I am often left perplexed by the actions of my state’s government and the people who currently control it.
- They run their election campaigns with a set of promises and virtue signals to an ideology and value system that they almost always betray once they get into power.
For instance, they often say that their utmost focus is to follow “the will of the people,” but if we vote for something like medical marijuana and pass it with over 70% of the votes, they find an exception to that rule. I think it’s because there are too many card carrying members of that party who are explicitly against medical cannabis, regardless of the massive support behind the constitutional amendment that finally legalized it in this state. While it might be years before we get a proper recreational cannabis market here, I can’t complain too much. The cost of my marijuana doctor isn’t cheap in the slightest, but at least I’m not getting subjected to the insanely high recreational cannabis taxes out in the western states. But, it would be cool if we could have something like a cannabis cafe where you could sit down, smoke, eat cannabis-infused food, and chill with your friends for an hour or two. Since we have a purely medical marijuana program and not a recreational one, this isn’t going to happen. The state’s Department of Health would never allow a cannabis cafe to open, strictly based on how the law is currently written and how licenses are handed out. There is no system in place for a business like a cannabis cafe, at least not until the laws are changed.