How will Eugene change is marijuana is legalized for recreational use? Will a town already short on ambition be further drained? Will tourists wanting a genuine hippie experience flock here and spend loads of cash earned elsewhere? Will smoking pot lose all its cache when it no longer requires defying authority? I wonder what you think.
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Don- honestly, without someone willfully making something it, legalization would go virtually unnoticed in Eugene. Now if someone with a vision of $ in their head were smart ( in a capitalistic way) they would build a 60’s based tourist destination and bring in crowds from all over the world to wear tie-dye, dance in the mud to reggae and blues, and smoke weed. But who has that kind of vision?
Oregon Country Fair peerhaps…..
I have wondered where will all the feelings of complicity in dereliction go, all the 4:20 jokes and hints, all the “out of mainstream pride”? I have to smile about it though, I haven’t touched the stuff in ten years now, just grew out of it. See what the young’ens think…