If you think monopolies/oligopolies are are a good way to provide goods/services YOU MAY BE A COMMUNIST
it’s not good enough for the people that oppose it. Is our Neanderthal governor and his band of self righteous merry men using our tax money to run these ads?
Sounds like corrupt politics where Big Mary Jane pays off legislators and the big boys get rich and the little guys don't get to make a little extra cash. Sounds like what happened in the fireworks business around 2006. Big fireworks paid off the legislators and if you didn't have a state license to sell the stuff that exploded or went up in the air in 2006 you weren't grandfathered in and were prevented from selling the good stuff going forward. That's allowed a relatively small number of people to clean up. Same thing with licensure/credentialing in general. Credentialing allows wealth to be concentrated into the hands of a few.
I imagine there is a step process to this. Trulieve isn't the number one corporate lobbyist in florida so people can undermine their product. If they don't prohibit homegrown yet they will eventually.
Desantis just spent an additional $13 million of tax payer money to battle amendments 3 and 4. That's all that I need to know
I was able to validate the claims on a state website below. If Desantis has to spend millions of dollars against something then odds are it's probably a good idea. Florida Contract Tracking System Main Search
The people opposed to 3 focus-grouped the most effective argument and this is what they came up with, as they realized reefer madness wasnt going to work. Trulieve already dominates the medical market, so they are certainly well positioned to expand on that if Florida goes recreational as they already have enormous capital behind them. The text of the amendment gives a lot of flexibility to local governments to allow home grown or other things, but you never know what the state government will do. They could certainly step in and make it illegal to home grow across the board after the amendment passes. Ultimately though, passing 3 is a vote to decriminalize usage and possession, and worth whatever downsides come with it.
Haven’t touched it since 1985. I still see no rational reason to treat it any differently than alcohol.
It’s the problems being faced up and down the West Coast. Legalized pot is heavily regulated—from seed to shelf. There are huge expenses—from purity labs and oversight at every level. And then you have the tax that’s charged on top of the manufacturing costs. “Street pot” doesn’t have those expenses.
Dammit I am agreeing with you again. After my Covid I will never put anything in my lungs again but my neighbor gives me an occasional gummy while sitting by the fire and shooting the shit. That harms absolutely no one, but it is illegal now.
Yeah, I intended to leave liquor/spirits out of my analogy because they are not even treated the same as wine and beer. I'm sure that's due not only to the potency of liquor but also to the fatal poisoning which can occur when distilling isn't done properly. I'm good with liquor being more highly regulated for those reasons, but those same concerns don't apply to marijuana IMO (though I have no issue with some regulations on potency for commercial sales).
