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[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 34 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

If weed is legal drinking goes down.

I wonder if it’s people living in weed “dry” states that are the current outliers.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Well here in the Netherlands it was Covid that did in the student drinking culture and apparently it just never bounced back.

[–] liuther9@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Its most probably also inflation. Now i spend 2-3x more

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This is exactly it. South Carolina is full of sloppy alcoholics and the alcohol lobby spends a lot of money to keep it that way. They'll be the last in the country to legalize.

[–] openchan@piefed.social 6 points 6 hours ago

Texas is always in a race for last place too

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

That's absolutely part of it. Here in Wisconsin the Tavern League has outsized influence and we still don't have legal weed and we lead the country in drinking. Although I've been seeing more and more of those THC drinks. I'm not sure what kind of loophole those slip through, but they seem popular.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Damn y'all don't even have medical, always thought you guys would follow us here in Michigan relatively quickly as our states have very similar politics but I didn't think about big beer lobbying.

Is there a line of dispensaries on the border in illinois then like we have here for all the ohio and indiana people coming to buy weed?

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, at least there’s one set up in South Beloit. It’s more expensive than Michigan though and has a much stricter limit on what you can buy as a non resident. We went that route before, but the grey area stuff I can get at the grocery store is much more convenient. I’d do Michigan but it’s a bit farther of a drive than Illinois. Maybe I’ll grab stuff next time I head to pictured rocks

Why don’t we have it? Wisconsin got gerrymandered to hell for a decade. The Supreme Court is now left leaning and is breaking the gerrymander, so hopefully we can get legalization of some sort soon

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They're derived from hemp, which became federally legal a few years back. It's the same chemical (d9-THC) that's found in cannabis indica and sativa, but it's present in such low quantities in hemp that it takes wayyyyyy more plant matter to extract enough.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

You'd think it would be the active ingredient that is regulated, not the actual plant.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Weed drinks and gummies, largely. I can pick them up at woodmans in the liquor section, though come November I may need to stock up

Hemp loophole

[–] openchan@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The hemp loophole

Brought to you by a senate who didnt read their own bill in 2018

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

man do i miss woodmans