(02-21-2019, 08:02 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(02-21-2019, 07:39 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Careful what you ask for. I have nothing against it at all. I think it would be a nice revenue stream state-by-state. However, be careful what you ask for.

Once it becomes federally legalized the Government can start monopolizing it and dictating the terms state-by-state. You can have marijuana in your state.... but...BUT.. it'll only be allowed to be grown, produced and sold by X, Y & Z. And normally that X, Y & Z are companies owned by heavy lobbyists and investors.

Won't be too long after it's been federally legalized that you start seeing Monsanto type corporations buying up, drying up and [BLEEP] up the strains and markets for everybody else.

I love the idea of being able to grow it at home. Right in your backyard, etc. But I don't think it'll be as simple as that. It never is.

Colorado managed to keep that from happening. Last time I was out that way, dispensaries still either grew their own or had a co-op with others nearby. The edibles were still made elsewhere, and lemme tell you, if you've never had a couple of gummy worms chased with a sour apple hard candy and a side of MY HAND IS SO BIG, you've never experienced the glory of edibles.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."