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customerserviceguy

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8. Having legalization and retail sales in Illinois

Reply to Snarkoleptic (Original post)

Sun Dec 1, 2019, 02:41 PM

Dec 2019

is a big deal. When you think of how many states adjoin IL, you realize that a lot of people will be able to get cannabis and take it back to their home states. We saw that with the west coast, Washington legalized weed, then Oregon did (why give up the tax revenue to WA?) then California did.

Sure, you're going to have holdouts in the deep South, and probably Utah, but this is a big leap forward for legalization. Eventually the SCOTUS will be called on to make legalization national, especially after Federal law is changed to remove marijuana from the list of dangerous drugs, and even Kavanaugh will OK it.

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Next month we'll have recreational 'jazz cabbage' sales in Illinois. [View all] Snarkoleptic Dec 2019 OP

You'll be a kid in a candy store Cartoonist Dec 2019 #1

Distribution will be super-tight initially, as Snarkoleptic Dec 2019 #3

Don't count on your last sentence. Cartoonist Dec 2019 #7

Colorado opened their first Gas and Grass in 2015, so I'm hopeful Snarkoleptic Dec 2019 #9

It ain't fear of robbery Cartoonist Dec 2019 #10

I went to Trinidad, CO and there are 35 dispenceries in town. 10 of them on the same block ... marble falls Dec 2019 #15

here in California, it's mostly old farts like me... dhill926 Dec 2019 #2

I'm in my 50s, so it's going to be a major change, although you can only smoke it in your home. Snarkoleptic Dec 2019 #5

I don't think any have been approved yet, but there will be cannabis lounges tritsofme Dec 2019 #17

Jazz Cabbage... tonedevil Dec 2019 #4

Cheeba! Haven't heard that one in a long while. Snarkoleptic Dec 2019 #6

JOKE FLOWER. SonofDonald Dec 2019 #11

That's great... tonedevil Dec 2019 #12

When I used to go to church the priest called it the Devil's Lettuce lol dustyscamp Dec 2019 #20

Having legalization and retail sales in Illinois customerserviceguy Dec 2019 #8

House bill 3884 SonofDonald Dec 2019 #13

The other half customerserviceguy Dec 2019 #16

Yeah, that's going to be huge. Snarkoleptic Dec 2019 #14

Ann Arbor is open for pot tourism! roamer65 Dec 2019 #19

Today is the first day of recreational sales in Michigan. roamer65 Dec 2019 #18