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Marijuana law is set to go into effect subsequent month, but it could take 18 to 24 months to set up all the laws and get merchants up and operating to sell us health care marijuana. The specifications, even though, are presently set for monitoring the plants, certifying doctors, and licensing growers, dispensaries, and physicians. Also decided: It will only be accessible in pill, oil, vapor, ointment, or liquid kind. No smoking permitted, developing, either.



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In truth, marijuana has in excess of 1000's of many years of health care use in human history and not even one particular death has been attributed to the herb. Simply due to the fact of the truth that there is no lethal dose tends to make marijuana a much much more viable and safer selection for remedy to a range of ailments and diseases. We know that the use of health-related marijuana can substitute the use of specific legal prescription drugs that have significant side effects, like accidental death from overdose, but these legal prescription medication continue to be legal even although they are a lot much more hazardous to the human physique.



According to the Centers for Illness Management and Prevention, more people died from drug overdoses in 2014 than any yr on record. The vast majority of people overdoses involve prescription opioids or ache tablets (OxyContin, Percocet,. Hydrocodone, and so forth.) Since 1999, prescription opioids sold in the US has almost quadrupled, and so has the variety of opioid overdoses. A lot of of these "pain pill" deaths could have been prevented with the use of medical marijuana. In 2014, far more than 14,000 folks died from overdoses involving prescribed ache capsules.



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But the actual tragedy concerning medical marijuana is the United States War on Drugs. It has permitted the federal and a variety of state and neighborhood governments across the country to take up military arms towards its very own citizens. It has justified the militarization of police forces across the nation. For a country that claims to be the Land of the Free, we incarcerate a lot more of our very own citizens than any other country in the globe. The United States of America has about two% of the planet's population, but it has 25% of the globe's prison population, most of them currently being nonviolent drug offenders. Over 50% of individuals getting marijuana charges. That's appropriate, marijuana arrests now account for above half of all drug arrests in the United States of the eight.two million marijuana arrests in between 2001 in 2010, 80% were for basically possessing marijuana.

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And the US taxpayer has been footing the bill. According to drugpolicy.org the US War on Medication expense the American taxpayer more than $51 billion annually. As it currently presently charges in excess of $30,000 to imprison one individual for one 12 months.



If the war on medication was functioning, it ought to make medicines much more scarce, consequently driving charges up. In reality, drug rates have stayed about the exact same more than the past 20 years, exhibiting the War on Medication has had actually no impact on the black market place of unlawful medication. The only thing the War on Drugs has been effective at is arresting and imprisoning our citizens at an alarming charge. The 1 certain way to wipe out an unlawful black industry is to legalize the extremely point that has been manufactured unlawful. In this way certain states are previously catching on and adding hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands to their tax revenues each and every yr. While their citizens are enjoying the true that means of freedom.



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Our Jamestown settlers really brought marijuana to our shores way back in 1611 when they established the first long lasting English settlement right here. By the 1890's it was turning up in a assortment of medications and was freely offered in pharmacies. Then in the 1920's, Mexican immigrants introduced us to its recreational use, and the rest, as they say, is background.



Fast forward to 2016, and:



Medical marijuana is legal in 24 states and D.C., with Pennsylvania the most recent to indicator on.

Legalization of health care marijuana is presently pending in Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Marijuana is legal for adult and healthcare use in 4 states: Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska-and D.C., as well, but accompanied there by rigid restrictions.

Meanwhile, it's one particular helluva funds-maker, so no wonder price range-strapped states can't seem to be to resist the lure. The numbers communicate for themselves. Back in 2014, grownup use amounted to $373.eight million; add in the complete for healthcare marijuana product sales and the figure comes in at a whopping $4.six billion!



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Plus, by 2020, it's projected that grownup use income will sum to $12.one billion, whilst health care revenue will best $10.7 billion, for a total of $22.8 billion. Talk about filling the coffers!



So now it's Pennsylvania's flip at the trough. Certainly, though our law is brand new, marijuana entrepreneurs are previously lining up. Says Doug Porter of the Cannabis Career Institute, "This is a prime time to begin a marijuana enterprise." Without a doubt, folks in the know truly anticipate some 245,000 sufferers to signal on appropriate away and product sales to speedily leading $100 million.



Adds Michael Bronstein, co-founder of the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp in Philadelphia: "Pennsylvania could be one of these robust states. There is a serious marketplace here."

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Creating a CSS Curtain Opening Effect

If you're as old as me, you might remember watching Let's Make a Deal on the old television airwaves. The show is apparently still on these days in a new format, but the original always stuck out to me because of one simple thing: the reveal.

There's something exciting about not knowing what is behind a set of curtains and that's what Let's Make a Deal was all about. Contestants had a choice of three doors, any of which opened to reveal a prize.

