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In Oregon There Are Now More Marijuana Shops Than Starbucks Or McDonalds
Submitted by John Vibes via TheAntiMedia.org,
In the state of Oregon, where marijuana for recreational purposes was legalized just over a month ago, there are already more retail marijuana shops than there are McDonald’s or Starbucks.
According to Oregon’s Health Authority, there are 281 marijuana businesses in the state due to the fact that there was already a vast network of medical dispensaries there. When legalization kicked in, these dispensaries were able to quickly repurpose themselves as retail outlets. This allowed the industry to grow much quicker in Oregon than it did in Colorado or Washington.
In Oregon, there were over 250 medical marijuana dispensaries that were immediately able to sell to recreational customers, while in Colorado there were just 24 retailers open on the first day of legalization — and Washington had only four.
In fact, in Oregon, the cannabis industry is already becoming as visible as major fast food corporations, with more locations in the state than both Starbucks and McDonald’s. They have 248 and 205 locations, respectively.
It is important to mention that many different businesses and owners make up the 281 marijuana shops across the state, while Starbucks and McDonald’s are individual businesses. For example, the total number of marijuana shops are not being compared to the total number of fast food or coffee shops, but to specific fast food and coffee corporations. However, it still shows how marijuana is quickly becoming a very important part of the economy and of pop culture.
According to Business Insider, Oregon already has the second-highest number of medical marijuana patients, running close behind Colorado.
The state sold over $11 million dollars worth of marijuana in the first week of legalization. The sales in Oregon in the first week actually outshined both Colorado and Washington.
In Colorado, sales reached nearly $5 million in the first week, while Washington retailers made just $2 million in that state’s first week of sales.
As with the retail locations in Colorado and Washington, many of Oregon’s shops are concentrated in major cities like Portland, with only a few locations in rural areas.
The growing marijuana industry is not only extremely lucrative, but it is also a more gender-equal environment than many other businesses. As we reported last month, there are more female executives in the marijuana industry than there are in any other industry.
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If I had my molecules teleported as many times as you, I too would want something to keep the stress in check...
Standard Disclaimer: So you weren't banging Yeoman Janice Rand every chance you got? And you saved the fucking Federation how many times?
I should thank you. It is comments like yours that keep people reading zh comments, and then they find mine, and some few accidently follow the link.
Anyway, I had to laugh, and appreciated your thought.
Hmm, dealing with Klingons and Romulans all the time WOULD get kinda stressful! :-D
Spicoli approves. Just ask MR Hand.
Open your mind and learn, take this surveyhttp://chasingthescream.com/how-much-do-you-really-know-about-the-drug-war/
Write to your congressman or directly to the drug company that manufactures marijuana and ask them to stop the manufacture of marijuana. Pretty simple solution.
Now see this:
Uploaded on Aug 15, 2010
Produced by the US Government in 1942...Interesting to learn that Dupont Chemical funded the anti- hemp / marijuana effort. This is because they had patents on new synthetic fibers and Hemp had a new machine that would put them out of business if hemp were to be used for clothes. Dupont also sold - and still does many of the chemicals to wood pulp producers... so we continue to cut down forests... when Hemp could save millions of trees, be used as an alternative bio fuel and the US could easily grow enough hemp to eliminate the need for oil... so Big oil does not want hemp legal either. Neither do the drug companies... they can't patent it. They would rather keep selling you their drugs. By keeping it illegal the lawyers, courts etc... also make a buck. You can only get high from the female flower - nobody has ever died from smoking a joint. Of course the alcohol and tobacco companies would prefer to keep their monopoly as well. So we have all the BIG Corporate players... against legalizing it. Yet if it were legalized - we would solve many issues and have a multi billion dollar hemp economy as it can be used for 1000's of products.
https://youtu.be/W0xHCkOnn-A
Once again the big corporation gets it's way due to the bribes of .gov officials.
If you can find a wrong in society it usually has Big Corporation attached to it.
You forgot to mention "Cocaine-crazed Negroes," and Chinks selling our white womyn into white slavery after smoking some opium in the den(s)!
Weed is Good!
I thought that was Greed.
Of course now with legalization Weed and Greed it seems....are good.
