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I believe the taxes are functioning as intended. The entire reason California legalized marijunana wasn't some high minded criminal justice reform, and they ce

I believe the taxes are functioning as intended. The entire reason California legalized marijunana wasn't some high minded criminal justice reform, and they certainly did not want to remove a tool for social control from the use of law enforcement. Legalized marijuana was to pacify white, rich pot smokers. It was never the intent of California to encorage the use of marijuana, to make it avaliable at a lower price than the illegal market, or to allow non-white, non-rich people to benefit from its sale and use.

Melting_Harps 7y ago
Sadly this is truer than anything else I've seen in this thread, as CA had a really good program in place. Medical MJ cards were easy to acquire, dispensaries were plentiful, quality was always rather good due to the decades of good genetics and breeding etc... But, they saw the obvious cash grab and decided to move forward with it all costs to pacify their main voting constituency. Some good intentioned people may have played a part in trying to get to where it is, but I think it was mainly to consolidate Market Share for a mega corp to take it over.