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I don't understand why this is news. Oregon is full of weed stores literally on the same property as gas stations. So a big chain is carrying legal weed... who cares?

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Florida is why this is news. East coast legal states just don't have the same attitude so far. Dispensaries on the east coast are typically quite limited on where they can operate.

Florida isn’t even a legal recreational state (lawyers made sure that ballot got kicked off) so this is still only for medical.

It should be noted that in most states with medical one can tell a teledoc "I have anxiety" and get a card very fast.

Yeah the "medical" thing is just a hand-out to the doctors who get to act as gatekeepers, and the middlemen who've popped up to funnel customers to them. $100 or whatever for a 5-minute call, if it's even that long, name any of a few things that're true for basically everyone ("sometimes I have trouble sleeping" or "sometimes I'm anxious") and that's that. Nothing about it is treated seriously by anyone involved.

I saw ads in the newspapers here in California that said it was 30 dollars for a doctor to say you need weed without even seeing you.

Soon after that we just voted to make it legal.

The problem is you document your use, which is problematic for those who own firearms, work in information security, etc.

I can't believe you can still get 10 (scratch that, 15 after the latest amendment to prohibited persons signed this summer) YEARS in jail for licensed medical patient to own a joint next to a .22 squirrel rifle.

Firearms rights and pot freedoms fall politically on opposite sides of the political aisle so I have no real hope that's going to be fixed in the near future. There's no bipartisan incentive.

I'd imagine along those lines, problematic for licensed pilots as well.

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