WTF? The FUCKHEADS are coming out of the woodwork tonight? It has nothing to do with greed and everything to do with freedom. How do you make money? Instead of making money and being productive Ive got a great idea... Lets throw all our risk takers in jail? Brilliant! Fucking Brilliant!! Now thats Greed??? WTF is the matter with people..
People are going to smoke whether you approve or not.. I dont drink, I like to smoke a bit of weed and there is nothing wrong with that.. FUCK OFF!
super size that bomber, thank you
420 Blaze it!
I have a Volcano Digital and that thing is worth every penny. I have a small titanium smoking pipe w/ titainum screens for doing dabs and what not, using a hemp wick. Currently blazing LA Chocolat.
Mixed on massive legalization especially but the treating marijuana as an illegally controlled substance has clearly has been a failed policy for 50 years. Time to try something else but I am concerned about the number of people who are reportin addiction signs which has notably jumped according to the most recent figures from the NESARC survey in the oct 21 issue of JAMA.
You cannot get addicted to Maryjane!!!!!
And you cannot halucinate from it either.... and if you smoke joint after joint after joint you will get hungry and fall asleep... oh ya you will have less pot....
And to all who disagree let's get together and I will prove it to ya....
And you're address would be.........?
(Gestapo boot tapping impatiently)
Ya I hardy doubt my .gov would care that you and I sat in the yard and got high!
You don't suppose some of those professionals face the standard coflict of interest as they define and measure hard to define and measure things like 'addiction to marijuana'.
It is rather clear that, if you define addiction as 'something producing physical withdrawal symptons', there are many fewer addictive things in the world than would keep all of the world's psychologists and psychiatrists employed.
When I got put in jail recently for months, I was an every day all day smoker for years. I was high when they arrested me. I suffered no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. Try that with alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine.
If you want to have some real fun... try it after some opiates or benzodiazepines good luck withdrawal from benzos they can kill you too, just like alcohol withdrawals can. Weed hasnt killed anyone, its safer than baby aspirin.
Rat Trap | One of the best little articles on drugs ever written!
You can sober up easy after smoking a lot of pot but becoming thin after eating a lot of McD's is a totally different story.
And the free market kills the drug smuggling trade, makes it uneconomic. Drug consumers no longer need to spend huge sums on their addiction of choice don't need to finance their habit through crime.
News at 11. Crime levels fall to record lows in Oregon.
Sorry, 1971, but now the drug pushers and cartels, who are more business savvy and more diabolical, will produce STRONGER merry-wanny to lure more clientele. Do you think they are that stew-pid, to just turn tail and walk away, with an ocean of stupidity called the American gringo, who prefers pleasure before work, who in front of children tell them loudly,"SAY NO TO DRUGS!!!!!!" and behind their backs smoke the biggest blunt around? There's a lot of money in stupidity, my friend. News at 11: Oregon is experiencing a surge in crime due to an influx of highly powerful marijuana, manufactured by cartels in South America.
So sorry, those cartels are not the bleeding edge of anything technological.
You need to spend some time on Youtube, look at the various seed grower's sites, those guys from Amsterdam who do the expeditions around the world looking for strains. "Strain Hunters", I think.
Having grown up on a farm and having farmer relatives, I have some idea of progress in normal areas by standard university research. Laughable.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/civilizations-great-counte...
Well Maryjane can only get to about 18% thc maybe a little more....now you can add chemical drugs to as which some cartels do... but then it is not maryjane any more then is it!
I agree that it should be grown for commercial sale, monitoring the chemicals/ pesticides being used to grow it with, I am sure it is not safe to smoke pot that is covered in some pesticide, this must be done for "sale"
But you should also be allowed to grow it organically in your own garden....
I don't know where you live patrickhenry61, but I have seen no sign of the crime surge where I live in Oregon. Our local sheriff is not in favor of legalization, but he knows it's inevitable. Just about everyone in the small town I live in own guns, and any criminals surging around our town will have a short career.
Marijuana and alcohol are stumbling blocks to the lesser bretheran. Whole segments of human society have been decimated by these twin evils.
Decriminilization is an option-but in no way should they receive the States imprimatur " legalization",[ taxation]
This goes for gambling as well.
So the solution is keeping it illegal especially things such as alcohol and gambling which are done by wide segments of American society? They would just be run by organized crime as they were historically done through out the 20th century.
