Is this what “take effect” means? Yesterday people could buy cannabis with a doctor’s prescription at any of the millions of dispensaries everywhere. Today they are all shuttered, their low level employees all laid off, and tomorrow only two dispensaries in the incorporated city of West Hollywood will be open anywhere in the Los Angeles area. The rest are all shut down for fear of arrest until they get their city permits which could take weeks. CA messes up everything it attempts. Even this.
Normally I would say that 99.5% of “medicinal” pot users would disappear right after recreational was available....but I am hearing that “medicinal” users avoid either the excise tax or the sales taxes...I think it is the sales tax but I will have to check. The lower “medicinal” prices may motivate some to keep their MM card.
They proliferated because they were being used as illegal dispensaries for recreational purposes - got to be too obvious there was more recreational market than medical and it is causing a quandary.