OT: Recreational marijuana sales begin on 12/1 in Ann Arbor

Cool 

I'm probably going to keep buying weed from the same place I've bought weed for the last 10 years.

But it is cool that I'll be able to go into a store and buy a bag

Sweet.  Also, first MGoAd that showed up when I opened this link was for “sustainable hemp” and showed a bunch of pot plants were discernibly NOT hemp

Well shit. Does this mean I no longer need to go to a sketchy house in a sketchy neighborhood and have several unpleasant conversations with people I’d never normally converse with before smoking a plant??? That SUCKS!!!

Im super jelly that Ann Arbor has all these stores. Eager to see if my city will have a store open soon

Question for someone more knowledgeable than I - If weed becomes legal on the federal level, will the employers no longer be able to ban its use?

It really bums me out that I can’t get high without fear of getting a random test.

using dope might not be the best thing you do with your time and body.....

But studies showing that marijuana use is a significant risk factor for violence have quietly piled up. Many of them weren’t even designed to catch the link, but they did. Dozens of such studies exist, covering everything from bullying by high school students to fighting among vacationers in Spain.

In most cases, studies find that the risk is at least as significant as with alcohol. A 2012 paper in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence examined a federal survey of more than 9,000 adolescents and found that marijuana use was associated with a doubling of domestic violence; a 2017 paper in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology examined drivers of violence among 6,000 British and Chinese men and found that drug use—the drug nearly always being cannabis—translated into a five-fold increase in violence

The first four states to legalize marijuana for recreational use were Colorado and Washington in 2014 and Alaska and Oregon in 2015. Combined, those four states had about 450 murders and 30,300 aggravated assaults in 2013. Last year, they had almost 620 murders and 38,000 aggravated assaults—an increase of 37 percent for murders and 25 percent for aggravated assaults, far greater than the national increase, even after accounting for differences in population growth.

Most cigarette smokers don’t die of lung cancer. But we have made it widely known that cigarettes cause cancer, full stop. Most people who drink and drive don’t have fatal accidents. But we have highlighted the cases of those who do.

We need equally unambiguous and well-funded advertising campaigns on the risks of cannabis. Instead, we are now in the worst of all worlds. Marijuana is legal in some states, illegal in others, dangerously potent, and sold without warnings everywhere.

i know the marijuana nazi's will neg me for this, so be it.  just realize that there are real costs to weed use, and in particular young users and long-time users are causing significant changes and degradations in their brain function.  i don't think we should be putting people in prison over it, either, but open your eyes to the downside.