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For some reason the state of Nevada underestimated the demand that would be generated by recreationally legal weed. Alcohol distributors appear to be at fault rather than it being an issue of cultivator supply. There are hundreds of growers with crops ready to go but due to an agreement with the state's alcohol distributors, for the first 18 months of legalization only they are allowed to transport weed from cultivation centers to stores. Since the law went into effect on July 1st the state has only received about half a dozen applications for a transport license.
Nevada officials have declared a state of emergency over marijuana: There's not enough of it.
Since recreational pot became legal two weeks ago, retail dispensaries have struggled to keep their shelves stocked and say they will soon run out if nothing is done to fix a broken supply chain.
"We didn't know the demand would be this intense," Al Fasano, cofounder of Las Vegas ReLeaf, said Tuesday. "All of a sudden you have like a thousand people at the door....We have to tell people we're limited in our products."
In declaring a state of emergency late last week, the state Department of Taxation warned that "this nascent industry could grind to a halt."
As bad as that would be for marijuana consumers and the pot shops, the state has another concern: tax revenue. A 10% tax on sales of recreational pot — along with a 15% tax on growers — is expected to generate tens of millions of dollars a year for schools and the state's general fund reserves.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday July 13 2017, @07:36PM (8 children)
I'll put it this way: If that happens, it would be the first time pot had ever killed somebody.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday July 13 2017, @07:51PM
I wonder what happens in the common case of someone having cannabis and other drugs in their system (especially alcohol). Half a murder charge?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:53PM (3 children)
Not quite true.
Quite aside from drug-inspired bad decisions, it has been discovered that pot OD is actually a thing. I forget the exact symptom list, by hyperthermia features - and yes, it can kill.
Go check out emergency room information in states that have made the big leap - Washington has good data on it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @10:07PM (1 child)
That sounds more like rare genetic conditions resulting in problems. You don't tell people to watch out for the Lobster cause not that many people are allergic to it. You don't regulate peanuts either.
This is the best I can find for your assertion and it basically says you're wrong, there is no such data about hyperthermia from MJ alone: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/15563659609013773 [tandfonline.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @10:18PM
copy-paste of the abstract:
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 14 2017, @12:04AM
The most likely way to die from a pot overdose, is to be standing next to a fork lift driven by some fool high on pot, and a bale of Mary Jane falls off the forklift, crushing you to death. That might be considered an "overdose". FFS, people have been smoking this stuff for forever, and no one has been able to document a case of someone dying of cannabis overdose. If it were happening, the DEA would trot the story out as part of their propaganda effort.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Friday July 14 2017, @01:27AM (2 children)
Not true - plenty of people die as a result of pot use, if not directly by the pot itself.
Most alcohol-related deaths are not people literally dying from drinking too much alcohol (though that does of course happen). Mostly, they are due to the things that people do when under the influence of alcohol - drive cars, operate heavy machinery, play with guns, get into fights etc.
Similarly, people do dumb things when under the influence of drugs. Where I live (Victoria, Australia), 41% of people killed in road accidents over the past 5 years had (non-alcohol) drugs in their system - 18% of those were affected by THC.
Links:
https://www.tac.vic.gov.au/road-safety/tac-campaigns/drug-driving [vic.gov.au]
http://www.caradvice.com.au/407556/drugs-responsible-for-more-victorian-road-fatalities-than-alcohol-for-third-year-running/ [caradvice.com.au] (Drug-drivers have now overtaken drink-drivers in Australia. this one mostly talks about Ice, which is what Meth is called in Australia. It notes that drug-drivers are significantly over-represented in random testing and fatalities compared to their proportion across society)
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Friday July 14 2017, @01:29AM (1 child)
Clarification - 18% of all road deaths in Victoria over the past 5 years involved people with THC in their system. My earlier post implied it was 18% of 41% (i.e. 7.38%).
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Friday July 14 2017, @12:42PM
Define "in their system"... THC stays in the system a long time, that doesn't necessarily mean they were under the influence at the time..
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