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.