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Originally Posted by GeoffD
Depends on when in the 80's. That changed pretty quickly when it went from being a rich people party drug to poor people crack dens. A felony drug conviction was kind of career-inhibiting.
This was late 80s. And crack and powder were marketed to completely different demographics, which is why the sentencing was different. No one thought of felony convictions as a kid or even as a 20 something.
My kids are all grown up adults. But if i had kids today, i surely would not want them to live a community where they would pass POT stores on the way to school and walk by POT stores and POTophiles in their neighborhood. Whitman Ma just banned local POT stores. That makes Whitman a children friendly community.
Also, Whitman Ma residents voted yes in the majority to legalize POT in Mass on the state referendum.
This past week, residents have changed their minds, Whitman Ma residents voted NO to POT.
Brookline & Newton both have dispensaries and as you know both of those communities are highly desired by families with children. You should be more worried about the opioid epidemic that is affecting all communities in this state.
Whitman is a blank hole. Historically.
But the point is, banning and not having POT businesses on every street comer may bring gentrification to Whitman and drive out the undesirables and an upgrade to the community.
Since Colorado legalized Marijuana in 2012, over 70% of Colorado communities have banned local pot stores. Those 70% of Colorado communities have seen the destruction being done by having local POT stores in CO communities.
I'm not exaggerating but you sound like you'd be some old cranky/crazy person who had is in some documentary on iD/ or on Hulu somewhere.. like the "hoarding:buried alive" type.
You really sound pretty obssessed and It just doesn't even sound like we're talking about weed. Are you seriously this concerned about weed??
All these left field entities and terms are being brought into the mix... Gentrification? Community destruction? Commuter rail? How could you "upgrade a community" by doing nothing?
You guys can keep hating. wror and I are gonna buy some real estate and laugh all the way to the bank.
Is that to say, you and wror are going to hit the jackPOT?
Really though, there's no problem with home rule and groups self-selecting. It happens for a lot of reasons based on a lot of factors. If your town wants to opt out of legal cannabis, that's fine, but don't ask for any of the gains derived from other communities opting in.
In the South, there are a lot of dry/semidry counties - you can't buy liquor or even beer in a lot of them. They tend to have more drunk drivers because they go to the nearest non-dry county to get what they want.
'Your a Whitman homeowner. Or any other Ma community. Do ya do what Lexington did, or Brockton?
Oct 19, 2017
LEXINGTON, MA -- Lexington joined other area towns with a Special Town Meeting vote Wednesday that banned recreational marijuana sales in the town https://patch.com/massachusetts/lexi...n-meeting-vote
Estimated median household income in 2016: $163,571
'Your a Whitman homeowner. Or any other Ma community. Do ya do what Lexington did, or Brockton?
Oct 19, 2017
LEXINGTON, MA -- Lexington joined other area towns with a Special Town Meeting vote Wednesday that banned recreational marijuana sales in the town https://patch.com/massachusetts/lexi...n-meeting-vote
Estimated median household income in 2016: $163,571
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