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Fact #1: It's so easy to produce large quantities of good quality cannabis if you know what you're doing. Just need sunshine, water, soil, and fertilizer, no ne
by calibas 4y ago
Fact #1: It's so easy to produce large quantities of good quality cannabis if you know what you're doing. Just need sunshine, water, soil, and fertilizer, no need to spend much money at all.
Fact #2: The thing that made cannabis expensive was it's illegality. The difficulty in growing cannabis was that it had to be done in secret, and you could go to jail if you got caught.
Now if you put these facts together, you realize that legalization means there's no more justification for ridiculous prices on a plant that's easy to grow. The only winners in the "green rush" are the established dispensaries, and the prices will continue to drop as more states legalize marijuana.
The major black market producers are against legalization because they know it destroys their profits. An odd case where cops, criminals and pharmaceutical companies all share a common goal.
- jwie 4y agoIt’s not that odd of a case. The incentives line up. LEOs get to seize drug money, property, and other assets related to drugs without due process. For pharma and criminals it’s the exact same reason; the laws create an economic moat.
- latchkey 4y ago"so easy" is proportional to "if you know what you're doing"