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

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SgtScruffy: Dec 27, 2003; Babies.

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/01/03/gov-lepage-says-hes-signed-off-on-legal-marijuana/

LePage has signed it, though it looks like he's asking for a suspension of the ability to legally sell until they can figure out infrastructure

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SgtScruffy: Dec 27, 2003; Babies.

Mods please change thread name to mbanje megathread

# ¿ Dec 6, 2017 12:22

SgtScruffy: Dec 27, 2003; Babies.

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

While several initiatives in 2018 look pretty likely, here's one loooong shot: North Dakota is trying to get full-legal on the 2018 ballot: https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/north-dakota-cannabis-legalization-petition-okd-for-circulation

On the face of it, it seems pretty impractical since it was only two years ago they legalized MMJ, and that hasn't even begun to fire up yet. That said, Massachusetts only legalized MMJ in 2013 and went full Recreational in 2016, so it's not unprecedented. And I grant that doing it so close to the prior initiative has a few advantages, including a lot of institutional memory, maybe a lot of the same people re-volunteering, able to use the same locations/methods to get signatures, etc. And theoretically you might get some advantage from the outraged anti-weed people being burned out from losing in 2016, and indifferent to further increases.

Taking all that into account though, just over three years ago a poll in ND showed 47-41 in favor of Medical, but only 24-68 in favor of recreational. Though I'm sure those numbers have improved given the national trend, that's still a significant gap to have to make up.

With numbers like those three years ago, the anti-legalization crew probably can just sit back and let it happen, then when the ballot gets voted down something like 35-65, they can be able to say "the people of ND have spoken and recreational cannabis has no place here" and can cruise on that for 10 years or however long it takes for more tide to turn.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2018 15:09

SgtScruffy: Dec 27, 2003; Babies.

Dmitri-9 posted:

Another domino falls

https://twitter.com/DMVFollowers/status/960903410953457675

Of note this just allows doctors to prescribe/recommend CBD Oil; it doesn't allow for any sort of selling etc of actual cannabis

# ¿ Feb 6, 2018 23:49

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