I keep trying to tell ya'll but nobody will listen. We will have legalized marijuana before we have a lottery.

Legal weed would be better for the state than a lottery.

Legal weed would be horrible for the labor force.

Medical weed through doctors' prescriptions for things like pain relief from cancer most likely wouldn't affect the labor force. It's not like Timmy and Susie could saunter into a shop and buy weed for funsies unless the state opened sales to the general public. Given that they fought Sunday booze sales and craft/draft/tap beer for so long partly because of the evil brew, I doubt they'd just open weed sales to everyone.

Cultivation of medical-grade weed, packaging, running dispensaries ... approving medical weed probably would create more jobs than a lottery where ticket machines and scratchies are installed in stores already owned and managed by someone else. The biggest jobs likely to be created with a lottery would be with the supervisory commission board - high dollar, going to friends and buddies, and not much else.

This is the most hypocritical state there is. Just let the people vote.

HAHA! Why do you think we keep letting in the Mexicans?

yes it is a good pain reliever. lets take it a step further. say said cancer pt has no ins. and is prescribed this "medicine" if they are on medicaid will the state be willing to pay for this "medicine"? if so said "medicine" will break the state for the simple fact they got to pay for it. if the state aint got money to pay for it then growers aint getting paid and the "medicine" will stop being offered

That would make my low carb diet a lot easier. Well, maybe.

Thank goodness.

These guys want to try to put, "Do it for the kids"! as a way to get the money they need. Do it for the kids and make the documents of which how all allocations are being made. We need a break-down of who get's what and a quarterly report with names and place money went. This needs to be part of bill and then let us vote on it. Just 10% to school is not right. Exclude state teacher pension fund from lottery contributions too many people can't keep out of that. Teachers pension fund will never have guaranteed growth as long as it is tied to 401-k and stocks. That money would be better put in a savings account where we don't have to cover loss years. Do away with pension fund and increase salaries for teachers. Only seven states don't have lottery Mississippi and Alabama are two of those. All these people traveling are spending our money elsewhere. Wages for teachers, new schools, and college scholarships are being provided to those kids out of state that could better be used for our kids. If taxpayers don't spend their money on lottery they going to spend it on something just as bad if they want too.

I find it hilarious that most of you don't trust the dcnr to manage gamecheck, but want them to implement a lottery. How short sighted do you have to be, to believe the state will manage a big increase in revenue well????

Ding, Ding, Ding!!!! We have a winner. A lot of us are old enough to remember the same crap spewing out of the mouths of the scum that ran this state years ago as it pertained to legal liquor sales. It was the magic bean then that was going to save our state and our education system. "If they don't buy it here, they'll buy it somewhere else." I'm all for letting the people vote, but if you think it's the long term fix for this state, history is not on your side. All it does is kick the proverbial can down the road. Einstein's definition of insanity was to do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Expecting this to solve our funding woes in insane. The only thing that has changed is the names and faces of the scum.

When did Nacho Doritos become low carb?

Did y'all know Florida already has a dispensary, with more to open soon in the state

Hammer meet nail... if they can't manage the funds they have now, they'll mismanage any new funds they receive in the future. The problem has already been stated earlier in the thread... it's greed among those who run our state.

This is what medicinal marijuana is suppose to be for. I think the little boy was having over 20 seizures per hour.

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