In 2018 - In the United States of America - LEGALIZED MARIJUANA means lawyers (and the elite) create tax, fee, profit, control and punitive fees and imprisonment-asset forfeiture machines -- write law to further the desires of the elite in liquor, pharma, rehab, bureaucracies, global privateers and profiteers from all over the globe.
People from all nations and walks of life have been using cannabis for good reasons for 10,000 years without any need for government to keep them 'safe'.
In 2018, medical and recreational users do not need to pay two to five or ten times more for this earth given plant, in order to further enrich the lives of the elite.
The same elite who created and profited greatly from 100 years of 'Evil Weed' laws and Drug Wars which have destroyed the lives of untold millions of otherwise hard working, honest cannabis growers and users.
The same elite who created and profited greatly from 100 years of 'Evil Weed' laws and Drug Wars which have destroyed the lives of untold millions of otherwise hard working, honest cannabis growers and users.
The folks behind the commercialization, taxation and punitive cannabis laws and their funders are the same cartels in government and various liquor; pharma; petro-chemical empires who have lied for 100 years, now own major interests in most of the land and grow locations around the state and nation, to the detriment of the families who have been supplying our needs at cost ($50 to $100 per oz, top shelf) for decades upon decades.
Many of the at cost, medically oriented growers made about the same average wages as Uber and Other 'independent contractor' app drivers made, being about $5 to $7 per hour, while doing agriculture work for 10 to 12 hours per day, only because The Elite snapped up all the land and had the cash to buy their permits and start up operations but they glutted the market which unjustly dropped the price per pound below true market value and below cost.
From late 2016 to December 2017, cost to obtain cannabis in bulk, went from about $1,800 to $2,200 per pound (top shelf, high thc/cbd) down to $500 - $800/lb. for large sections of the marketplace (i.g. the dispensaries in the bay area) and most of the medical cannabis growers took severe losses because their great medicine had to be traded at below its real cost to grow.
Many medical cannabis collectives had no medicine because their long time growers were now forced into poverty because they could not recoup their growing costs for the prior year. This means they could not pay their bills, rents, storage fees, court ordered judgements, taxes, nothing.
The Legalization & Commercialization of Cannabis, which mostly benefits the corporate elite and causes all people to pay many times more for the simple, naturally safe marijuana which harms the vets, elders, poor, disabled and low income people in every community, the most.
One person we know, about 70 years old, pays almost $1,000 per month for big pharma synthetic thc capsules, which means her taxes and our taxes pay mega bucks to the pharma industry for marijuana substitutes.
Local San Francisco - Bay Area dispensaries charge $40-$80 per one eighth (1/8 = 3.5 grams) what our Northern California at cost growers provided us with Ounces (8/8 = 28 grams) at their true cost of between $50 to $100, safely for he past several decades.
So, may top medical cannabis growers are leaving as many 'upscaled' commercialized, for profit operations are now selling marijuana that may have been stored in warehouses for weeks or months (since the market glut) with questionable quality, but we've heard it's not being tested right now (temporary exemptions?) so, many are paying top inflated dollars for cannabis from commercial operators. Many are not even from California or Northern California.
They work for elite major corporations who care more about profits and dollars than local growers, low income patients and our health.
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