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We’ll see this June. SQ 788 is basically rec MJ legalized. Arkansas is on board. I hope Oklahoma gets in front of the issue. We can only hope.
WRONG. No way is SQ788 about the same as rec. This is because obtaining pot requires a doctor's approval. Do you know of any state where legal rec marijuana purchases first require a doctor's approval or anybody else's approval? As far as I know, all you need to be is at least 21 in legal rec states.
WRONG. No way is SQ788 about the same as rec. This is because obtaining pot requires a doctor's approval. Do you know of any state where legal rec marijuana purchases first require a doctor's approval or anybody else's approval? As far as I know, all you need to be is at least 21 in legal rec states.
Oklahoma? Probably after 2050. The Baptists have too much power here. Then again, if Trump flip-flops on this issue, it might expedite it here in the Deep Red South. It seems like Trump has the ability to cause the moral crusaders to no longer care about certain issues.
It could be considerably sooner than 2050. If Oklahoma legislators don't end up gutting SQ788. That will encourage petition organizers in two to four years to go the statute route, rather than for a constitutional change. Already a petition to legalize rec marijuana has been submitted to the state. But it is to amend the state Constitution to, if approved by voters, avoid gutting from legislators. But it won't succeed since it requires too many signatures at 124,000. Going for a statute change only requires 66,000 signatures. At any rate, I think Oklahoma is ready to legalize med marijuana but not rec marijuana.
Baptists have too much power in Oklahoma? Then where the hell were they in 2016 when Oklahoma voters approved by a wide margin to allow sales of strong beer and wine in grocery stores and convenience stores? The vote also allowed liquor stores to sell cold beer and open on Sunday. Also 3.2% beer sales will cease some time after Oct. 1.
All Trump has to do to get re-elected is campaign on legalization of marijuana.
That wouldn't work in Oklahoma. In a fairly recent poll, only 37% of Oklahomans approve of legalizing rec marijuana. Cruz rather than Trump won the Republican primary. Unlike Cruz, Trump failed to come across as being deeply voted enough to being Christian.
Marijuana is the same thing. What used to be illegal is now considered not so terrible. I think medical pot is a good thing but opening it up to everyone is not a good idea. I think we have enough people walking and driving around in a daze that we don't need more.
People trying to drive and use the phone at the same time are a far greater menace to society than people smoking pot.
As a resident of Colorado, I wholeheartedly concur. Gardner has seen the benefits of MJ legalization from the correct points of view--the 10th Amendment and the benefits of capitalism.
I've told people that if they want to convince prohibitionists in other states of the positives of legalization, just bring them a copy of Westword--the weekly free alternative paper here in Denver--and show them how 1/3 of it is ads for MJ dispensaries.
Showing people Wesword absolutely wouldn't work in Oklahoma and be a profoundly stupid thing to do. Seeing all those numerous ads for dispensaries would deeply alarm them and make them even more opposed to legalizing rec marijuana.
Which is why some states imprison people for simple marijuana possession for 20 years, while others issue the equivalent of a traffic citation for the same offense, still others no longer prohibit individual recreational use within specific limits, and the feds don't exercise any jurisdiction/enforcement in most of these cases.
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list the states that presently imprison people for 20 years for simple possession.
Why should the government crackdown on what is legal? Isn’t that the definition of government overreach?
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