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You have this myopic view whereby you’re only considering the price. what is your health/life worth to you? Saving $30 a pop? I’ll happily spend that $30 to kn
by sixstringtheory 7y ago
You have this myopic view whereby you’re only considering the price. what is your health/life worth to you? Saving $30 a pop?
I’ll happily spend that $30 to know what’s going into my lungs.
First and foremost, lets get it regulated, _then_ let the market set its price. Sure there still may be counterfeits but at least discerning consumers will have a choice.
You point to other areas where regulation could be better enforced as a reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater here, that doesn’t jibe.
Even flower can be tainted, look at the paraquat fiasco (related to Mexican weed, coincidental to your last point, but still: regulation and testing of flower would be beneficial too): https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/19/archives/poisonous-fallout-from-the-war-on-marijuana-paraquat.html https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/19/archives/poisonous-fallou...
- Scoundreller 7y ago> First and foremost, lets get it regulated, _then_ let the market set its price. Sure there still may be counterfeits but at least discerning consumers will have a choice. Governments can remain irrational longer than you can breathe. I don’t have that kind of patience for someone else to get around to re-granting me Freedom.
- awinder 7y agoThen you’re trading patience for the having your freedom-years statistically decreased. A fine decision for an independent actor but not the kind of thing strong societies are built on.
- sixstringtheory 7y agoWith government, you can vote and even run yourself to affect change. There’s no petitioning the black market!