Any fantasy about the marijuana industry being morally superior to any other will collapse pretty quickly.
Locally we’ve already had allegations of bribery from one dispensary owner to get the city council to limit the competition.
Guess I’ll add to it, but stoners driving cars doesn’t make me happy.
I honestly would rather have alcohol be illegal, and marijuana be legal. I don’t understand the hate. I know tons of functional drunks that do stupid things all the time, I know tons of potheads that go to work everyday, pay their bills and don’t get obnoxious or violent or kill people when they wreck their cars.
It isn’t morally superior to any other industry, every industry has corruption. But I would say marijuana is superior to other drugs compared to what drugs do to people. In some cases, I agree it is a gateway drug. But a lot of the time it isn’t. So whatever. Legalize it. Tax it. Let the stoners do what they want.
However, I do not want the “hard” drugs legalized: Heroin, cocaine, crack, meth, ecstasy, etc. If marijuana will be used as a “gateway” to legalization of other drugs, then I am against it.
So, using or trying to use the government to limit available competition are they?
I must say, it sure did not take long for them to get as skeevy as doctors, attorneys, stockbrokers, bankers, and CPAs. When your dope dealer stoops to such depths, I’m telling you, there’s just no decency in the world...
The fabric of our economy, our culture, our political system and its institutions, is now total corruption, those willing to conduct themselves honestly with integrity and trustworthiness, are just the decaying fringe.
We can no longer preserve our Constitutional Free Republic, it must be restored, the only remedy now is revolution, with out the shedding of blood, there will never again be a Free Republic.
“Locally we’ve already had allegations of bribery from one dispensary owner to get the city council to limit the competition.”
Crony Cannabisism. No different than building standards, zoning, street sweeping, courts, etc.
The mere existence of government, at least implies they have something to do.
Those things have included going to war, collecting and spending taxes, etc. More recently they make minute laws about every aspect of human endeavor.
You live in a parish or precinct, or district, or township, or county, or state, the officials must all justify their existence and their budgets.
“Tax and regulate” seem to have been favorite justifications for governments.
So why not regulate substances, too? Alcohol, cocaine, marijuana (hemp) etc.?
That has worked out so well. So let’s have more taxes, more regulations, more tax collectors and regulators.
Then let’s get police to assist, so we get still more government. Then give them all pensions for early retirement, since their work is so critical and dangerous.
Eventually the police could benefit from bigger powerful equipment, too. All the better, to collect the taxes to pay the pensions.
These government workers will form vast unions, to contribute to the campaigns of officials.
Which brings us back to Crony Cannabisism.