There are many places where it’s already legal to grow. But yes, some states allow that. Not sure exactly whether allowed growing or if they just imported it. Takes a while to build a business relationship with a grower but not like forever.
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snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 4 months agoAre you saying they started growing preemptively before it was officially legal to be ready for the day it becomes legal?
jeffw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
They can’t import because that would involve transporting the product over state lines, which is interstate commerce, and in federal jurisdiction, where it’s still illegal. (At least, they can’t import legally, or document any importation.)
They probably … uh… fax or teleport? seeds to new grow operations that get set up between the law’s passage and implementation. I hear that stuff grows fast – like a weed!
quixotic120@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t know specifically for that state but in many states legal and medicinal weed has been overtaken by a few companies that are quickly buying each other up and rapidly expanding into other states as quickly as they can. in true American fashion the minute weed is legalized nationally we will essentially have the groundwork laid for giant weed conglomerates, the weed equivalent of walmart. keeping prices as high as possible, lowering product quality, and making the experience worse overall
when I was on the west coast a while back legal weed was cheap as fuck and great. dispensaries were all over and randomly named. I’m sure there was intense rivalries and people pushing to consolidate but you could get stuff dirt cheap that was great. nothing like what I’m seeing here on the east coast with companies like curaleaf, truelieve, etc that charge $40-60 for a gram for shit that’s just okay. I quit smoking a few years ago though, maybe it’s better now, but I doubt it
folkrav@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
If the law was coming into effect at a known date, there may just not be much interest in prosecuting going forward.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
Does Ohio not have medical marijuana for sale? Typically these stores just switch to retail + medical or open a second branch to keep them separate depending on how the state laws are written.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
And they could also import from neighboring states while their in house stuff grows depending on the laws.
seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Federal law prevents passing it over state lines.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Well, federal law prevents it period. It’s only an executive policy of making that avenue of enforcement a lower priority that keeps it from being a “thing”.
Under presidents who have had more of an interest in curtailing it, it’s been upheld that regardless of state law the federal prohibition takes precedence.
So if the feds wanted to mess with it, they wouldn’t be waiting for it to cross state lines, they’d just enforce the law as written.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No they can’t.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Not sure about Ohio, but I believe they often don’t let medical marijuana and recreational switch due to requirements that boil down to a need to limit and document the number of medical plants cultivated.
It’s not explicitly forbidden, just not able to be transferred in that way between inventory systems due to regulatory requirements.
Kinda like how hand sanitizer is just vodka with a gelling agent in it, but during the hand sanitizer shortage there needed to be emergency orders to let distilleries make hand sanitizer. Same substance, same or higher standards, but different licensing and regulatory frameworks and different licensing and regulatory agencies.
In a few years once the various agencies have gotten in the swing of things they’ll probably make some updates to simplify the laws.
Until then, you’ll probably see occasional supply issues with recreational while there’s plenty of medical.