Weed should be legal

@LordShadowfire There's also William Randolph Hurst who pushed hard to have it made illegal because he didn't want hemp competing with his timber paper profits.



There was no one actor against marijuana. It was attacked by mulitple large money interests.

@MethDozer this👆

@MethDozer I forgot about Hearst. Yeah, he and DuPont worked together to attack hemp, which really means that the war on cannabis helped bring about the environmental crisis we're facing today.

@Disgustedman Tabacco is a narcotic and the government could get taxes out of weed

@Gloomy Bang on!

@Gloomy show me the proof, please.

@2cool4school If drug possession and personal use are only decriminalised, it is still illegal to possess and use drugs but there would be no penalties. Selling and manufacturing drugs would in this case still carry criminal penalties.

Also when it comes to the production of food, drugs, etc... there should be heavy government control and regulations to make sure the products meet standards and are not altered to make production cheaper so that private companies can make more money.

@Gloomy I disagree with you on the fact that decriminalization can include the manufacture or growing of possession of and use of cannabis for example. I can look up specific examples though I don’t have any specifics off the top of my head.

@Gloomy as for the second part of your point. Those same “government standards and regulations can be introduced by a government to benefit the government and only the government and completely disregard and screw over for lack of a better term the end user. Uruguay is a perfect example of this. The quality and strength of the legal cannabis is laughably inferior to what an average home grow operator is capable of producing but is not allowed to by law. So the system is set up to make things great for the government and sh*tty for the consumer. California and Colorado are having similar issues and problems with the “seed to sale” clause in the legal cannabis industry as well. Independent Growers are not able to compete with the prices and end up with product that must be destroyed by law or can’t even make enough money from the sale to an outlet/dispensary that it’s just forcing people out of business. Which I believe was possibly set up to weed out (pun intended) the mom and pop growers and make room for the corporation’s to thrive in what is possibly going to be the 2.0 version of the legal cannabis industry. The corporations are quite possibly learning what they should do by watching the original growers crash and burn in a sense that it’s just like a beta testing with the lives and livelihood of people who have been growing cannabis for decades and did what they were told they should would have to do to remain a legal grow source. It’s a very shady business that’s only boosted the black market cannabis industry it was supposed to be surpassing and rendering obsolete. Instead the people who followed the rules are becoming obsolete and it’s all because of the way that the states legalized cannabis. It’s a broken system that has begun to generate a lot of black market money for what are essentially terrorist organizations such as Mexican cartels and foreign adversaries like China both countries have found a way to team up and end up with the profits while the average American cannabis consumers and cannabis business owners both growers and dispensary owners are now in a losing battle to remain solvent. This is something that I have quite a bit of first hand experience with and over 2.5 decades of knowledge accumulated from both the former black market structure and the legal cannabis industry as well as the emerging black market and illegal cannabis industry. I always believed that decriminalizing was actually a better path and it’s sad to see how that may be factually correct. It’s also disappointing to see how so many hands are tied and so many options for alternatives are not available and off the table.

@BackyardShaman who downvoted you, must be a Trumpist ghost.

@Peaceandnamaste I don’t know kind of funny 😄 😂🤣🤣 I have quite a few right wing enemies and when they downvote me I see it as a compliment.

@jshm2 go away when you use someone’s post to bully them.

@jshm2 My reading comprehension is perfectly fine my friend.

@jshm2 you need some weed yourself.

@Sidewinder Yeah, I really DGAF.

@LordShadowfire You may not care, but there's always someone else who might and that's a fact.

@Spoiledbrat depends on where you live

@Emosaur Well excuse me

@Emosaur That's something at least. Here it's illegal but also easy to obtain which is good for me but drug users are not treated kindly at all by law enforcment.