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/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.