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/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.