Posted on 02/16/2021 7:13:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a shortage in the island’s famed but largely illegal market that experts say is the worst they’ve seen.
“It’s a cultural embarrassment,” said Triston Thompson, chief opportunity explorer for Tacaya, a consulting and brokerage firm for the country’s nascent legal cannabis industry.
Jamaica, which foreigners have long associated with pot, reggae and Rastafarians, authorized a regulated medical marijuana industry and decriminalized small amounts of weed in 2015.
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Jamaica has a shortage of marijuana? Milton Friedman was correct. If you put the government in charge of the Sahara, in a few years there would be a shortage and rationing of sand.
From the article: “This is a cultural embarrassment.”
LOL
NNNOOOO!!! Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse.
“This is a cultural embarassment”.
How about seeing what some other “experts” say,
Worse than Watergate?
Worse than Sept 11?
Worse than Covid?
I can almost hear Pelosi snd Schumer making case for a foreign aid package to Jamaica.
Hey...Write to Basement Joe...He’ll include “farm” money in the stimulus.
Only 1.1% of the population in Jamaica is Rastafarian. That’s half the number of Catholics.
No light up di kaya mi bredda, no get sum italizashun.
Dem voters hardest hit...
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
OMG, how true...
Here, we finally have a way to get Leftists to buy into sound economic principles...:)
California will come up with a great idea, to be a weed exporter to pay down thier debt
After hearing the news, Vice President Harris is in mourning while offering up a Hillary-esque cackle-giggle.
Oh mon. We ridin’ dat train to Babylon.
So true.
I’m what’s considered a professional by any measure on this topic and especially Jamaica and Colombia and nowadays the Cow states Michigan and Colorado
Thai weed would dry out on a ship voyage plus Thai corrupt officials could and would seriously eff you over and you could get major time in a tropic dungeon
In the old days Jamaican weed was the best mass produced you could get in this hemisphere in serious quantity.....Belize had better herb but no large quantity
Problem with Jamaica is they did not keep up and penalties for smuggling in 1987 got super serious like ten year minimum mandatories for relatively smallish smuggling loads of a few tonnes
Jamaican weed may have been 7-12 percent THC....seedless weed ....trying to compete with USA domestic sensemila with twice that strength and hundreds of strains and easier access..
The mid 90s everything switched from smuggling weed to domestic grows and still is today
Mexico always had commercial grade green bud for cheap but few people want it anymore
Plus edibles and concentrates....
Jamaica sells mainly to tourists and folks are disappointed with quality
What jamaica could do is up their game and ship it to Europe and make edibles for whomever
Jamaica always had pot oil by the barrel but it was poor quality and destined for Canada thru a pipeline via sea craft controlled by :Mohawks
So there’s sudden hope for my meager but battered SNDL shares!!
Huh.
So, what’s it like?
Pardon?
I haven’t smoked since 91
I am pretty familiar with the business of ganja since 1972
It’s a trip soon to be over is my guess
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