Let's see, uh, upbeat euphoric vibes. I like that. And, uh, take half of one and see how you feel. I'm not doing that.

Ah, okay. So 45 to 590 minutes to take effect. That is enough time. Okay.

Oh, there's so sour.

Take that YouTube monetization. Hi, hello, news horses. Here is some more of the news news. You know how people get, um, hi, we love getting high. Don't we folks? And the government knows this about us. They know.

They know the government knows. As of this episode, 38 states have legalized cannabis for medicinal use, along with three inhabited US territories and the district of Columbia. Additionally, 23 states as well as Guam and DC have legalized cannabis just for the purposes of hanging around and getting really stoned.

Eight more states have declined to go for full legalization, but have at least decriminalized most or all pot related offenses.

In 2014, Congress passed the Rohrbacher FAR amendment as part of an omnibus spending bill. While this didn't change the federal legal status of cannabis, it prohibits the Justice Department from spending any funds to interfere with the state's implementation of medical weed laws.

Big picture, the federal government agreed to get out of the way of states and let them make decisions on this stuff for themselves.

That law has to be renewed each fiscal year to remain in effect is currently active through September 2023, the current month and year.

Congratulations to laws and months and years. So with all of this movement in the last decade or so, the US should be well on its way to become a stoner's paradise.

Like the first half of a Cheach and Chong movie before the local highway cops figure out what they're up to or an ad for Cheach and Chong weed gummies under every single post on Twitter.

It's everywhere. And culturally we have seen a major shift in terms of pot uses mainstream cultural acceptability.

While the archetypal pot smoker used to be a lazy, slovenly slacker with zero motivation like knocked up Seth Rogen.

Today's pot smoker is a sexy, ambitious go getter who's coming to steal your girl like the fablement Seth Rogen.

But despite weed being so much more acceptable and available in more varieties and assorted products than ever before, not all of the promises we were made about decriminalization and legalization have actually come to pass.

And that's what today's episode is all about weed legal weed to be specific and to be more specific or how is the legal weed industry doing in America buckle in for this hard hitting in depth.

Oh my god. It is kicking in. It's kicking in too much. It's kicking in too much. It's kicking in too much. It's kicking in too much.

Am I bleeding or sweating?

It's kicking in too much.

Checking in with legalized weed.

I should watch Eon Flux.

You guys remember that show?

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