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My guess is that legalization is badly implemented in NL. Isn't it more like a "look the other way" policy, so that businesses in the industry still have to ope

by woah 6y ago

My guess is that legalization is badly implemented in NL. Isn't it more like a "look the other way" policy, so that businesses in the industry still have to operate underground? If you make a business illegal, then only criminals will do it. In the US, marijuana has become extremely boring very quickly. The industry is now dominated by artisinal bud brands, IoT vape pods, and CBD smoothies, not gangs. Perhaps NL needs to legalize all the way. Growing marujuana, as a business, is fundamentally almost exactly the same as growing any crop.

brnt 6y ago
It is indeed a large portion of good old fashioned planting-head-in-sand, and try to ignore expert opinion for as long as you can. However, assassinations are getting more brazen every year, entanglements with local government officials too, so the problem is getting harder and harder to accept. The NRC article with insights from the Italian anti-Mafia force gives a very chilling insight. The problem isn't marijuana, the problem is the types that are sourcing it here for export, and the enormous scale of domestic synthetics production (of which also most is exported). You can't have expect to have normal friendly businessmen trade in drugs which are forbidden in the rest of the world.
tripzilch 6y ago
You are 100% right. Even though you can buy it legally, the shops still have to source it from illegal grow operations. This still makes the whole industry look bad. Shops have to be super secret mysterious and shady about how they actually source their weed. Once you start asking about crops or where it's from, they become incredibly evasive -- I don't blame them, but it's just silly, this is a thing I can buy legally and I'm "not supposed to" ask where it's from?
- brnt 6y ago
  It doesn't just look bad, it is bad. Optimizing illegal supply lines attracts people who have experience with that: drug syndicates.

by woah 6y ago

brnt 6y ago

It is indeed a large portion of good old fashioned planting-head-in-sand, and try to ignore expert opinion for as long as you can. However, assassinations are getting more brazen every year, entanglements with local government officials too, so the problem is getting harder and harder to accept. The NRC article with insights from the Italian anti-Mafia force gives a very chilling insight. The problem isn't marijuana, the problem is the types that are sourcing it here for export, and the enormous scale of domestic synthetics production (of which also most is exported). You can't have expect to have normal friendly businessmen trade in drugs which are forbidden in the rest of the world.

tripzilch 6y ago

You are 100% right. Even though you can buy it legally, the shops still have to source it from illegal grow operations. This still makes the whole industry look bad. Shops have to be super secret mysterious and shady about how they actually source their weed. Once you start asking about crops or where it's from, they become incredibly evasive -- I don't blame them, but it's just silly, this is a thing I can buy legally and I'm "not supposed to" ask where it's from?

brnt 6y ago
It doesn't just look bad, it is bad. Optimizing illegal supply lines attracts people who have experience with that: drug syndicates.