I voted in 2012 to legalize in Colorado and ended up living in California in 2016 and voted there too to support it. The way both states implemented legal weed is different in a some ways. Colorado allowed the industry to flourish with less regulations than California did. But because Colorado was one of the first states, it became a haven for transplants of “pot entrepreneurs” and annoying stoners. Turns out the taxes and regulations are so high in California (no pun intended and to nobody’s surprise) that it created an even larger black market than existed when it was illegal.
Marijuana’s legal status in Mexico isn’t illegal anymore by the way. The Supreme Court had a ruling back in 2021 permitting personal possession and a few plants allowed to be grown per person. There are a few shops in the country that sell it although from what I understand it’s mostly CDB supplements and hemp. AMLO, the current President and long accused of cozying up to the cartels, isn’t a fan of the plant though and Congress has stalled on passing laws to actually permit an “industry.”
Honestly my biggest issue with legal weed are the outrageous claims that using it, especially among younger users whose brains aren’t fully developed, is that it causes no harm.
I'll be damned (guess I shouldn't be surprised) about CA's black market.
I agree with you that there's been a lot of ignoring and turning a blind eye to the effect marijuana has on young folks who, as you say, haven't finished cooking yet.
I voted for legal weed.
I don't consume it, but everything seems to be OK.
Fair enough. I have my take on it, but it's a take, not the take.
I voted in 2012 to legalize in Colorado and ended up living in California in 2016 and voted there too to support it. The way both states implemented legal weed is different in a some ways. Colorado allowed the industry to flourish with less regulations than California did. But because Colorado was one of the first states, it became a haven for transplants of “pot entrepreneurs” and annoying stoners. Turns out the taxes and regulations are so high in California (no pun intended and to nobody’s surprise) that it created an even larger black market than existed when it was illegal.
Marijuana’s legal status in Mexico isn’t illegal anymore by the way. The Supreme Court had a ruling back in 2021 permitting personal possession and a few plants allowed to be grown per person. There are a few shops in the country that sell it although from what I understand it’s mostly CDB supplements and hemp. AMLO, the current President and long accused of cozying up to the cartels, isn’t a fan of the plant though and Congress has stalled on passing laws to actually permit an “industry.”
Honestly my biggest issue with legal weed are the outrageous claims that using it, especially among younger users whose brains aren’t fully developed, is that it causes no harm.
I'll be damned (guess I shouldn't be surprised) about CA's black market.
I agree with you that there's been a lot of ignoring and turning a blind eye to the effect marijuana has on young folks who, as you say, haven't finished cooking yet.
Now there’s this in CA:
https://reason.com/2024/09/09/gavin-newsom-wants-california-to-have-more-restrictive-drug-laws-than-florida/
Plus their efforts to ban nicotine flavored vapes and Zyn-type products. Then there’s the methyl cigarette bans to “help” black people.
Yet open air dealing of far more severe drugs and prostitution runs rampant in some of the cities despite pushback from average Californians.
Wow. Just wow.