When the city allowed legal sales of cannabis to begin Jan. 1, 2020, pot shops were prohibited from opening anywhere in the city’s central business district. The new rules narrow those restrictions to include a strip between Michigan Avenue and State Street from Division Street on the north to Van Buren Street on the south, as well as from Michigan Avenue between Ohio and Illinois streets east to Navy Pier.
Notice the word Legally. Pot-Fentanyl-heroin-meth-Oxy-Vicodin have been sold in back alleys for years now but no taxes were collected. Now they will get pot taxes. All financial problems solved. Yeah Right!
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Notice the word Legally. Pot-Fentanyl-heroin-meth-Oxy-Vicodin have been sold in back alleys for years now but no taxes were collected. Now they will get pot taxes. All financial problems solved. Yeah Right!
One more nail in the coffin…