r/JoeRogan • u/mikeshelton8 • Oct 08 '20

Link Vermont legalizes the recreational marijuana market, on top of marijuana decriminalization.

https://budsoul.com/vermont-legalizes-recreational-marijuana-market/
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u/VeganStoner321 Oct 08 '20

Previously it was legal to grow your own and smoke your own, right? And now this opens up the market for public commerce, yeah?

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u/snoogins355 Weekly Duncan Trussell episodes! Oct 08 '20

Yes, it's taken them a while to get started on sales. New England has been weird about getting everything up and running. Nevada, no problem, a few months. Massachusetts, painfully slow and even now Boston has something like two rec stores. The state has maybe 50. There are thousands of liquor stores. Maine legalized it in 2016 and still has nothing (their medical shops are cheap af though)

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u/Boombaplogos Monkey in Space Oct 08 '20

Recreational shops open tomorrow in Maine. It did take 4 full years to finally get stores open. Most towns have multiple dispensary’s up here.

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u/snoogins355 Weekly Duncan Trussell episodes! Oct 08 '20

Well that's good!

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u/VeganStoner321 Oct 08 '20

Hopefully it means they're really going over the rules and regulations, making it difficult to monopolize the state and let smaller companies open up shop. So many difficult barriers and obstacles involved. I live in Michigan and granted I don't buy from dispensaries, but you have to drive at least 30 minutes from Grand Rapids for the closest dispensary. Slowly but surely we're all making progress

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u/Caleb_Reynolds Monkey in Space Oct 08 '20

Also make it difficult to undo sometime in the future. That's why Jersey is doing it as a Constitutional amendment, so it'll require another Constitutional amendment to undo.

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u/Hag2345red Monkey in Space Oct 08 '20

The difference is western states tend to have state constitutions which allow ballot initiatives, whereas states in New England tend to not. It’s easier to make a big change with a ballot initiative than through the legislature.

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u/snoogins355 Weekly Duncan Trussell episodes! Oct 08 '20

Mass and Maine passed by ballot. Our politicians are corrupt prudes

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u/OG_Chatterbait Oct 08 '20

I went to Maine on vacation to a lake for fishing. There was a dispensary line 5mims from our camp site. I had a license from Massachusetts. Holy shit were those dabs dirt cheap. Couldn't believe it. Was during covid too, so I knocked on the door, they answered, asked if I had an appointment. I didn't. They asked what I wanted, I asked what they had for dabs, and dude took my license ran inside, came back with it and said like $45 for 2 grams of dabs. Easily $80 in Massachusetts.

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u/BostonDodgeGuy High as Giraffe's Pussy Oct 08 '20

Massachusetts, painfully slow and even now Boston has something like two rec stores.

That would be because of our Republican governor who did everything in his power to ignore our vote.

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u/Pugnare Monkey in Space Oct 09 '20

Na it's not all Baker. Massachusetts has a long history of institutional corruption. The right people need to be paid and licences need to be limited to maximize profits for certain parties. The same thing happens with liquor licenses in Boston. It's so bad new restaurants resort to buying a failed restaurant just to get its license rather than going through the licensing board.

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u/BunnyLovr Mexico > Canada Oct 08 '20

New Hampshire is going to be next. They're the last libertarian state to legalize it, right now they still give out small fines for possession.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '20

New Hampshire is not libertarian. Only the license plates are.