Try, Try Again... Bourne Bans Retail Pot

Bourne's elderly population voted to ban retail marijuana sales last night in a job killing, revenue denying disaster of a vote.

Bourne had already voted twice to allow marijuana sales in town, but they kept throwing the issue up until they got a vote on a rainy night when people with jobs and/or kids were unable to attend.

Spouting Jim Crow era reefer madness myths, the anti-revenue crowd scared enough old people to kill retail marijuana sales.

Poof!

Bourne just lost millions in potential pot sales revenue. They also lost jobs, property tax revenue, indirect business revenue from people who will now shop in Wareham and the chance to draw in some money from that summer bridge traffic.

In return, they strengthened the black market, eliminated any oversight on pot sales in Bourne and did nothing at all to eliminate marijuana use in Bourne.

As you can see from the picture at the top of this article, I had no problem getting marijuana in Bourne last night. Gifted, of course. No tax revenue from a sale went to Bourne. The guy who gifted it to me could sell weed to a 12 year old, with only an overmatched police force standing in his way. No funding was generated for schools, emergency services, DPW...

Don't worry, Main Street is thriving!

Wait, what? Oh yeah, Main Street is full of shuttered businesses. It's a ghost town, especially up near her sole tourist attraction, Buzzards Bay Park.

A pot store would fill one of those vacant businesses with a vibrant, guaranteed winner. It would serve an industry that is already in place and thriving, burgeoning with potential tax revenue. It would bleed business over to other stores on Main Street... yes, there are a few left.

Instead, all of that money went away... up in smoke, if you will.

The town is no less free of marijuana, which is readily available all over town.

Of course, safety isn't the real concern of the anti pot prople, which is why you won't see Linda Zeurn or whatever that sea hag's name is crusading against far more dangerous substances like tobacco or alcohol. Those are most likely her sponsors, and she really doesn't care if your kid gets splattered on a highway in a drunk driving accident.

That's why God made Wareham, folks. Plymouth, too. Poised as the last towns on Routes 3 and 25 to buy legal pot in before Cape Cod, they will serve the needs of their smokers and those of the Cape and all of her tourists. They will draw in millions in revenue.

That's the Money Train, G... but that train doesn't stop in Bourne. Bourne seems to be in an irreversible decline.