How naive can you be?
The cartel’s have illegals running slave labor harvesting their crops in the forests, under threat of death to their families.
Do you really believe the pot shops aren’t having to pay for mob “protection”?
That you have doesn't impress me.
A lot of people grow their own.
“Do you really believe the pot shops aren’t having to pay for mob “protection”?”
Actually, I know a few pot shop owners. One thing legalizing has done is it has removed the criminal element. Pot has become a very branded product now. It isn’t just pot, there are numerous named products. Besides smoking pot there are drops, coffee supplements, gum, etc. Again, hundreds of products the criminal element does not control. These shop and product owners value their license and are paranoid (no joke intended) about doing anything illegal.
We tried prohibition with booze. Didn’t work. Things got worse. Same with pot. As studies have shown, as many people smoke pot now as before the crackdown on pot, yet, many lives have been ruined with jail, police bashing in doors, murders, crime, etc. It isn’t working. Time to try something else.