Unleashing high potency cannabis on the populace was a huge mistake
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Date: May 22nd, 2024 4:47 PM Author: irate toilet seat sweet tailpipe
Saw in one of those elevator tvs today that daily pot usage is now outpacing alcohol usage.
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Date: May 23rd, 2024 11:27 AM Author: Territorial tan plaza jap
I think the situation in California from like 1995-2010/2015 was probably the best.
Weed was basically legal, but also a huge amount of the economy for it was untaxed or grey market.
Now basically no one wins - Cannabis clubs are everywhere and you have big money involved trying to breed the highest potency cannabis for the least amount of money and it's cheap. A subset of people want to get higher and higher and are suffering enormous mental damage as a result - particularly with latent schizophrenia. No way is 15% THC weed the same as 30-45% THC weed - its the difference between Wine/Beer and hard liquor.
Simultaneously you have all the aspects of a shitty commodity business - a race to the bottom, high production costs, almost no differentiation.
There was also a huge amount of people on the west coast who basically only knew how to grow and sell weed - they were very good at it - but also too stupid or ignorant to comply with the CA regulations/Tax issues. When legalization hit these people often found themselves without jobs and losing their land/houses etc if they tried to comply with the regulations. You need a county official on your land to evaluate your grow? No problem - but then they come onto your land and see your house is falling apart - so now the property is red tagged.
This underclass of people were much better off in the inefficient tax free underground economy, and now many are wasting away poverty/welfare/prison - while they were once subsidized by the grey market and not the state.
It's also a damn shame that there are so many cannabis clubs everywhere. It's disgusting.
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Date: May 23rd, 2024 4:04 PM Author: Carnelian Electric Theatre
there are portions of this that have some truth but most is alarmist nonsense.
the people that wanted to get higher and higher have always had hash or other concentrates that far eclipse high-potency weed in THC percentage; the analogy is more like comparing beer to wine or light beer to malt liquor and ignoring that hard liquor has been on the next shelf for decades.
there is way more differentiation in the cannabis industry than there was pre-recreational legalization. it's easier to find particular strains and easier to trust that the strains are what they claim, there are a shitload more products and more stable supply chains.
the people here were not "too stupid or ignorant" to comply with regs and taxes, the CA government was stupid enough to set taxes so high that it destroyed profitability for small farms, so the guys that were growing illegally for decades just shrugged and kept doing that.
these guys were better off in the underground economy, because the wholesale price of weed had a risk premium built in. that's deadweight loss. the industry as a whole and consumer are better off without it.
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