Marijuana is Just As Abundant As Ever

As sometimes happens, I've been delayed in departing, so ignore my earlier goodnight. Goodnight again now, just to cover my basses.

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It was recently brought to my attention, by a friend who follows such things, that marijuana is just as abundant as it was in Oklahoma, er, back in a day I might have followed such things.

Yes, it's still illegal here (never mind the unenforced Federal Tax illegality thing); it's ubiquitous nevertheless. Good stuff, good prices, too, usually, so I'm told, compared to back when, ahem, my friends were doing it.

However, this person complained, the market is still Underground (underground because "black" would be rasssissst) and, therefore, buyer, you're stuck. He was displeased with his purchase of some cannabis. The particular descriptors I have not heard in a long while. Ditch weed. Moldy. Ineffective. Even (the horror!) ineffective at achieving one's mellow. What are you going to do? Call the police?

Right now, right over the line, on the other end of the state, okay, 'way 'way 'way out there on the panhandle, you can cross into Colorado and (so I am given to understand) partake as liberally as you can afford, as long as you can fake a claim to a headache or the sniffles. (Medical marijuana. Right.)

But here. Different universe. States as experiments. Yeah. Well, any thinking person would rather be in Oklahoma than Colorado. But, in any case, I'll bet few Coloradishes any longer have to put up with moldy, headache-inducing ditch weed. Viva markets, as free as they can be, considering.

But, then, Colorado had Alcohol Repeal and Liquor by the Drink long before Oklahoma got that "progressive." So, I expect, sometime by mid-next-century, Oklahoma can properly grow hemp again.

This is important. Not for the dope.

We're going to need a lot of sturdy rope.

And so, adieu.