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I believe Colorado did something similar with investing it in schools.
New York finally got a real coffee shop.
With love from Amsterdam >

From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam. You love to see it. 🥲 >

As someone who moved from the first to the second, it's been a while :) >

I can’t imagine leaving the NL to live in the US. It’s like the opposite of my dream. Haha.
(edit:) Like, let me exchange my holiday allowance and amazing metro for a dirty subway, crazy hustle culture and expensive healthcare. No gracias. >

Oh it seemed like a good idea at the time......
No regrets though. Finally got a job I love, a beautiful kid and a women who loves me and I love her. Things I never found in NL. Even though I am not originally from NL it will always be "home" to me and I do hope one day to return. >

Now federally decriminalize it and remove it from drug testing.  Even Canada considers it a breach of personal privacy. >


remove it from drug testing.

so glad california did this. >

My company stopped testing for it over 2 years ago. They got tired of over 70% of applicants failing. >

What’s ridiculous is that my company tests for hiring but then never again.  If you did a blanket test today of the 150 employees on the condition a failed test resulted in termination the company would be completely inoperable.
We have never had a problem with marijuana consumption or a high person on site.  We have had on-site alcohol consumption and DWI in company vehicles, though.
Drug testing doesn’t prevent that.  I’m not saying drug testing is pointless (it kind of is) but testing for marijuana is completely pointless by todays standards. >

I think it’s insurance for a lot of these companies in my legal state.
Anyways it feels like being a gay man in the military. They openly discuss their love of alcohol but I have to nod and not dare mention having a puff after work. It doesn’t help that I work for a traditionally conservative field, I had to pass a test to get hired but literally had the bosses talking about whiskey after a long day during the interview.
Fucking America, liberal legal state or not this country is run by old school conservatives. >

Price. Sticker shops aren't paying the high taxes a legal place has too.
Im in Buffalo and fully expect to see sticker stores being targeted when they start opening the legal dispensaries here.  The police in outlying suburbs (Cheektowaga) have already raided a sticker store/shut it down, so there is precedent. >

What is a sticker store? >

Marijuana is given as a “free gift” for buying something small and overpriced, like a sticker. Marijuana itself isn’t illegal, but the selling of it is.
Kind of like during early prohibition when bars would gift alcohol if you bought a more-expensive lunch. >

Hm wow >

Places here in NY aren’t even doing stickers anymore. Just go in and buy it. New York is so far behind with this. I should be able to purchase now but no legal dispensaries in my area. Only NYC areas. People here still have to use the grey market stores. In the mean time the local medical dispensary are ripping people off with their ridiculously overpriced items. 1/2 gram carts for $65. Piss off you crooks. >

And full grams for $93+ fuck outta here. Grey market will help regulate the legal market. Only need to wait a few years for it to balance. >

Damn I picked up 5 1g carts last week for $80 at a local dispensary here in MI. Those prices are nuts. >

Dude looks like he got some bubble tape >

Get a medical card, then you can do 6 plants. >

Congrats!  You're about to pay more in taxes than you do for the weed itself.  Keep your old dealers number handy.  Love- Colorado. >

I don't know what those taxes go to in Colorado but in California we've dumped a fuck ton of that money into revamping schools. Of course we still don't pay our teachers shit, but they have nicer areas under construction in  probably half the schools in our county. We even put air conditioning in their trailers!