Monday, October 12, 2015

Oregon Legalizes Pot ... Ho, hum

USA Today carries a story about the legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon, with this headline:
Voices: Ore. legalizes pot, and nobody cares
Nobody cares because much of Oregon has been in a drug-induced stupor for the past half century. I moved there from CA in 1967 and it was true even then.

Only the lack of ambition which characterizes heavy marijuana use kept OR from being the first or second state to legalize pot. Those "honors" going to Colorado and Washington, respectively.

OR west of the Cascades is a depressed person's idea of hell. It has gloomy, rainy skies for nearly 8 months a year - think Twin Peaks in the mist. The 60% of the state east of Bend is nearly unpopulated - uninteresting, undeveloped and empty. It's an odd state.