Recreational, or adult use, cannabis will be getting a vote this March and it’ll pass if all the stoners remember to show up to the polls.

Recreational, or adult use, cannabis will be getting a vote this March and it’ll pass if all the stoners remember to show up to the polls.


Kevin, who was saved by challenges to the title from having the initiative up for a vote on his ballot, set a March 7 special election vote for State Question 820.


This is great news for the nearly 10 percent of Oklahomans who renew their pay-for-play cannabis licenses every two years and even better news for the other 90 percent of the state when it comes to freedom of access. Better still for travelers from out of state who have been hearing the buzz about the thriving local culture (and not just cannabis). The current licensing charade now amounts to a 21st-century version of drinking clubs in dry counties. Join the club, get the rewards of cheap and plentiful products. Shun the club, suffer the consequences if caught.


But just as the vast majority of the state of Oklahoma has moved beyond the issue of legal liquor by the drink, it should also just put the concept of licensed cannabis use in the rearview.


President Joe Biden has also advanced the idea of federal pardons for simple cannabis possession (which accounts for a miniscule number of federal inmates) while urging governors to do the same for state convictions. We’ll believe it when cannabis is rescheduled, but for now it remains a federal crime.


When the line between whether you get sent on your way with your stash or get put behind bars is a matter of a couple hundred bucks and a piece of plastic, you have to accept the program (which has had four years to evolve) for what it really is — a class separation to equal access of the same substance based on means.


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