Well the problem with decriminalization is that it does nothing to stop the black market money drug smugling gang wars with shootings in the streets.
The only way to take the money and gangwars out of the equation is to legalize it....
Read about the reason the president of Uruguay "Mujica" legalized maryjane.
However wrote this must be from WA or maybe CO.
This is like, totally misleading dude.
You're like comparing the retail outlet of an industry - dope - to a segment of an industry. You are obviously some sort of a weed racist.
Hey, I almost forgot - given the choice between a Micky D hamburger, cup of joe or joey - who - in their right mind wouldn't chose some weed?
Love articles like this - if for nothing else but that they serve to strip naked those who talk 'freedom' out one side, but call for Authoritarianism when it comes to suit their ideological preferences on what people choose to do to themselves and for themselves, out the other side...
If you're pounding beers/alcohol (and more power to you if you are), pain-killers, anti-depressants, etc., ad-nauseam, You Too are a 'drug user'. Fact is, if all drugs were made legal, crimes that are associated with illegal substances today, would basically disappear almost overnight. This is all about CONTROL, and the Control Freaks who need to get their Control-on in order to feel viable.
Wall St will soon be lobbying for legalization, you can bet on it.
You are failing to take into account that the Street is heavily involved in laundering the CIA's/Pentagon's drug money from the Afghan opium trade, et al.
If there is a market for dope , whether alcohol or weed, it is not a mafia problem, but a spiritual problem amongst the degenerates who CRAVE it.
Turn your back on God, debauch your God-given consciousness, and watch a more red-blooded people relieve you of your destiny.
Toke up you fools, go blow your brains out with the Deep States biggest money- maker [ booze]; and soon to be weed.
You all seem to bitch about the D.S. here,
You give them the bullets to shoot you with...
Smoked as a pre-teen, saw God's plan in outline form. Became MORE spiritual. Who was it that gave Adam EVERY seed-bearing plant? Went on smoking, earned a graduate degree and even became a good tax slave. Managed to have prophetic and lucid dreams, and increased my ESP abilities. Have four fine children too. Not everyone fits the propaganda mold as far as the so-called "devil weed" is concerned.
>and increased my ESP abilities.
If you put your hand on my post, can you tell me what I'm thinking?
Standard Disclaimer: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
Scroll down until you get to #6.
I find it interesting that the Church (meaning Catholicism in particular), ALWAYS deemed it necessary to kill those Natives that partook of ethnogenic plants/fungi and ban their methods of communing with God(s), not approved of by said church. What, the competition too much for YHVH?
Peyote,
Psylocibin ("Magic") Mushrooms,
Morning Glory Seeds (a weak source of LSD),
Salivia Divinorum, (Latin for 'Diviner's Salvation')
ALL Frowned upon by "Modern" society(s).
Of course, the plan to save McDonalds! Ronald McHead, and the new McGrass sandwich!
I'm kinda pissed off. I've tried quite a few drugs but the only ones I could handle were alcohol and cigarettes. MJ gave me the worst migraine ever the times I tried it, while my friends were happily high as kites. But with the newer ecigs maybe it's time to try again.
Perhaps you should have brewed it into tea, or baked some into chocolate brownies.
Aldous Huxley was correct 50-80 years ago.
I lived in Holland when drugs were a real problem...the theft was unbelievable. Now they throw more people in jail for drugs....per capitia than the US
The Shaggy and Scooby economy. Buy junk food stocks.
Will Medicare and Medicaid eventually pay for weed treatment?
Will stoner's lack of motivation to work be a diagnosable condition and thus qualify for disability and weed and munchy food subsidies?
Again, Huxley was right.
The weed will make everyone lazy and collapse the economy. Buy gold and silver to protect yourself.
1913.
Oops, that was meant to be posted in reply to someone else...
We are commenting on whether a human should be jailed for having a flower. This planet is so fucked.
Finally some good news on ZH.
You still gotta take a "piss test" for any job in Oregon...just like Colorado or Nevada. So buying and smoking/eatting is just fine---if you don't have to work for the man.
These piss test are RACIST lol... One shall not be able to aquire a piss test from someone unless he too has had to donate his golden record, and before TPTB can ask for a piss test they too must also provide!
