Legal pot: Kind for restaurant sales or cause of chronic absenteeism?

November 30

There was an interesting article in last Monday’s Washington Post, saying that support for legalization of marijuana is growing rapidly in the United States.

It took the Great Depression to repeal the prohibition of alcohol (the 76th anniversary of that is being celebrated this coming weekend in what has become a sort of holiday in the mixology world). Will our current economic crisis lead to the legalization of another substance that is used widely by Americans to relieve stress? The tax revenues alone would be enormous.

Obviously, we at Nation’s Restaurant News like to look at this from the restaurateurs’ perspective.

And so I would like to ask you how you think legalization of marijuana would affect the restaurant world.

Please participate in the poll (you can choose multiple answers), comment below or do both.