When the city council announced plans to start construction on a cannabis dispensary in the downtown historic district, there was quite an uproar.
People got mad that this kind of business would be built among all the classic and historical buildings in that part of town.
The truth was that the property had been bulldozed, and was a pile of rubble, so any kind of new business would be an improvement. I think the main problem was an issue with cannabis itself, and some older people still hadn’t embraced the new laws. This is stunning to me, because the science is pretty clear about the benefits of using cannabis. A lot of people don’t even want to get high, they have no interest in the psychoactive properties of cannabis, they just want to use it medicinally! I am not one of those people, of course, I love smoking cannabis and not because of the medicinal properties! The point is that a plant cannot be immoral and should never be illegal, not even the cannabis plant. Backwards thinking and stupidity has held back the progress of cannabis long enough, and we are finally entering a golden era. There are more cannabis dispensaries than ever before, selling a wider variety of products, and we can’t let the old-school mentality hold us back. I am excited about this new cannabis dispensary, and the more people argue against it the more I want to support it! I will be there on the day the cannabis dispensary opens, and I hope it makes a lot of old people mad.