I'm all for piss tests... Let's piss test everyone... Politicians, Wall Street, Bankers, Police, Judges, store owners, teachers, Prison Guards, and the Generall Public, and once we find out that 50% of all walks of life take drugs, 90% if we were to include the drug called Alcohol. then what do we do?
Thats it! Im going to call anyone who calls me a goldbug a racist from now on. PERFECT! Solves alot of problems.
You know, its the same old story." Oh, I have done so well smoking dope- look at me, I have a degree, am succesful, good family etc". Baloney, this isn't about YOU.
Look around you. I am from N.Y.C., now Philly. Do you see the decimation of the cities in America from a turning away of the Bible truths for hedonism?
The lower classes willingly diminish their intellectual capacities by using weed and alcohol. Polluting their bodies and distorting their authentic personalities and the ability to experience the genuine joy of the [living] God's presence and love.
Hmm, sounds like you aren't very effective about proselytizing the Christian faith, then.
I hate to inform you that there will always be people in life that wil not succeed. What one person considers hard work another does not.
Some people have drive to make a better life and others just want to sit around and collect what is owed to them and a lot are somewhere inbetween.
To put the blame on the drug is like putting the blame on the bandaid when the victum bleeds to death.
I hate to inform you that there will always be people in life that wil not succeed. What one person considers hard work another does not.
Some people have drive to make a better life and others just want to sit around and collect what is owed to them and a lot are somewhere inbetween.
To put the blame on the drug is like putting the blame on the bandaid when the victum bleeds to death.
Bible thumpers like you have caused the desturction of society. Not just Muslims. More people have died in the name of Jesus than any other religion.
You know its funny the Indians refer to the "Peace Pipe" unlike our culture the Indian people see and recognize things for exactly what they are and not what people want to scare you into thinking it is. Dont knock it unless you've tried it, its not for everyone but for sure its for some!
Drugs and Alcohol don't make you feel good, they just make you feel not so bad. They make a bad situation better without solving the problem which is not a good thing.
They do have their purpose and I've done my fair share of the green and the grain, never the hard stuff. Gave everything up quite awhile ago except the occasional glass of wine with dinner.
It should all be legalized and take the money we spend fighting the war on drugs and put it to rehab, AA (alcohol is far and away the biggest gateway to all drugs) and alternatives treatments.
There's no drug or drink that I've taken that even comes close to a healthy active lifestyle with real whole food. The best part of a healthy lifestyle is you can easily get up the next day and do it all over again. Not so much with drugs and alcohol.
"The best part of a healthy lifestyle is you can easily get up the next day and do it all over again. Not so much with drugs and alcohol."
I agree that I dont feel good after drinking all night which is why I dont drink or do drugs all night. The only thing that I feel after smoking a joint at night is refreshed in the morning? Im up 5:00 am every morning.. Thats what people dont get about weed? Its good! Im never hung over. Weed gets a bad wrap because it gets lumped in with everything else. It is what it is, its never killed anyone and its GOOD!
I dont drink or use any prescriptions, I use weed. I smoke a little, vaporize a little and use vegetable glycerine tincture.... Natures way... Im really hardcore! and it's great! Im up early and ready to go! not because I feel like shit?
Wow72,
I hear you, no hangovers whatsover with weed. I've seen with many people that smoke weed they drink a lot less alcohol or nothing at all, which is good. Plus, you really don't want to drive, especially if you're really stoned and it doesn't make you violent. It really is rediculous that it's outlawed like it is in some states.
Don't get me started on the nonviolent drug offenders in jail that were caught in some state like GA with a joint and sent to jail, while drunk drivers get probabation and go to rehab paid for by the state.
Forgot to add that I'm a huge advocate of marijuana in place of pharmaceutical drugs in many cases of illnesses, cancer, etc. The side effects are almost negligible compared to the pharma drugs that are prescribed.
"For example, the total number of marijuana shops are not being compared to the total number of fast food or coffee shops, but to specific fast food and coffee corporations."
Exactly: Again, showing the stupidity of ZH articles. Going for the drama, not the intelligenece. This is a comparison which has exactly no significance. What is the point of this article, anyway? So, people in Oregon are smoking a lot of MJ. Wow.