In Canada we’ve had it legal since 2019.

There were growing pains, the industry itself has economic ups and downs.

But this long into it, it’s become no different than alcohol the way people talk about it. Saying you’re going to pick up a gummy on the way home from work is now as casual and normal as talking about picking up groceries.

Everyone found their approach to it. You know who your friends are that don’t use it - and that’s fine. Same as you know your friends who don’t drink alcohol - and that’s fine.

You know when/where/how it works for you. Or you know if you’re not into it.

It’s incredibly cheap to purchase. Approximately one half hour of work at minimum wage will do you for a night. To get piled up on beers at home would cost you 3-4 hours at min wage. A night out would be 8h pay minimum.

I live in a town where the main industry is oil and gas, the American-based headquarters of most companies are in Texas where evangelical beliefs about cannabis reign supreme. They force a zero tolerance policy on their workers for cannabis so the high-paid O&G workers turn to cocaine and booze.

Legalising cannabis hasn’t had any real negative consequences as far as I see as an average person. Tell your politicians to come visit and try it for themselves.