The population in our state is suddenly growing.
When I lived out in the plains, I was used to being in a small neighborhood that saw several of its young people leave upon graduating high school.
That’s what I did when I wanted to attend school—I went to a school over 1,000 miles away from our home to experience life anywhere else for a change. But now that our modern state is swelling beyond capacity, I don’t believe how I think about living here. The roads are always clogged and the lines in stores and pharmacies are unreal during our tourist season. It’s entirely intimidating when I’m on the interstate highway and all of the lanes around myself and others are full of cars driving uncomfortably close to a single another. When our state first legalized medical marijuana in 2016, it took over a year for the number of patients to crawl close to 100,000. As of last Springtime, the number of patients shot up over 770,000. Soon there will be over a single million people in our state who have purchased a medical marijuana card. That makes us the fourth greatest marijuana industry in the country despite only being several years old. While all of us only have medical cannabis at the current moment, there are initiatives being proposed to put recreational marijuana on the ballot in the next general election. Things seem appreciate they’re only going to continue growing and increasing at a rapid rate, regardless of how people appreciate myself think who have lived here for years and are unhappy with the way things progressed. A lot has really changed in a short phase of time.