Whatever we knew that was gonna happen we knew everything that was gonna happen it's not even interesting anymore thanks to Nate Silver and so on, hey on the plus side Oregon and DC legalized pot, so hopefully we'll get really great news bits in the future of people taking huge hits on the sidewalk right behind Obama. Or something.
Here in DC, the results are kinda bittersweet. We got pot legalization across with prop 71 one, and we're all ecstatic about it, but then we think about how that was something Tommy Wells pushed hard for, and for the right reasons: arrests target poor and black communities unfairly and ruin lives over minor things. And Tommy Wells is a fantastic person and what every politician should be. He lost in the democratic primary for mayor to Muriel Bowser, who also won last night. She is going to be... very bad for the city. Well, maybe not very bad, but the most we can hope for is "not fuck us over." Not to mention, on the marijuana legalization, we all have to sit here on bated breath to see if Congress decide to tell us to go fuck ourselves and nix it. Of course, the GOP winning both House and Senate makes that possibly better for us, because all these republicans spouting off about state rights can't come in and stop us from our democratic vote without looking like massive hypocrites. Of course, that probably won't stop them, because what the fuck do they care about ideals once they're actually in office, but at the very least it'll provide a laugh if they do come down on us.
Yea! Oregon legalized pot, now all the people I know who pay their mortgage out of their basement will be in a tough spot while corporate interest soak all the weed money out of the local economy. I haven't known anyone who's done jail time after getting busted for weed here in over a decade. The only difference will be that weed prices will go up (like they did in Washington), we will get better weed, and our local economy will get kicked in the ass long term. It was mostly legal as things stood, I don't know what every one is so excited about. If they made psychedelics legal I'd be in the streets whooping my ass off right now.
I don't know man… now that we've got the banking situation figured out - I know a few people personally who completely support themselves (very well) as small business growers. Maybe in time weed will go more corporate, but until the Feds sort it out, I don't think we'll see it. Right now in Colorado, t is an entrepreneur's dream. Shoot… I've even given it some thought.and our local economy will get kicked in the ass long term
I get what you're saying and pot advocates have been saying the same things for years now but at the same time it's a positive step in the long run -- one state closer to realizing weed isn't dangerous at all and should be bought and sold at stores etc. It's a sort of large scale victory but there's no getting around the screwy economics of the situation when it comes to dealers and the illegal userbase.