Illinois becomes 11th state to legalize marijuana

[Beringia]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-cb-legal-marijuana-illinois-20190531-story.html



Marking a historic moment in an expanding national movement, Illinois lawmakers on May 31, 2019 approved recreational marijuana legalization. After a contentious debate in Springfield the House of Representatives voted 66-47 to allow possession and sales beginning Jan. 1, 2020. The Senate had approved the measure earlier in the week. Gov. J.B. Pritzker plans to sign the bill into law, which would make Illinois the 11th state to legalize cannabis and the first state in which a legislature approved commercial sales. Vermont lawmakers legalized possession, but not yet commercial sales. Approval in other states came via referendum.

Who can grow and sell it?

Only the 20 existing licensed medical marijuana cultivation facilities will be licensed to grow it initially. Next year, craft growers may apply for licenses to cultivate up to 5,000 square feet, with preference given to applicants from minority areas disproportionately affected by the war on drugs, such as the South and West sides of Chicago. Medical marijuana dispensaries and new retail stores will be licensed to sell it. Medical cannabis patients will be allowed to grow up to five plants each at home.

Other states that legalize it
Washington
Oregon
California
Nevada
Colorado
Michigan
Vermont
Massachusetts
Maine
DC
Alaska

[customerserviceguy]

1. As Joe Biden would put it

this is a big fucking deal. When you consider how many states in the center of the US are only an hour or two away from Illinois, the pressure will be on in several of them to grab the tax money that Illinois will be getting from this. We saw it out West, where Washington State legalized, and since about 90% of Oregon residents are withi in an hour of the WA border, they legalized. Then, there was California.

Same thing is happening up and down the I-95 corridor in the Eastern seaboard, although a bit slower than I expected. I have no doubt that Minnesota and Wisconsin will join Illinois within a couple of years, and maybe Michigan and Indiana, too.

[Beringia]

2. That would be great

Ya money is a driver.

[customerserviceguy]

3. At some point

we will see legalized marijuana in the great majority of the country, and then the SCOTUS can simply declare the remaining states have violated privacy rights, especially with the states where medical marijuana is still not legal. Hell, Oklahoma legalized medical, if they can do it, then the rest of the country will fall in line.

[Beringia]

4. That would be good, Alaska is legal too, and they are deep red