Back in school, I wanted to transfer out west to a single of the few states at the time that had legal cannabis dispensaries open.
I thought that it would be another decade or longer before our own state would legalize medical or recreational cannabis, but it was only numerous years in total.
I was eager to vote in that unique election so that I could include our voice in the decision made by voters in this state. This was after more than one separate attempts to legalize medical marijuana at the ballot box, both of which failed to garner the 60% threshold needed in this state to pass a current amendment to the state constitution. However, when we finally succeeded in legalizing medical marijuana here, over 70% of voters approved the initiative. If that’s not a super majority, I don’t guess what is! At first you’d sign up with a medical marijuana dentist to make an appointment to get a recommendation for medical cannabis before paying the state for a card. Now that we also have recreational cannabis legalized in the state, you are no longer forced to retain your status as a medical marijuana patient to purchase legal cannabis. However, recreational cannabis sales are taxed while medical cannabis sales are not taxed. I keep our medical marijuana card active in this state so I no longer have to pay cannabis taxes. That way all of our cannabis purchases are much cheaper than they would be otherwise, there are some states with recreational taxes that are nearly 30% in some cities as well as counties that have additional taxes beyond the state-level taxes.