CARTELS AND OTHER CRIMINAL ORGS SCORE A WIN.
The politicians in charge of our lives in Los Angeles handed every smuggler and dope dealer carte blanche to continue doing business. It's clear that the camel got his nose under the tent and slid his whole body into your sleeping bag.
What we heard yesterday was nothing that will impose any kind of control mechanism to determine where the cannabis originates, how it's supposed to be transported and how much unregulated money is exchanged across the counter.
With close to a thousand retail outlets slinging unmonitored dope it's the worst of all possible outcomes for law enforcement and the legal tax collectors and a huge boost for any criminal org that's already involved in drug smuggling.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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2 comments:
I think while some of your statements are accurate, the result of all this unregulated business, is that regular Californians are making some money for a change.
It's a level playing field and anyone can learn the business. Its not wrong to make a living growing marijuana that is legal.
Taxation and regulation will take time. It will fill in the gaps. But for right now, it is a young industry, that is making its way to legitimacy.
Most people who do this are not organized or criminals, but those people who are criminals should be removed from the community.
Customers regulate the quality. Quality is an issue people are working on. As a medical cannabis user, my quality concerns are did they use harmful pesticides, or fertilizers, or did they not flush it, or cure it properly.
The idea, however that marijuana users are a gang of criminals running amuck in California, is not very accurate at all. There are criminals involved in EVERY business in California, from farms to vehicles.
Oakland is successfully taxing and regulating because they embraced it from the beginning instead of being in denial about the situation.
All I see are Americans paying, paying, and paying some more.
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