There was a clear winner on election night: Marijuana

Just 'cause as far as I know, the election's still up in the air for the presidency at least, well there was this that's come out od the election so far.

thehill.com...

Voters in various states across the country approved a series of statewide ballot proposals on Election Day legalizing the use and distribution of marijuana for either medical or adult-use purposes.

Specifically, voters legalized the possession of marijuana by adults in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota. The measures in Arizona, Montana, and South Dakota each permit adults to possess and cultivate marijuana for personal use and establish a regulated retail market. In New Jersey, voters decided on a public ballot question. Garden State lawmakers must now enact enabling legislation in order to amend state law to comport it with the voters’ decision.

Additionally, voters approved the legalization of medical cannabis access in two states, Mississippi and South Dakota. In Mississippi, voters chose between two dueling initiatives — favoring a measure placed on the ballot by patient advocates and rejecting a more restrictive alternative measure placed on the ballot by state lawmakers.

Voters’ actions last evening were an unequivocal rebuke to the longstanding policy of federal marijuana prohibition, and is an indication that marijuana legalization is far from a fringe issue, but rather one that is now embraced by mainstream America

Marijuana reform’s massive electoral victories come just weeks after Democratic House Leadership prepared for, but ultimately pulled a vote on the bipartisan Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act. The vote would have marked the first time either chamber of Congress had ever voted to lift the federal prohibition on marijuana since the passage of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

That's some good news at least out of the election there. However you personally feel about marijuana, i've watched decriminalization and legalization work wonders for smaller communities where I live as far as economic stability and growth for people...granted much of that is still considered grey/black market due to some severe mismanagement by government, but cannabis has the potential to be a large thriving market with a reasonably low barrier of entry to people.

Looking at you, New York......

Reads more like an appeasement for our children terrorists in murika. Lol new tax market for idiots.

originally posted by: TheAlleghenyGentleman
Looking at you, New York......

You guys can come over here to score your weed and tax free clothing.

Nice!! If booze is legal than weed should definitely be legal.

originally posted by: Brotherman
Reads more like an appeasement for our children terrorists in murika. Lol new tax market for idiots.

I'll take it.

Tax revenue on something being bought anyways. Decreases tax spending for incarcerations. And it should be our right to injest something less harmful than alcohol if we want.

I can't see a downside.

a reply to: dug88

I suggest everyone just quit their jobs and smoke weed all day.

Everyone's a winner baby, that's the truth!

👀🚬

I hope they do it better than my province did, it's a joke. Most people went back to growing their own after trying the garbage the government sells at ridiculous prices.

Don’t forget coc aine and heroin...


www.cbsnews.com... aine-heroin-measure-109/


The weed thing is coming. Some hard drugs being decriminalized— meth next?

originally posted by: CriticalStinker

originally posted by: Brotherman
Reads more like an appeasement for our children terrorists in murika. Lol new tax market for idiots.

I'll take it.

Tax revenue on something being bought anyways. Decreases tax spending for incarcerations. And it should be our right to injest something less harmful than alcohol if we want.

I can't see a downside.

No downside? Taxes are legalized theft by people that feel they have to tell you how to live and make you pay them to do it. AKA psychopaths

originally posted by: ToddB

originally posted by: CriticalStinker

originally posted by: Brotherman
Reads more like an appeasement for our children terrorists in murika. Lol new tax market for idiots.

I'll take it.

Tax revenue on something being bought anyways. Decreases tax spending for incarcerations. And it should be our right to injest something less harmful than alcohol if we want.

I can't see a downside.

No downside? Taxes are legalized theft by people that feel they have to tell you how to live and make you pay them to do it. AKA psychopaths

As opposed to imprisoning you for it? Yea, I'll take the newer alternative.

Grow it yourself, don't pay the taxes, I don't care... Again, I see no downside to laws loosening.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

You think their going to stop people going to jail for weed? Grow up.

originally posted by: Brotherman
a reply to: CriticalStinker

You think their going to stop people going to jail for weed? Grow up.

I don't really understand what you're trying to say to be honest. Do I think they're going to stop sending people to jail for weed? Yes. If it's decriminalized/legal/medicinal, why would they arrest people when they know it's just going to get dropped?

Why would I be against people getting more freedom? I think it's absolute madness we incarcerate people for smoking weed.

a reply to: Brotherman

Reads more like an appeasement for our children terrorists in murika.

What does that even mean?

originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: dug88

I suggest everyone just quit their jobs and smoke weed all day.

Everyone's a winner baby, that's the truth!

👀🚬

Or..keep your job, and smoke anyway..responsibly of course.

originally posted by: Brotherman
a reply to: CriticalStinker

You think their going to stop people going to jail for weed? Grow up.

They are going to put people in prison for weed, when it's legal..not sure how you arrive at that?

a reply to: underwerks

It means people here are really mad, about the election, their lives, and how they have been spending their time lately. They have no shame and no ability to self reflect and they are lashing out at anything and anyone they think will make them feel better. Just happened to be your comment this time, and probably mine next. I shouldn't even bother with this but im sad to see people I used to respect act so childish and ignorant.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

You guys can come over here to score your weed and tax free clothing.

Why? I live in WA and 5 mins from OR...we got the best weed hands down...years ahead of you...lol

Actually I don't smoke as I carry a number of clearances, but I heard that OR has over grown so much weed that every person could smoke like a kilo a month and not dent it.

originally posted by: vonclod

They are going to put people in prison for weed, when it's legal..not sure how you arrive at that?

I guess Harris will be upset....

a reply to: vonclod

Depending on the laws he's not wrong.

Subject to provincial or territorial restrictions, adults who are 18 years of age or older are legally able to:

possess up to 30 grams of legal cannabis, dried or equivalent in non-dried form in public

share up to 30 grams of legal cannabis with other adults

buy dried or fresh cannabis and cannabis oil from a provincially-licensed retailer

in provinces and territories without a regulated retail framework, individuals are able to purchase cannabis online from federally-licensed producers

grow, from licensed seed or seedlings, up to 4 cannabis plants per residence for personal use

make cannabis products, such as food and drinks, at home as long as organic solvents are not used to create concentrated products

One (1) gram of dried cannabis is equal to:

5 grams of fresh cannabis
15 grams of edible product
70 grams of liquid product
0.25 grams of concentrates (solid or liquid)
1 cannabis plant seed

Possession over the limit
tickets for small amounts
up to 5 years less a day in jail
Illegal distribution or sale
tickets for small amounts
up to 14 years in jail
Producing cannabis beyond personal cultivation limits or with combustible solvents
tickets for small amounts
up to 14 years in jail
Taking cannabis across Canada's borders
up to 14 years in jail
Giving or selling cannabis to a person under 18
up to 14 years in jail
Using a youth to commit a cannabis-related offence
up to 14 years in jail

Plenty of room to throw people in jail over small things there.

If there's one thing I can recommend to states pursuing legalization, don't follow Canada's route. They managed to make a multi-million dollar industry lose money.