I really think pot should be legal...but I find the smell of smoked pot so rancid I wish their would be a big push to move away from that form of consumption. Want to get high? Go ahead, just don't light a stink bomb off as you do
When I go to the pot stores in Massachusetts and California, most people just buy regular pot. There's plenty of edibles and vaping concentrate available, it's just that most people want to smoke the flower.
But some people still smoke pot.
Nope. THC intake with smoking is (pretty much) consistent across people and the dosing feedback from intake to effect is much shorter, whereas edibles hit differently depending on a lot of specific factors (body weight, how much one has eaten/drunk) which means that especially in "social get-high situations" edibles don't really work as intended. Not to mention it's easy to overdose on edibles.
And that will get an average person pretty solidly high for several hours.
Contrasted with the cost of alcohol, this is dirt cheap.
...does not exist, as it is still banned by federal law.
Federal legality will probably drive prices up compared to the current “technically a major crime subject to run, invest in, or play any leadership role in a major business in, though that's not currently actively enforced” [0] condition as the current condition encourages lots of small operators while preventing consolidation, without the high added risk premium of an actively enforced probibition.
[0] because drug kingpin laws apply to marijuana
Therefore, if you are over 21 years of age and can prove that with official documentation, you can walk into any of hundreds of official retail establishments in several states that are publicly advertised on billboards and purchase marijuana with cash. As long as you do not operate a motor vehicle under the influence or cause a public nuisance, there will be no legal consequences of that action.
Furthermore, you can buy stocks in companies that grow marijuana for sale and distribution in the United States. If it were really illegal, why are companies that do that and pay taxes on the commerce allowed to operate and be publicly traded on the stock exchanges?
The thing is, the drug kingpin statute has a long statute ot limitations, and there is no federal policy making current violations relating to marijuana not criminal, only a law prohibiting the executive branch from spending money prosecuting marinuana-related offenses related to medical use consistent with state law which the executive branch has also mostly treated as applying to other use permitted by state law. But the boundaries of the legal policy are somewhat fuzzy, and were it to be repealed tomorrow, there would be no bar to the Feds rounding up people who had been openly engaging in the marijuana trade and charging them under drug laws, including the drug kingpin law, subject to the applicable statutes of limitations. And/or filing forfeiture actions (civil and/or criminal; though the latter requires criminal charges against the individual) against property used in or derived from the business.
The risk does affect the who enters the industry, who supplies the industry, and how people in and around the industry conduct business.
> the federal government would have to deploy the military on American soil to police states that have legalized marijuana
AFAIK, the DEA, FBI, and other federal law, and the people who have openly been conducting marijuana business don't take that much effort to identify and round up. The military would not be required to do policing, though DOJ’s Criminal Division might want to get some military JAG lawyers assigned on temporary duty to handle the caseload surge.
In college, I liked smoking up from time to time if someone offered. I'd get incredibly high and have a great time. Now that it's legal here in Canada I thought "why not try some THC chocolate?". I ordered it online, had a piece and waited.
It sucked. The bar contained THC and a little bit of CBD and nothing else. I didn't really get the kind of high I remember enjoying in college, just a light buzz and felt sleepy. Honestly the best part was the chocolate, which was super high quality.
I still haven't tried smoking pot again. But I suspect I would have a much better time if I did.
Get a quality vaporizer and enjoy the full bouquet without the harmful combustion byproducts.
more like: "wanted to get high on a nice day out"