Cannabis

[Bunty]

For what it's worth. we spent the weekend in Dallas and i smelled weed as often or more often than I do in OKC. the hotel lobby, outside, the hallways. The streets around town and bars. we commented on it that the way it smells around Dallas you would think they had Rec marijuana.

No wonder why. The Dallas area has more than twice as many people around to smoke up the air with pot than OKC. Then compare that to small town Oklahoma where there are too few people around to smoke up the air with pot. Many small towners as too conservative to smoke pot, thinking it's for low class druggies. So, in Stillwater, the big complaint about smelling smoke is related to the bars that still allow smoking cigarettes, such as George's.

[Pete]

OKC man arrested by the FBI and charged with distributing 2,700 pounds of black market cannabis across state lines in one truckload.

Alleged is that this man used a fake Amazon delivery van to buy weed at local grows, took it in bulk to a stash house where it was repackaged, taken by van again to his granite business warehouse, then loaded into a semi which was then pulled over in Indiana.

Sounds like it's been going on for a while as the probable cause filing indicates a truck has been loaded up about once a week.


Stories like this will only add fuel to the movement to clamp down on this industry.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news...i/70100529007/

[Plutonic Panda]

^^^ like it wasn’t being done before either. All we have now is crime being brought to light because of legalization not that it wasn’t happening before.

[Pete]

^^^ like it wasn’t being done before either. All we have now is crime being brought to light because of legalization not that it wasn’t happening before.

We didn't have big, open grow facilities all over the state before the law changed.

Medical cannabis may be legal in Oklahoma but it's spawned a ton of criminal activity. You might not agree with the law but as a society, you don't get to pick and choose which laws you want to obey without consequences.

[Plutonic Panda]

We didn't have big, open grow facilities all over the state before the law changed.

Medical cannabis may be legal in Oklahoma but it's spawned a ton of criminal activity. You might not agree with the law but as a society, you don't get to pick and choose which laws you want to obey without consequences.

But you don’t think that our current laws have anything to do with bringing what was already happening to light? I do. How could it not. Maybe a new element has been added but I don’t think it’s fair to draw any negative conclusions from medical or recreational without proper context.

[Pete]

But you don’t think that our current laws have anything to do with bringing what was already happening to light? I do. How could it not. Maybe a new element has been added but I don’t think it’s fair to draw any negative conclusions from medical or recreational without proper context.

No. I think our laws have allowed huge production which is being shipped out of state illegally and a bunch of other crimes.

2,700 pounds was in one truckload and the filing said the shipping was happening once a week.


Interesting to note they weren't even tracking this guy until the feds came across a truckload in Arkansas and then the driver showed the GPS of where he picked up and it was this guy's warehouse. State law enforcement had no clue, so what does that tell you?

[Bunty]

In most of the western 1/3 or Colorado and in most of the eastern half of Colorado, marijuana, including growing it, is illegal in any form. As a result, I wonder if illegal growing operations go on there. If they don't, it shows you how both the Oklahoma Legislature and SQ820 promoters did a poor job dealing with what resulted from the presence of legal medical marijuana as prescribed under SQ788. Maybe Colorado has a smart way of keeping marijuana under control where it is legal. Anyway, I don't know of a more acceptable or better way than to go with how the state of Colorado deals with marijuana. Going my majorities in localities, both the people who want it legal and those who didn't were well accommodated.

[TheTravellers]

Once again, the doctors we used for our last renewal are out of business (first set of docs got out of the business during COVID, who knows when this one did). Anybody have any recommendations? If we have to go in, someplace near NW 36th/May would be handy, otherwise by text or video is fine, thanks...

[barrettd]

Once again, the doctors we used for our last renewal are out of business (first set of docs got out of the business during COVID, who knows when this one did). Anybody have any recommendations? If we have to go in, someplace near NW 36th/May would be handy, otherwise by text or video is fine, thanks...

You might ask your local dispensary. They usually have a few recommendations, and there are several online that are reputable.

[gjl]

Google Docs of Cannabis. 5929 N May Ave STE 204. You can do it with them all through a face time call. I think there are cheaper places around though. Supposed to be a place at 2501 NW 10th that is cheap to get a card or renewal.

[TheTravellers]

Thanks, I found Elevate Holistics, will probably go with them.

[TheTravellers]

Interesting study concludes that OK is oversupplied by a huge amount...

https://oklahoma.gov/omma/about/supp...and-study.html

[Bill Robertson]

Interesting study concludes that OK is oversupplied by a huge amount...

https://oklahoma.gov/omma/about/supp...and-study.html

Oh well. Maybe the growers/suppliers should have actively backed recreational.

[BoulderSooner]

Oh well. Maybe the growers/suppliers should have actively backed recreational.

that wouldn't change the state being oversupplied

[FighttheGoodFight]

I mean we are staring down this being federally legal within 10 years. If Oklahoma is set up to be a growing state it could be a national seller.

[Urbanized]

^^^^^^^^
It already IS a national seller. Production is an estimated 64x in-state licensed user consumption level, and legal consumption is literally everywhere in this state. That excess product is going SOMEWHERE, and it’s not just Texas.

[Pete]

^^^^^^^^
It already IS a national seller. Production is an estimated 64x in-state licensed user consumption level, and legal consumption is literally everywhere in this state. That excess product is going SOMEWHERE, and it’s not just Texas.

And then there is the small matter that moving weed out of state is highly illegal and usually involves the worst sort of criminals.

[FighttheGoodFight]

And then there is the small matter that moving weed out of state is highly illegal and usually involves the worst sort of criminals.

Yes. I would prefer to make this federally legal and get some of this type of criminal activity gone. I am sure some will still exist but nothing on the scale that is now. Embarrassing.

[GoGators]

that wouldn't change the state being oversupplied

Yes it would. It would have increased the potential customer base legally able to buy it by several million people.

[BoulderSooner]

Yes it would. It would have increased the potential customer base legally able to buy it by several million people.

lol not really pretty much everyone that wants to partake in Oklahoma already does

[FighttheGoodFight]

lol not really pretty much everyone that wants to partake in Oklahoma already does

Eh I think you would see more sales if out of towners could partake. All the casinos, Broken bow Texas owners. Would it completely empty the over supply? Doubtful.

[Bill Robertson]

Yes it would. It would have increased the potential customer base legally able to buy it by several million people.

It definitely would increase sales some. I know 12 to 15 co-workers that can't get a card and won't risk anyone living in their household to get a card. And we're a very small facility. There have to be thousands of people in our situation.

[GoGators]

lol not really pretty much everyone that wants to partake in Oklahoma already does

I believe there are a few people who live outside of the state of Oklahoma.

There is 1 single metro an hour and half south of the border that has twice the population of the entire state of Oklahoma who would love to help us with our current over supply problem. Unfortunately there is no legal way for them to do that. And that's just one single point on a very large map.

[chssooner]

lol not really pretty much everyone that wants to partake in Oklahoma already does

I love myopic POVs...