According to ZipRecruiter analysis, currently the fastest-growing industry in the United States
Marijuana
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Marijuana should be something that can be earned in jail with good behavior.
Same with Rambo knives. Good guys with Rambo knives have little to fear from bad guys with plastic shanks.
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The pharmaceutical industry has consistently lobbied (millions, more likely billions spent) against marijuana. They know it’s perhaps the greatest threat they face.
When Colorado legalized, they tried to project tax revenues. They didn’t do less than they expected or on the level they expected...they exceeded it. Washington state did a fiscal projection based on the Colorado model. They still exceeded that, too.
Nice post. I like this Clinton Scott's posting. It reminds me of a very reasonable poster that used to post here that went by GL97.
I was thinking that the pharmaceutical companies might also try to embrace the movement on some level, and develop/market marijuana products for more mainstream audiences, i.e. try to distance marijuana from the stoner/hippie image. Just for sake of argument, I'm visualizing something like an asthma inhaler that would deliver THC, and be sold on the pages of Good Housekeeping. I figure someone in that industry has thought about things like this, but decided they're better off trying to keep it illegal?
Big Pharma has successfully lobbied Washington for decades to keep marijuana in Schedule 1, which is one of the biggest logical fallacies of our time.
Cannabis can be smoked in many ways...
- Glass pipe, bong, joint, etc. to smoke flower.
- Vaporizers essentially pre-burn the THC out of the flower without any tarring effects. It’s one of the cleanest ways to smoke.
- Dab pens are very popular now (e-cig with cannabis oil).
- “Dab” is a processed THC concentrate that is smoked in much the same way as you would out of a bong. Instead of a glass bowl, it has a metal or quartz piece that can be used on a glass bong. It is heated by torch and a dab will burn from the heat and create smoke and you ingest. As opposed to smoking an entire bowl, it is literally a one-hitter quitter with levels upwards of 90-something percent THC potency. Dab is becoming a highly popular way to smoke...
As it is processed, though, in non-legal states such as Oklahoma, it is a felony.
P.S. The fastest-growing demographic of cannabis use is among senior citizens.
A study by New Frontier Data on marijuana’s effect on Medicare prescriptions in legal states shows that if marijuana were legal in all 50 states, pharma would lose $4 billion annually.
They’ll do everything in their power to continue the war on weed.
They’ll do everything in their power to continue the war on weed.
Would love for the feds to just finally say eff it, legalize it, then tax it.
When the recent legalization effort in California (Prop 4 I think it was) went up to vote, the medical pot industry actually fought against it to protect their profits. Do you really think that the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry wants to give up its government regulated gold-mine in support of a product that any schmuck can grow in their backyard. There are studies as well that indicate that states that have legalized MJ actually have lower Opiod addiction and death rates. In other words, no. The pharmaceuticals and the alcohol industry are both major contributors to efforts to keep current prohibition laws in effect.
Any effort to decriminalize/legalize MJ needs to include the ability for anyone to grow their own similarly to being able to brew your own wine/beer. Limit the number of plants per year with penalties for selling unless you get licensed.
