Maybe you forgot, but our neighbors to the north voted to legalize pot last November. Along with Colorado, Washington has made the possession and consumption of marijuana legal for individuals over 21 years of age.
As you can image all the pot heads up there in WA were over joyed at the prospect of pot cafes and smoking a joint on the street outside their favorite concert hall. But before that can happen the state must figure out how the heck to legalize a drug still on the Federal Government’s list of criminal substances!
Here is a great article in today’s New York Times by guest commentator Bill Keller on this very subject.
Oregonians should be paying close attention to our neighbors actions to the north, we may be faced with the same task very soon…
This article appears in May 23-29, 2013.
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I’m pretty sure most of the “pot heads” in Washington understand that the law does not allow smoking in public. And there is nothing for the state to figure out about legalizing cannabis – the law is already enacted. Finally, I find no link to the NYT. You musta been pretty high when you wrote this one.
The image is the link to the NYT story. If you read that story, you will see the challenges WA is facing in this process…