So predictable. Liberals are a curse on humanity.
Butt, butt, butt........... Humboldt county is not a place to go jauntily hiking in the woods. Just sayin’. I wonder if all the legal ops are being unduly burdened by caulifourkneeuh’s onerous rules and regs for their grows. The illegal guys, their like honey badgers.
I was in Monterey last week and noticed a shop across from a McDonald’s I’d stopped at. It appeared, like everything else in Monterey, tastefully done and operating as designed. All the customers appeared content.
It seems there are certain types of shady products that are prone to illicit production and distribution, and attracts those who would skirt the rules. Weed, cigs, liquor, etc. Government can only worsen the situation with heavy handed taxes and regulation if it increases the spread between legal and illegal product.
Easy to fix but they won’t do it.
Lower the taxes to the point the black market can’t compete.
I heard about a guy in Colorado who is black market. He was getting $200 an ounce. Colorado legal prices went down due to competition and now he gets $150 in order to stay competitive.
If Colorado cut its taxes a bit, he’d go out of business, wouldn’t be worth the work.
Liberals even screw up their own drug industry. Surprise!
This is largely why all the manufacturing jobs are in China. Lower regulations and taxes. Doesn’t really matter what the product.
Colorado has the same problem. The liberal idiots taxed pot to the point it became about $52 a gram. Illegal weed is $8.
free enterprise vs a regulated marketplace.
more proof government can ruin a wet dream.
No surprise. They undercut the greedy government. The stupid government opens up the borders to help the cartels. DuhHHHH
Rats are nothing but sold on themselves stupid.
Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.
Lefty legislatures are hogs.
Commiefornia & much of the LEFT Coast is in a case of extreme drought, to the point where legitimate farms are curtailed in water usage. Yet, in a recent article, I read that cannabis needs a lot of water to get potent. So why isn’t the revived Governor looking to destroy the illegal farms?
Put the government in charge of the Sahara and soon there would be a shortage of sand.
Lilly white leftists vote to allow legal pot. Then they discourage legal pot shops. Then they decriminalize illegal pot. Because. Racist.
What a bunch of racist morons.
Well DUA!
You had a vast underground market system in place for years...everone had there connections. You think its going to be replace with a heavy tax heave regulation government legal market system?
Cigarettes and booze are legal and they both have underground marketing systems for one reason..to bypass the government tax and regulation.. did you think pot would be different?
The moral of the story...everyone will try at some point will bypass a government regulatory system depending on how heavy its hand is
“that government is best which governs least”
Only the left could screw up the market for weed in California. Sacramento set the tax too high; legal businesses can’t compete with the black market.
There is also the fact that the sort of people who bought weed before it was legal, by definition, don’t care too much about law and order and they aren’t going to change their ways just because a law changed.
The good news is a lot of CA have come to business friendly states such as my own where they are appreciated 😎