So now that cannabis is legal in Delaware, the beach towns still want to ban it, as if the inebriated consumers of cannabis will somehow run amok suddenly and destroy all in their path. They are ignoring the fact that for decades vacationers have imbibed the weed illegally in secret, and like they won't continue to do so.
Yet how many establishments in these very same communities sell alcohol? What trouble does that cause? Dewey has more bars than anything else from what I see. Yet no one is proposing scaling back on that. In fact, I bet if I wanted to open another bar in one of these towns, they'd welcome me with open arms along with all the drunken mayhem that establishment could bring. But selling bongs, papers or, heaven forbid, an actual joint would be the end of a community.
The same people pushing these bans are the traditional law-and-order types. Well, weed is legal and that's the law now! So how about we quit further dividing this country and stand united as Delawareans behind all our state laws?
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