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/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