Wife has a card and we both voted yes. Reason being that she wouldn't have to go through the hassle and cost of renewal every 2 years.
Doubtful. She never shops for product based on cost. Or buys that much. Entirely edibles. She will go to a dispensary based on if they carry what she wants to buy. You might be surprised on the different inventories they stock or they will stock something she likes then run out and never stock it again. Cost of the product is the least of our worries.
Wonder if anything will happen with this: https://www.route-fifty.com/public-s...g-bill/383711/
kind of but not really with just different leadership decisions the FBI could raid every dispensary in the united states .. and the FBI could raid and charge every land lord bank ect that does business with weed business ..
it is still very much illegal everywhere in the united states ..
Rec will probably never be on a November ballot again and always stand alone. We still have a good med. marijuana program, if we can keep it. I won't be surprised if a petition comes out for a vote to abolish it with a constitutional amendment. Hopefully, the sponsors won't be able to find funding to hire enough paid signature takers. Hopefully, my concerns are unwarranted.
Medical marijuana keeps Oklahoma from getting additional revenue from people from other states. Texans can't get a marijuana card, as far as I know, so Oklahoma is crippling itself
I distinctly remember when parimutuel betting passed for Remington Park largely because of the revenue the State could pass along to public schools. The same promise was made for the lottery. And medical marijuana. Here we are 35 years later and Oklahoma's schools are abhorrent by any measure. Fool me once, twice...but more voluntary taxes for the purpose of improving our schools rings hollow for me.
Since it’s still federally prohibited. The VA won’t prescribe it. We absolutely won’t withhold care in any aspect to someone who has a medical card. That said the VA is very very conscious of opioid use., to the point it can be very tough to maintain long term opioid use. Not a popular opinion with some of those that are in pain.
I think you already know this, as I don't know of any Oklahomans that don't. But every time there is a 'new revenue stream' adding to the education budget, the budget itself has also been cut. This has been happening for almost two decades now.
2017:
https://www.keranews.org/education/2...in-past-decade
This isn't true for the lottery. They can't offset it and there are audits every year to confirm this. Just recently in fact they identified where they did offset it and they had to refund it. The reality is that the lottery is just a tiny fraction of the state education budget. Relatively speaking it doesn't generate much money. The folks promising the lottery would fix education funding way overpromised verses the reality of what the lottery has generated.
Recreation failed because as far as the voters are concerned, it's already recreational. Most voters aren't concerned with out of state purchasers. It would have taken the cannabis industry workers to care enough to persuade their clients to vote and vote themselves. If the state had done a better job of regulating the industry then the casual user would probably be inclined to vote for recreational. It shouldn't be so easy to get a card. They also should have restricted how many dispensary/grow licenses are allowed and not allowed them to be put everywhere. Some towns in Colorado restrict them to one street or block. They also should have made licensees much more expensive. Previously anybody with a few thousand dollars could be in the business instantly. The number of out of state workers that came here just to pay a local to get a license for them is absurd. The only residents that bothered to vote are just tired of everything the way it is.
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