Support for Marijuana Legalization Continues to Rise

[workinclasszero]

Support for Marijuana Legalization Continues to Rise
October 12, 2016By Liam Dalton



http://wonkwire.com/2016/10/12/support-for-marijuana-legalization-continues-to-rise/

[NightWatcher]

1. In 2012 medicinal cannabis got 58% approval in Fl, this year its 78%

It needs 60% to pass. I don't know how accessible it will be to sick people after it passes however, because the legislation is very restrictive.

[Achilleaze]

4. I've seen it make a huge positive difference

for many people who were undergoing cancer therapy, or who were suffering from PTSD. That evidence got me to change my opinion.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I wish it would hurry up.

I want to be able to smoke legally in my old age.

[workinclasszero]

3. Same here but I don't know if

I will live long enough.

Should have been legal decades ago.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. I just want to be able to sit in my rocking chair and get high.

Is that so much to ask? But this is Missouri and we will probably be the last to go down. Kansas is at least close to Colorado. The problem with that is that the Highway Patrol and watching the cars coming from Colorado like a hawk.

[Glamrock]

6. It'll probably happen during Clinton's presidency.

Once the feds decriminalize it, the GOP states will be more than happy to have the tax revenue. After running against it for a couple election cycles, of course.

[Calculating]

7. Sadly I live in Utah

I've pretty much given up hope of living a life of freedom unless I move. It does make me happy to see other states coming out of the dark ages on this issue though.

[NaturalHigh]

8. LOL...I live in Oklahoma.

I share your pain.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. Yep. Missouri is the same. nt

Although lots of people here smoke.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. When I lived in Utah you had to go to a govt. store to buy booze.

Is it still like that?

They used to say you couldn't buy a drink but you could buy a drunk because you had to take your bottle to a private club and drink the whole thing there. You couldn't have an open bottle in your car.

But I was in Bartlesville, Ok once summer and you could buy beer at a bar but you couldn't buy drinks. You had to take an unopened bottle to a private club to drink hard liqueur. And you couldn't dance in a beer bar. You could only dance in a private club.

Weird old Blue Laws.

[Calculating]

12. Yep

They're all about private business, except for the state run liquor stores of course. They also do lots of absolutely batshit crazy stuff like this. I cannot wait till I can move out of this theocratic state.

http://www.sltrib.com/home/4408929-155/new-eccles-theater-restaurant-will-usher
People who are standing on the balcony at the Eccles Theatre can look down into the new Encore Bistro and see the area where servers would be pouring alcohol and mixing drinks. DABC said that violates the state's "Zion Curtain" law. The restaurant is open, but not serving liquor until it can install a ceiling over the cubicle-sized liquor-dispensing area, pictured at the top left.

When the Eccles Theater opens in three weeks in downtown Salt Lake City, the state-of-the-art project will have one of the most unique dining features in the country — a "Zion Ceiling."

Like its well-known sibling, the "Zion Curtain," the ceiling will prevent patrons standing on the theater's sweeping balconies from seeing alcoholic drinks being mixed and poured inside the 40-seat restaurant in the Grand Lobby.

Officials from the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (DABC) have been working with theater architects for about a year to ensure that the Encore Bistro has a liquor dispensing area that met all state requirements.
But it wasn't clear that a ceiling was needed until a few weeks ago, when a DABC compliance officer made his final inspection, said Cami Munk, communications manager for the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts. The need to install the ceiling "became apparent once the DABC could see the actual environment and upper views to the mixing booth," Munk said.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. Oh, that's funny.

I really miss Utah. It's a lot more fun than Missouri.

I really did love being able to drive up into the canyons in the summer. And out into the desert. And I had some really good friends there.

We used to go into the church bookstores and ask for banned books. So juvenile. We had so much fun.