NEWS Legalization is Closer Than We Think, Hopefully

[Doug58]

Here, recreational possession (up to 3z) and consumption is legal anywhere you can smoke, but recreational sales and cultivation rules have not been put in place yet. Limit will be raised to 5lbs within a year. There is expected to be a plant limit.

In reality though, on my corner in front of the bodega 2 young men sit in an expensive car. 24-7-365. They have a sidewalk sign hawking their wares. 2 blocks away is the precinct, nobody cares.

In the city are several private cannabis clubs openly selling with marked walk in locations.

What state is that?

Here in Michigan, dispensaries are now opening up everywhere. I don't think many of them will last. They seem to be rapidly cutting their prices from what I have been seeing. Market can't support so many dispensaries in the Winter season in resort areas until Summer vacationers come back.

You can legally carry 2 1/2 ounces in your possession. Have 10 ounces in a locked area in your house. Can grow 12 plants and have in your possession all you grow from the 12 plants.

 

[Drownomatic]

New York.

I believe that eventually prices will drop to where it isn't economically feasible to grow with paid electricity, just like mining bitcoins.

I am not in it for economic reasons though.

 

[JP1]

Slowly inching closer around here...

https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2022/03/nj-legal-weed-sales-on-verge-of-finally-getting-ok-to-begin.html

 

[Doug58]

New Mexico is set to become the 18th state to make purchase of cannabis legal tomorrow. The move comes after the state made medical cannabis legal in 2007 and possession of cannabis legal on June 29, 2021.

Adults 21 and older will be legally allowed to buy up to 2 ounces from dispensaries and other licensed retailers with a license. Smoking or otherwise consuming cannabis products in public remains illegal but will be permitted inside designated hotel rooms, casinos, cigar bars and tobacco stores who applied for a license.

For those growing the plant, one individual can legally grow up to six cannabis plants for personal consumption and up to a dozen can be grown per household with two or more adults over the age of 21.

 

[Doug58]

House passes marijuana legalization bill
The bill will now move to the Senate where Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is working on mirror legislation.


The bill passed primarily along party lines (220-204), with all but three Republicans voting 'no,' and all but two Democrats voting 'yes.'

The legislation will now head to the Senate where it will likely face an uphill battle toward passage, but has a powerful ally in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is working with several of his colleagues to introduce a twin bill sometime this spring.

The Senate bill face's an uncertain future because it would have to clear the 60-vote threshold. Even some within Schumer's own caucus, including Sens. Joe Manchin (W.V.) and Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), have expressed skepticism.\

The House bill is called the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, and if enacted would expunge marijuana-related offenses from people's records and formally remove the drug from the federal list of controlled substances.

The legislation would also apply a 5% federal tax on marijuana sales (that would gradually increase to 8%), funds from which would go toward programs directed at helping communities that have been harmed by policies related to the "war on drugs."

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-passes-marijuana-legalization-bill

 

[JP1]

https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2022/04/its-official-nj-legal-weed-sales-can-begin-april-21-state-says.html

 

[WildBill]

https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2022/04/its-official-nj-legal-weed-sales-can-begin-april-21-state-says.html

Those few places are going to be swamped!

 

[JP1]

Those few places are going to be swamped!

Not for long. The weed is ass. I've had my med card for like 10 years and might buy something just for the novelty a couple times a year

 

[Doug58]

Those few places are going to be swamped!

Where I live in Michigan when the first legal dispensary opened it was packed. A year and a half later, there are so many dispensaries opening that they are basically empty. The largest statewide dispensary appears to be Lume, opening up stores everywhere in the state but their weed is nothing special. They sell 1/8 ounces from $17.00 to $45.00. They advertise ounces for $175.00 but they apparently package it by the 1/8th ounces.

Then there are single location dispensaries and tribe owned dispensaries.

Lume pricing is vastly different depending on what community they are based in. Four different locations in four different towns near me, each in adjoining counties. The more affluent county they sell the same items for twice the price as the other locations. I expect that many of the dispensaries will close before long. State law allows anyone over 21 to grow 12 plants.

I bought a few 1/8ths when they just opened some dispensaries and offered buy one get one free. They package it in containers where they purge the air and replace it with nitrogen. Weed seems overly dry and just crumbles

 

[Rasterman]

Per the DEA legalization is curbing trafficking and the DEA uses word us as “when” not “if” legal .... Read more here:

DEA Admits State-Level Marijuana Legalization Reduces Illegal Market Demand

DEA Admits State-Level Marijuana Legalization Reduces Illegal Market Demand

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently acknowledged in a report that state-level marijuana legalization reduces instances of illegal interstate trafficking. In its performance budget submission to Congress for fiscal year 2021, DEA gave an overview of its enforcement efforts and made...

www.marijuanamoment.net

It just goes to show that the Federal government is (quoting the Bible here) like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

I can't wait to see a state say "F-U" to the feds, and double-down on the Constitution's protections. This notion of "Feds trump states" is not supported by the Constitution, and there's not a single person in the government who doesn't know that. Which of course, makes most of them anti-American if you think about it.