You’ve been living your whole life thinking August 8th is just another mid-month summer doldrums day. Which we suppose is true — but it is also National CBD Day. (And National Happiness Happens Day, and National Frozen Custard Day, and National Sneak Some Zucchini Into Your Neighbor’s Porch Day, and National Dollar Day. Seriously. This is according to something called the National Day Calendar, a group that actually vets and approves applications for faux-holidays.)
Anyway, we don’t especially care about the pandemic spread of these meaningless holidays, but National CBD Day did get us thinking. Because remember a few months back, when Lt. Gov. John Fetterman embarked on a statewide listening tour to discuss legalization of recreational marijuana and the Wolf administration asked for citizen feedback?
We were wondering what you, the people, actually thought about this all, so we submitted a public records request to get a cross-section of responses from Philly and the suburbs, totaling about 1 percent of all submissions received by the state. A grand total of 35,012 people submitted feedback — nearly 30,000 of whom reported they were in favor of recreational marijuana legalization. About 4,500 people expressed opposition, while 500 indecisive people couldn’t make up their mind either way.
So kick back with a CBD drink or something, and check out a few of the high points from the 35,000 submissions.