that people 21 and older can legally smoke weed “almost anywhere that cigarette smoking is allowed including on sidewalks, on front stoops and other public places.”

Wonder how NASWIPP feels about this

Marijuana prohibition is unproductive and unjust — and as the newly elected Board Chair of @NORML, I hope you will join me in putting an end to it. You can get on board right now at https://t.co/qdFr9TGHvx

— Rick Steves (@RickSteves) June 18, 2021

Loling at people just realizing he's been the squarest stoner around for years.

rick steves rules, i aspire to his level of quick-drying, money-belted self-confidence

Biden and the Democrats not even giving us decriminalized weed is just an incredible own goal.

I had no idea about Rick Steves' weed evangelism until that long New Yorker profile of him a few years back. Interesting dude.

Minnesota voice: “And he’s a good Lutheran”.