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i don't care what it costs, im glad to see these, and any other FOBs doing the same, get rolled up like a burrito.
There is NO SUCH THING as ILLEGITIMATE cannabis sales. Unless you are talking about a fraud where someone pretends to sell cannabis but it is really something else.
You need to switch your paradigm. Just because I was born in an evil land where evil men outlawed a plant, does not mean my choice to grow and share that plant is illegitimate.
It may not be MY market, because by definition a market is the sum economic activity of all participants; but what I know for certain is this multi billion dollar industry is LEGITIMATE and will never be controlled by immoral prohibitionists.
My guess is you are not part of this market, or you would know that the price of cannabis IS decreasing despite the immoral prohibitions and the real expense and risk associated with circumventing them.
I don't think anyone on this forum thinks that growing in houses is the most efficient way to cultivate cannabis, but since prohibitions still exist many use residential buildings to circumvent immoral prohibitions.
Thanks for the economics lesson but there is no inherent ability for a corporation to out produce a sole proprietorship or any other flavor of business entity.
You see production comes from working farmers and invested capital, even hippy collectives running at a non profit pace can have farmers and capital.
As to what will be produced by which businesses; if cannabis follows other intoxicants then there will be the Budweisers of the world and there will be great micro breweries that receive a very large premium over mass produced crap.
i don't care what it costs, im glad to see these, and any other FOBs doing the same, get rolled up like a burrito.
Andrew Carnage wasn't a corporation and managed to do just fine. Facebook hasn't held a public offering but seems to do just fine funding its operations. As I said hippy collectives can raise capital and labor. There is no inherent advantage over one business entity or the other. New Belgium brewery (fat tire beer) is employee owned but Anheuser Bush is not putting them out of business. These hippys even use renewable energy.
Illegitimate = Immoral (see bastard or child out of wedlock). Now being that my moral compass tells me cannabis is fine and natural just like any other flower therefore it is not a BASTARD or ILLEGITIMATE.
There is great chance of failure in any business enterprise, that is why most sheeple are employees or moochers on the government dole and not business owners.
The fact that cannabis prices are falling makes moot the historical connection to the economics of alcohol prohibition.
I agree that when legalized and regulated like beer most of us wont brew our own beer.
But I don't agree that beer was illegitimate during prohibition any more than it is illegitimate for me to be drinking one today.
I'm fine with your use of illegal, humans have had to suffer many injustices throughout history because of immoral laws. That is why I don't judge others based on temporary laws, I try to use a filter of morality based on man's natural metaphysics (natural law).
This is the perfect place to discuss "Cops losing the drug war."
This "Gang" of 10 middle aged immigrants has now been put out of business at the expense of the tax payers of America and CA.
What do these tax payers get? $100K, 22lbs of weed off the street and 10 individuals in California no longer cultivating cannabis.
What did it cost the tax payers? ????????? I guess transparency in government spending is a really low priority. I could only guess at the costs involved; but they did mention DEA, Imigration, and Local authorities (from several counties). So my guess is the costs of this are already in the millions and after the trials, deportations, or incarcerations it certainly will be multi millions.
What about this proposition: Police will never WIN a Drug War BECAUSE it is the very essence of HUMAN nature to take drugs and alter (escape) their reality.
Outlawing HUMAN NATURE does not abolish a behavior it only changes how that behavior is expressed.
As an example it is illegal to be gay in some nations around the globe, but I doubt the genetics of babies being born in those countries recognize this law.
The absolute failure of "The drug war" is evident by this story. If this is the best prohibitionists can do to scare the country into supporting them, they'll be unemployed sooner than I thought.