I've noticed an interesting thing in Our Fair City of Alamogordo

[thewayne]

Keep in mind it's a very small city, 35,000 or so. And it's being held back, a council of unelected people are trying to keep it in the '50s.

New Mexico legalized recreational marijuana about a year ago.

I think we may have more licensed recreational marijuana dispensaries than churches now! And that's saying a lot! We definitely have more dispensaries than title loan locations now as some dispensaries have moved into said sites!

It's quite amazing how many dispensaries have sprung up. I've seen so many, and it seems like a new one opens every month. Next to our Arby's they put in this building with a BBQ and a title loan company, now the latter is a dispensary. A State Farm agent moved up the road a couple of miles, old site is now a dispensary.

One thing that's tricky about NM and legal recreational MJ is transport. Because we're a border state, there are several Border Patrol checkpoints. And MJ is still against federal law. It makes it hard for distributors to move product from the north to the south and vice-versa as these checkpoints are at certain choke-points on major roads.

My wife bought some chocolates, they don't do much to me that I can notice but she says they help her with her stress levels.

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[silveradept]

The Dragon Conspiracy Territory has had recreational weed for a while, and we're still in the "dispensaries everywhere!" spot, despite also having a lot of ports and other apparatus that would potentially get in the way. The cash necessity of the transactions is still an issue, but I can't see the feds deciding to take it off any time soon, given how easy it is to use marijuana as a way to prosecute specific groups.