The CA Dems best hope: get everyone stoned so they don’t care they are living in a collapsing state.
Weed and wine makes for a good time
With or without prosecutions, I’d like to see DEA go in there, collect all the pot, and throw it in an incinerator. Recreational marijuana does not improve anyone’s life, and “medical” marijuana is only helpful to a small fraction of those who use it. I don’t like seeing people get rich by harming others, not if they are also violating federal law.
“New, specialty marijuana businesses are sprouting up in Sonoma and Mendocino counties.”
Nothing “new” about it, been going on since the 60’s. Now it’s just out in the open.
Wines from Chile and Argentina have been available to U.S. consumers for quite awhile now and they are IMO as good as the wines from California vintners. Those countries have always had a robust drug trade of sorts which probably predates their vineyards. I wouldn’t worry too much about the economics.
"Smooth, fruity, with notes of oak and cinnamon. Pairs well with chocolate brownies."
Capitalism & freedom in action.
Marijuana has to be a lot easier and cheaper to grow than grapes. Likely it uses far less water too. However, I don’t think the hillsides are going to look quite as pretty as they do with the grapevines.
Here’s how to put a lot of the cannabis growers out of business: impose USDA regulations on growing the plant and FDA regulations on THC levels per gram. Let’s see how many are still around when that happens.
Can’t imagine a trip to wine country would still have that sense of class and charm.
Yes, that is my elitist-wannabe attitude. Some of us with Italian ancestry grew up with wine being served at the table, not for the purpose of getting drunk but enjoyed with a good meal. As an adult, I love a good wine (prefer Cabernet) but I’m not drinking it to get falling down drunk. Seems a very different case for weed. Just not interested in it, have lost a lot friends over the years to drugs. Do believe States should decide, people should decide.
We visited the Mondave winery quite a few years ago and we noticed some folks picking grapes that did not look like a typical picker. The guide explained that winery does not use grapes from new plants that are less than 7 years old so they allow the mom and poppers to pick them for their own use. That’s a long time to invest money without any expectation of return.
Outdoor weed on the other hand can be harvested every 6 months in the proper climate and promises a much larger return per plant than wine grapes.
Because the mexican drug cartels that rule california make more money from pot than they do wine.
When is california going to pull out all of the vineyards, plow under all of their crop lands, and replace them with poppy, weed, and coca fields under the control of the mexican drug cartels.
Gov moonbeam and the mexifornistan government seem hellbent on turning california into a narco-terrorist state.,
