I was not a woman that voted to legalize recreational marijuana. I thought that it was an awful idea to legalize marijuana and I still feel that it will lead to higher drug use in the state and the county. Unfortunately for me, marijuana was still legalized although I did not actually vote affirmatively. 78% of the population in the state voted to legalize and that left me out in the cold. At the very start of the year, some of the first recreational and medical marijuana dispensaries opened up in the city. One of those marijuana shops is right down the street from my office. I have to drive by the dispensary every single afternoon. The parking lot is constantly filled with cars. It’s not strange to see people sitting outside in their cars with a joint in their hand. A couple of mornings ago I was on my way home from work and there was a woman in a supplier suit smoking a marijuana pipe in the vehicle next to me. The woman was dressed like a supplier executive, but she had a bowl hanging out of her mouth while my friend and I were sitting in traffic. The woman did not care if anyone saw her smoking marijuana. She wasn’t trying to hide it at all. I was sitting next to her for many minutes at a red light and she talked on the bowl the whole time she was at the red light. It cannot be safe to smoke all of that marijuana and drive around the town in rush hour traffic.