I must say I'm somewhat surprised (and I shouldn't have been) at the now common public consumption of marijuana. I see it and smell it everywhere.
We were told decriminalizing it was going to defund the drug cartels.
How’d that work out?
The consumption has not changed per se... Just no one is hiding anymore me thinks...
The State has failed to cut off the illegal product. That’s the failure to honor the unwritten rule, the State kills the illegal product, just like bootleg liquor. The State only has itself to blame for the failure. The legal operations pay the Vig and receive nothing in return!
I’m more libertarian when it comes to drugs people Wanna do certain things your own body then let them. That being said the whole reason it’s dropping is cause California is taken all the profit out of it for itself out of the people that sell it making everything so expensive that it’s cheaper for people to go back to buying it on the black market.
Weed in california is not a “free market” by any means. Its heavily taxed, heavily regulated and licensed, and legal operations are limited to <1 acre, I believe.
The Asian gangs and cartels (as well as the potheads smoking it) have decided that unlicensed/untaxed weed is still a much better deal.
Consumption of alcohol in public is largely prohibited in this country, at least compared to places like the UK. I don’t know why the same wouldn’t be done for pot.
I see it and smell it everywhere.
California stinks.
You can’t escape it anywhere. Hell. Standing at a crosswalk even. Cars go speeding by and you will be knocked over by the smell of pot. At chirch. Hospitals, day care, schools, on the lake in a boat. The overwhelming smell of pot is everywhere.