Three Midwestern states may see legal weed in 2023
The year 2023 could be when a budding weed industry makes further progress in the Midwest, with talks of upcoming ballot measures and initiatives to legalize marijuana in three Midwestern states.
As of this year, 21 states and Washington D.C. have now legalized recreational use, and 31 states no longer prosecute someone for possessing small amounts of the drug. Public support for weed is on the rise; 90% of U.S. adults agree that marijuana should be legal for at least medical use, a 2021 Pew Research Center survey shows.
On a federal level, President Joe Biden has continued to grant clemency for people with marijuana or other federal drug convictions on their records since issuing a mass marijuana pardon last October. He has also directed his administration to review marijuana’s federal classification as a dangerous “Schedule 1” drug.
Recreational marijuana legalization was a hot-ticket item on five states’ ballots during last November’s midterm election, though voters only said yes in two of them: Maryland and Missouri. Legalization went into effect for adults over 21 in Maryland last month and will get instated in Missouri on July 1. Rhode Island also legalized recreational use last year, and Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky are all launching legal medical marijuana programs this year.
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We're too law-abiding and in too-sensitive jobs to have used it illegally. We are now too old to want to smoke it. But rest assured, on DAY ONE we'll be doing edibles, or maybe tinctures.
We are old. We are mostly kinda/sorta retired. We don't give a shit about norms anymore. We look forward to becoming born-again potheads!
on both sides of the aisle, so to speak. Opioid use has really gone down in Washington State since legalization. A friend of mine who had a knee replacement was off opioids in a couple of days and using TCH for pain control. He was fortunate to have an expert working at his local pot shop.
I think calling it "pot" is so cute - that's what my disapproving parents used to call it. "You're not smoking that...that POT are you?" 
We all just called it dope or weed.