https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/15/minnesota-recreational-cannabis-sales-hit-150m-one-year-in/
The $150 number suggests before the State legalized and taxed and regulated the trade, a hell of a lot of Minnesotans were breaking the law.
It is similar to the nation's experment with Constitutional prohibition of alcoholic drinks, during the early 20th Century. And the repeal because people kept drinking, only it was illegal then to do so.
What the good sign in things is, government nanny state stuff gets ignored, and citizen judgment that way is a solid thing for Libertarians in particular. There today are Flock camera concerns, where readers not familiar with the groundswell objection should search = flock camera unrest
The success in Minnesota of mj legalization is no surprise at Crabgrass, having lived through parallel but earlier legalization in Washington State, with Seattle going from a friendship network thing where someone knew a dealer, to having retail stores. Sanity replacing untaxed, men with guns stuff with licenses and tax income streams. If people do it, legalizing and taxing is best. Tabacco is taxed so high that many have ceased smoking it, with the lung cancer risk being a parallel information channel designed to discourage that practice.
Having in Seattle cleaned glass bongs with salt and rubbing alcohol to keep the tar down, and thinking that's what bubbles through the water is what you lungs get, was an incentive to quit. But there was a time * * *
One wonders about practices in nations still aggressive in regulating/criminalizing mj, which really is not a gateway drug as the disliking fraction of people may believe, having been propagandized into the belief.
What the propaganda did, is make a minor gateway effect boost, because people smoking mj said, "They're bullshitting us," and that led to experimentation which likely would have not happened absent propaganda mention of other drugs.
It is as if there was somebody (CIA or others) motivated to get people to transition to more dangerously addictive drugs, since the CIA in IndoChina and later Afghanistan needed the drug trade income to finance black-op shenanigans that no sane government financing mechanism would tolerate. MKULTRA and such. That being its own story where much is online about speculation where definitive admissions are absent and unpublished online.
Legalizing mj has been a sane thing, and, from government, no less. Tune time. Do note the date.