Cannabis megathread: world wide weed (read rules in OP)

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Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

I strongly suspect that New Jersey might legalize it soonish since our despised governor Chris Christie (aka fat reek) is a determined drug warrior and we have (a republican sponsored!) legalization bill sitting in the state house right now that would probably pass if he wasn't blocking it.

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Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

New Jersey has a new governor sworn in, and he wants a Legalization bill on his desk chop chop so he can pass it. For your nostalgic contrast, here are a number of "over my dead body" quotes from outgoing governor Chris Christie: http://www.thecannabist.co/2018/01/15/chris-christie-marijuana-quotes-history/96795/

And Virginia has a new governor, Ralph Northam, who made Decrim a major point during his campaign, so watch for VA to slide into that category soon.

Re New Jersey, I was idly dicking around with GoogleMaps to figure out how people in NYC are going to go get weed once NJ legalizes this year. Turns out there aren't direct subway stops from the NY system, but there are two trains going from Manhattan west into NJ on the separate PATH system. So look for whoever is smart enough to open a dispensary just off the first PATH stop to make a killing selling to New Yorkers. Philly I'm not sure, can't you just walk/bike across a bridge and be in NJ?

Given that diversion of legal weed to non-legal states has come under scrutiny, I imagine that being a much huger issue once NJ goes all-in. Getting weed out of Colorado involves driving through hours of empty space and limited routes in severely anti-weed states, whereas from NJ it's going to be a 30-minute trip and back across the border to a Decrim state that theoretically doesn't care as long as you're carrying under the legal limit (25g for NY?). So that will be a fun one to watch.

It's going to create a big green wave across the Eastern seaboard and give sessions heart palpitations. So yeah it's gonna own

# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 15:58

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

Now that Vermont has finally jumped over, the next big question is how promptly NJ gets rolling. NJ is way bigger news both in terms of population (nearly 9 million), and centralized location bordering major population centers surrounding it. That will also bring the percentage of Americans in legal states from 20% to about 23%.

One NJ goes, CT and RI are going to start looking awfully lonely sitting out there, so those will be worth keeping an eye on.

And though Michigan is the only state (almost) definitely voting on legalization on the November ballot, there are plenty of other initiative states that don't have a deadline until much later in the year, and could conceivably field a ballot initiative.

We're starting to see some weird ones in the mix too; the current governor of Minnesota is anti-legalization, but almost all 2018's candidates for governor from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (MN's dominant party) are pro-legalization, so 2019 legalization in Minnesota of all places is a possibility, and Michigan opening up the Midwest will help strengthen that.

Murphy signed an executive order today to relax medical. It looks like the debate in the statehouse is going to take some wrangling though since some of the reps are concerned (being cowards) about sessions rescinding the memo. There are other issues with the current bill that has been introduced as well.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2018 14:38

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

Virginia House panel votes 7-1 against decriminalizing weed, so VA likely a no-go for this year.

https://www.thecannabist.co/2018/01/26/virginia-marijuana-legalization-panel/97605/

In happier news, on Thursday the NJ Legislature will introduce their new legalization measure on Thursday:

http://www.snjtoday.com/story/37358689/pot-bill-passage-by-june-possible-in-garden-state

Poll came at today saying that legalizing it fully only polls at 42%

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