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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Indiana too. Technically northern but sometimes we’re not sure.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 0 points 22 minutes ago

Indiana is the Alabama of the Midwest.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

When illinois legalized marijuana I was like this is awesome because all the states are around us will not take the stick up their but about that no matter how much money flows into our state. I mean wisconsin is the liberal neighbor.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 27 minutes ago

Fortunately Wisconsin has had the UP for weed for quite a while, and the market up there is so heavily saturated that it’s cheap as hell even with the road trip factored in. Half of Wisconsin has billboards saying shit like “legal weed is how close??” And then the distance to the dispensary being advertised. Southern Wisconsin is doing better now that states around those borders are legal, though, so yay!

It’s so absurd that it’s not legal here, when it’s illegal on paper only due to widespread availability close to the borders. We very quickly lost our chance to be major players in the industry regionally. Like there’s no massive tax money to be had from legalizing here now because they would still be competing with states that have a mature market and thus significantly lower prices. So dumb and shortsighted.