California weed could take as long as a year to become legal ...

[Auggie]

please hurry.

https://mic.com/articles/159284/when-does-california-s-marijuana-law-go-into-effect-these-are-the-key-dates-to-know#.9MZ671mJJ

[LisaM]

1. It's legal in Washington state. I voted for it, BUT....

I have to say, I didn't think it would mean that the whole downtown area would suddenly smell like cheap stinkweed, which it does.

[Raster]

2. that's not stinkweed... that's patchouli

[LisaM]

4. No, it's not!!!

It's THC oil, and I have to tell you, it didn't have the effect I thought it would. Of course, it's paired with housing becoming ridiculously unaffordable so there are a lot more people on the street and a lot of them just sit out there getting high. I walked down Third Avenue the day after the election and there were maybe 30 people gathered in front of a few businesses (7-11, smoke shop, and a payday loan place), all in varying degrees of being high. They were blocking the doorways to the businesses and blocking the street. About ten minutes after I walked through there, there was a fight and five people got shot.

I still support pot being legal, but please be very careful to craft rules for using it in public.

[Raster]

6. i lived in WA when it became legal... it takes a bit for it to shake out...

...and people to realize yes, it's legal and no, we can't just smoke anywhere we like.

[LisaM]

9. Of course, prior to its being legal, we passed a law that you can't arrest someone for smoking pot -

at least as a primary offense. Note: I'm not against arresting people for pot use in the least. But now I think the two laws contradict each other. They should at least be able to write a token ticket of $10 or something.

[GP6971]

3. Washington also took a while

and I know what you mean...there are areas of downtown Olympia where it just reeks.

[LisaM]

5. Law of unintended consequences....

it's actually made parts of downtown hard to navigate through.

[Auggie]

7. Cigarettes are pretty much banned in a lot of CA public places ...

I imagine same will hold true with dope.

And with that I reach 22,000 posts ... on a dope thread!

[GP6971]

8. Congratulations!! n/t