A law allowing Ohioans over 21 years old to purchase legal recreational marijuana went into effect last week, and some who oppose the measure are naturally predicting a Refeer Madness-type future for the Buckeye State. Legal and accepted are clearly two different things. Here, once again, cars come to the rescue.
The Republican legislature consciously avoided efforts to create a framework for marijuana sales in the state for four months, so now that it’s legal, there’s no place to buy it (except for in Michigan, which is where a lot of Ohio folks buy their weed right now, despite transportation across state lines being a federal crime). It was a last ditch effort to put off the will of the people for as long as possible, according to ABC. This clip comes to us from Heartland Signal, a news org covering the midwest. Aubree Adams is the director of anti-weed organization Every Brain Matters, and she has some fairly creative concerns about legal pot.
Of course, none of that is true, as anyone who lives in a legal state can attest. While there is some evidence that Marijuana can exacerbate pre-existing mental health conditions, it is far less addictive and less destructive than alcohol, which kills 140,000 Americans every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Here in Michigan, we’ve had legal marijuana since December of 2019, and no marijuana bomb has gone off here (unless you count the tax revenue bomb). While residents of both states will insist Ohio and Michigan are nothing alike, let me assure you they are the exact same fucking place. Flat, filled with corn and distressed Rust Belt cities, with nothing better to do than to take college football personal and rehash the Toledo War, all while the actual worst state in the union, Indiana, goes unchecked.
I’m going to reach across the border and help my fellow midwesterners with all the experience of a two-time cancer patient and former hooligan in order to share the best cars to create your own weed bomb in the form of hot boxing with your besties. Once you can legally buy it, of course 😉
And just to be clear: cars serving as hot boxes are to remain stationary during and after the smoke sesh. Driving intoxicated is never cool, no matter what substance we’re talking about.