The Green Thread: Marijuana in the states

[Mopsus]

Maryland appears likely to be the next state to approve recreational.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-maryland-voters-recreational-marijuana-20220401-4gonjdq6orc47cyzadgfb3ctlm-story.html

Hopefully this encourages Pennsylvania and Delaware to follow suit. One has to assume that as more states legalize it, their neighbors will see that it does not increase social harm, and that they’re leaving a lot of tax revenue on the table by forcing their residents to drive to neighboring states to buy.

[Mopsus]

South Dakota to vote on cannabis legalization (again) this November

https://twitter.com/tomangell/status/1529559639112687617?cxt=HHwWgoCxgemYi7oqAAA...

Are activists confident that this referendum, if it passes, won’t also get overturned?

[Mopsus]

The failure in South Dakota is strange. Anyone have any ideas?

[Mopsus]

Here's a county map of Amendment 3 in Missouri:

https://twitter.com/missouri_mapper/status/1590739918929952769?s=46&t=MiXiJt...
*Note: New Madrid County actually voted NO on Amendment 3 (No 53.63%). For some reason, when the author of this tweet produced the map, the results showed Amendment 3 passing.

Highest Support
• Kansas City (77.83%)
• St. Louis City (73.00%)
• Jackson County (including Kansas City): 67.51%
• Platte (62.34%)
• Boone (62.25%)
• Clay (61.36%)
• Jackson County (without Kansas City): 60.76%
• St. Louis County (58.96%)
• St. Charles (54.99%)
• Jefferson (54.57%)
• Cass (53.72%)
• Greene (52.50%)
• Johnson (51.89%)
• Ray (51.78%)
• Buchanan (51.43%)
• St. Francois (50.53%)

Highest Opposition
• Barton (71.40%)
• Wright (69.80%)
• Shelby (69.32%)
• Osage (69.24%)
• Harrison (67.69%)
• Douglas (67.66%)
• Macon (67.35%)
• Mercer (65.92%)
• Dent (65.90%)
• Sullivan (65.83%)
• Chariton (65.68%)
• Maries (65.34%)
• Gasconade (65.14%)
• Dade (65.01%) 

Living in a rural county, I heard people blame the “big cities” (St. Louis, Kansas City, and Columbia)  for Amendment 3 passing, but what really made the difference were the rural areas: NO ran 10-20 points behind Trump across the board there, which is the reason this vote wasn’t just a repeat of the past three presidential elections

Nice to see it pass in Greene County, too.

[Mopsus]

Fun Fact: After tonight, states where marijuana is legal hold a majority in the electoral college.



The American people have spoken.