Pot vote has Oklahoma hungry to rake in green from Texas

[RandySF]

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Tens of thousands of Texans from the bustling Dallas-Fort Worth area routinely drive across the Red River to gamble in glitzy, Las Vegas-style tribal casinos or to relax at cabins or swim and ski in lakes that dot southern Oklahoma.

Soon, they could come north for another draw: recreational marijuana.

Oklahoma voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve a ballot measure that legalizes consuming the plant for adults 21 and older. The conservative state already has one of the nation's most robust medical marijuana programs, and industry proponents hope an influx of Texas consumers will be a boon for a market that's become saturated.

“There are thousands and thousands of Texans who are increasingly coming to Oklahoma as a tourist destination,” said Ryan Kiesel, a former state lawmaker and one of the organizers of State Question 820. “I want to be able to sell legal, regulated and taxed marijuana to those Texans over the age of 21, and take their tax dollars and invest them in Oklahoma schools and Oklahoma health care.”

The population of the booming Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex alone — closing in on 8 million people — is nearly double that of the entire state of Oklahoma.




https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pot-vote-oklahoma-hungry-rake-green-texas-97628245

[Aristus]

1. Cannabis aside, it's a sign of how fucked up Texas has become that Oklahoma is

considered an attractive tourist destination. My memory of Oklahoma is that it is a relentlessly unappealing hellhole.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. Exactly this. Nt

[republianmushroom]

2. like it

[MagickMuffin]

3. Tell me about it, Texas would rather lose all that revenue

Stupid legislators. All the states surrounding Texas has some sort of Cannabis access.

Texas is in the dark, darkness is the absence of Light! Please send us Light and some disinfectant while you’re at it

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Hey, don't forget MO! Perhaps it's a little further, but we do have it available too, thank GOD!

Recreational cannabis use in Missouri has been legalized through ballot initiatives and will take effect on December 8, 2022. Medical cannabis was legalized in 2018, and in early 2020, the state began to issue licenses to dispensaries, producers, cultivators, and labs.

[maxsolomon]

5. Jeez I thought OK had Moral Fiber & High-Mindedness.

You'd think such an upright, God-fearing GQP State would never choose Filthy Lucre over the Demon Weed.

[budkin]

6. Texas will be the very last holdout

Just to spite Austin where I live.