Americans can’t stand each other, but they love their weed.
On election night, marijuana was the runaway winner. Here—where Eaze deliveries reportedly rocketed 17% on Tuesday—the political story was a complicated progress narrative.
If the plant indeed experienced “market-moving implications” on a national level, here the victories are less epic, but no less crucial.
The Hill/L.A. Times/California NORML
- “Their voices were unmistakable and emphatic,” according to The Hill, a center-right media outlet. “Majorities of Americans decided in favor of every marijuana-related proposition placed before them—a clean sweep.”
- California voters took on 38 ballot measures in 36 cities. An easy majority of cash-strapped municipalities approved the varied tax ordinances.
- Resistance to establishing local cannabis industries remained stubborn in backwaters like the ironically named Commerce and in Sonoma, where wine folk will make Hatfields and McCoys of us yet.
Quick Hits
- Here is the answer to the question Should we expect meaningful movement soon on Oregon’s interstate commerce proposal?
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