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In reply to the discussion: House Votes To End DEA Raids On Legal Medical Marijuana Operations [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)will make a shiteload because there's no place west of the rockies with legal marijuana and the midwest is so much more accessible to major population points in the midwest, south, and east.
Unfortunately, however, too many of those states have regressive legislators who respond to the regressive religious right wing in their states.
They always seem to miss these "teachable" moments in history... alcohol prohibition, how they're always on the wrong side of every social/cultural issue, how the world constantly passes them by and they remain mired in backward thinking that fails to attract new industry and people who work in them...
oh well.
It's the west's gain.
I've said here, before, I could see a shift in power in electoral politics as the west becomes the leader on issues that the east/midwest/south cannot address because they lack the courage to tell religious right wing voters the truth - which is that legalization is going to occur and it's smarter to be first in rather than last, as far as revenues for a state go.