It was exciting!

That technique of curtains sliding open to reveal a treasure (even if it is a Bob's Big Boy gift certificate) is a neat little tactic and one that we can use ourselves with a little bit of CSS. Here's the final demo:

See the Pen OXJMmY by Geoff Graham (@geoffgraham) on CodePen.

The HTML

This basically boils down to three elements:

• The curtain wrapper


• Left curtain panel


• Right curtain panel

We can visualize what we're doing in a diagram:

...and when the curtain panels slide open, they will reveal a prize as the fourth element:

Let's use that as the blueprint for our HTML.

The CSS Layout

Now that we have our elements defined in the HTML, we can start positioning them with CSS.

Our first goal is to position the curtain panels so that they are not only side-by-side, but also in front of the prize itself.

.curtain {

  width: 100%; /* Ensures the component is the full screen width */

  height: 100vh; /* We're using this for demo purposes */

  overflow: hidden; /* Allows us to slide the panels outside the container without them showing */

}

  

.curtain__wrapper {

  width: 100%;

  height: 100%;

}

      

.curtain__panel {

  background: orange;

  width: 50%; /* Each panel takes up half the container */

  height: 100vh; /* Used for demo purposes */

  float: left; /* Makes sure panels are side-by-side */

  position: relative; /* Needed to define the z-index */

  z-index: 2; /* Places the panels in front of the prize */

}



.curtain__panel--left {

  /* Styles for sliding the left panel */

}



.curtain__panel--right {

  /* Styles for sliding the right panel */

}

  

.curtain__prize {

  background: #333;

  position: absolute; /* Forces the prize position into the container start */

  z-index: 1; /* Places the prize behind the panels, which are z-index 2 */

  width: 100%;

  height: 100%;

}

It might look like we've done next to nothing if we were to stop here and check our work. In fact, we're just looking at an orange block.

See the Pen wWvJaO by Geoff Graham (@geoffgraham) on CodePen.

This is a good thing! We're actually looking at two curtain panels taking up the entire curtain container with a panel for a prize lurking behind the scenes.

The Checkbox Hack

I'd be remiss to neglect the fact that we are going to be putting the checkbox hack into practice here. The checkbox hack, in case you're unfamiliar, is a method where we can change the presentation of elements based on the known state of a simple form checkbox. We have an article on the method in case you want to dig deeper into how it works.

The first rule to using the checkbox hack is that we need a checkbox in our markup. Let's add that into the HTML:

First, let's make sure our checkbox is both invisible and takes up the entire space of our curtain component. We want the entire curtain to be clickable and this will allow us to do just that.

input[type=checkbox] {

  position: absolute; /* Force the checkbox at the start of the container */

  cursor: pointer; /* Indicate the curtain is clickable */

  width: 100%; /* The checkbox is as wide as the component */

  height: 100%; /* The checkbox is as tall as the component */

  z-index: 100; /* Make sure the checkbox is on top of everything else */

  opacity: 0; /* Hide the checkbox */

}

Notice that the default state of the checkbox is checked in our HTML. This allows us to style our elements based on the :checked state.

/* When the checkbox is checked... */

        

/* Slide the first panel in */

input[type=checkbox]:checked ~ div.curtain__panel--left {

  transform: translateX(0);

}

        

/* Slide the second panel in */

input[type=checkbox]:checked ~ div.curtain__panel--right {

  transform: translateX(0);

}

This also means we can update our curtain panels so that they slide out of the container when the checkbox is unchecked.

/* Slide the panel to the left out of the container */

.curtain__panel--left {

  transform: translateX(-100%);

}



/* Slide the panel to the right out of the container */

.curtain__panel--right {

  transform: translateX(100%);

}

Now we're onto something! Clicking the curtain component moves the panels off the screen and reveals the prize panel.

See the Pen xOxqOL by Geoff Graham (@geoffgraham) on CodePen.

Animating the change

Next up, we need to animate the transition of the panels once the state of the checkbox has been changed on click. Otherwise, as you may have noticed, the change looks less like a sliding door and more like the blink of an eye.

Let's add a transition to the .curtain__panel class:

.curtain__panel {

  background: orange;

  width: 50%; /* Each panel takes up half the container */

  height: 100vh; /* Used for demo purposes */

  float: left; /* Makes sure panels are side-by-side */

  position: relative; /* Needed to define the z-index */

  z-index: 2; /* Places the panels in front of the prize */

  transition: all 1s ease-out; /* Animates the sliding transition */

}

How cool are we?

See the Pen aZbJBw by Geoff Graham (@geoffgraham) on CodePen.

Bringing it all together

Now that we have all the working elements in place, we can start tweaking things up be adding content to the curtain and prize panels.

See the Pen OXJMmY by Geoff Graham (@geoffgraham) on CodePen.

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