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Went back to Washington state this last month, and no sales outlets yet. Maybe by my next visit in 2015...

I must have missed that in the guest manual for my motel. I did see the ad for the pizza delivery, one would think it would have been printed nearby...

Anyway, my drug of choice is Northwest microbrew, and I found that in abundance! If any of you out there live near Seattle, and like a great India Pale Ale, try Georgetown Brewing's Lucille.

Color me shocked.

possessing and smoking pot was the only laws I broke. I'm 66 years old too. Too bad I can't/won't smoke anymore as I used to really like to cop a buz early in the morning. I do miss it.

Getting harder & harder gettin gigs, but that's another story.

Robust sales > pumps the demand > compels more hiring to meet the demand > more jobs > more money in people's pockets > more money circulating in the local economy > buy more pot > get more munchies > MORE robust Laffy Taffy sales > etc etc etc!

Since tourism brings jobs, it sounds like a good thing.

Our local economy was doing much better before the DOJ got local communities to hammer down the med marijuana dispensaries. A lot of them here in Calif. have been closed. We lost at least 9,000 good paying jobs, and of course, it also means when someone is without work, they' re getting food stamps and their County has to assume their medical costs, etc. So the DOJ has had a very negative effect on us.

There are few places in the USA that would not benefit from legalizing drugs, and allowing the growing of hemp. But even six months ago, those in the know state that only 3 to 5% of all Congress critters approve of medicinal marijuana or legalizing drugs. (Puppet masters over the Congress critters include Big Pharma, and big, for profit privatized prison industry.)

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

I'm so glad Colorado has legalized it. The latest report from the CDC tells us that 10,000 deaths a year are due to alcohol-impaired driving. 112million times a year alcohol-impaired drivers put all of us at risk. Our young people are constantly told that they can't have fun without alcohol, especially beer, and they live in the "coolest" state because we have hundreds of breweries.

Alcohol is also involved in a large number of the murders and accidents from guns in Colorado. Binge and excessive drinking caused about 88,000 deaths between 2006 and 2010.

Of course marijuana must be regulated and our young people educated about its effects, but we can be pretty much assured it will never cost us the heartache and the 51.2 billion dollars that we spend on alcohol every year.

and giving more money to corporations! anyone remember the comedy central bit on "hippies against weed"? It was on Crossballs, the fake debate show that pranked real experts.

Good for Colorado. I am so hoping my state of Maryland will become the first eastern state to do it, but probably not any time soon. We'll see. We could use the revenue and economic boost.