I find myself thinking about two buildings on a corner in my town. It’s not far from my house.

They sat there forever, waiting, waiting for someone to have an idea. I stopped at that light a thousand times, looking left and right, wondering what would finally fill them.

A bakery, a bike shop, you know, something that someone sketched out on a napkin.

Now I know. Cannabis shops, one on each corner. Now I’m a capitalist.

I want those buildings to fill up with someone’s dreams. But after all that waiting, all that possibility, the best idea we have is two pot stores? I fear we’re out of ideas. As a community, as a state, and as a nation.

What do you think?

What finally filled the empty spaces in your hometown?

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