Posted on 06/19/2018 7:16:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Chinese, operating the largest ‘medical marijuana’ grows in Canada, are making billions off Canada by being permitted to export the drugs (and keeping the payments offshore.)
With full legalization, the Chinese stand to make tens of billions more getting Canadian’s high. Their factory grows stand ready to quintuple production.
Their grows in the United States are mostly illegal, but also bringing billions home to China. In my county alone, seven large Chinese grows have been raided and the property (after being cleared of illegal plants) auctioned off, with a large number of illegal Chinese nationals jailed.
Next on the list is heroin.
Given the tax rates there on booze and tabacco, I see pot prices going way up, and an incentive for smuggling and illegal grow sites.
...This industry has taken us all by storm. It’s not every day that we get to experience a market flourishing before our eyes... and so quickly.
Heroin comes from Afaganastan, better to have homegrown opoids ...
How common are illegal tobacco growing operations or bootlegging operations? Even in the localities with the highest tax rates?
If God made it, it should not be banned in its natural form.
“Heroin comes from Afaganastan, better to have homegrown opoids ...”
We do, they’re called Vicodin, Oxycontin, Percocet, Darvan, etc...
The criminal distribution networks will not respond to the loss of marijuana business by ceasing operations. They will find replacement products to peddle (opiates, meth, etc).
“Given the tax rates there on booze and tabacco, I see pot prices going way up, and an incentive for smuggling and illegal grow sites.”
Yeah. Because bootlegging and illegal tobacco growing are HUGH.
Trudeau is doing it for himself , the pothead ,LOL
Actually, there is fairly strong tabacco smuggling industry,in the Northeast, particularly between Indian tribes on both sides of the border, and there is liquor bootlegging, especially along the sea coasts, all incentivized by the high Canadian taxes on booze and liquor.
I don’t see any reason why pot would be any different.
Criminal distribution networks can't create demand by force of will; the loss of marijuana business will assuredly reduce their total income.
Payback for all the years England kept China spaced out on Heroin.
It's all too beautiful.
“there is fairly strong tabacco smuggling industry”
Smuggling legally produced tobacco from one state or county to another isn’t really the same as illegally growing it.
“there is liquor bootlegging”
Besides the odd guy in Appalachia with a still, I find it hard to believe that people are really bootlegging liquor. Bootlegging meaning making their own illegal liquor, not just smuggling already legally produced liquor around to avoid taxes.
“Bootlegging meaning making their own illegal liquor, not just smuggling already legally produced liquor around to avoid taxes.”
Tell that to JFK’s dad, Joe. There’s tremendous bootlegging of cigarettes from southern states to New York and Massachusetts. Bootlegging is to
“make, distribute, or sell (illicit goods, especially liquor, computer software, or recordings) illegally.”
According to Britannica: “The word apparently came into general use in the Midwest in the 1880s to denote the practice of concealing flasks of illicit liquor in boot tops when going to trade with Indians.”
I respectfully beg to differ. The current system works like a charm, just not for the government.
My wrestling heart-throb from the 70’s hooked up with the Canadian mafia & started smuggling cigarettes & then cocaine.
In 1993, Dino Bravo was at home watching a hockey game when he was shot 17 times. 10 in the head, 7 in the torso. Murder still unsolved.
“If God made it, it should not be banned in its natural form.”
And no employer should be banned from banning potheads. Nor should insurers be banned from raising rates or denying coverage. And on and on...
Good for Canada in this instance.
Hopefully, America’s stupid prohibition on cannabis will some end as well.
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