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alcohol production is equally heavily regulated and yet somehow manages fine. perhaps this isn't an issue of bureaucracy, but an issue of time. when alcohol was
by permo-w 3y ago
alcohol production is equally heavily regulated and yet somehow manages fine. perhaps this isn't an issue of bureaucracy, but an issue of time. when alcohol was legalised in the US, it took at least a decade for the legal market to eclipse bootlegging
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- openthc 3y agoGood news is that cannabis started of heavily regulated and as the market & unstanding matures the regulations are being reduced (eg: CO/WA). New markets are heavily regulated (eg: NY), mostly because the regulators are still figuring things out and near-zero bureaucrats will play fast&loose -- more enforcement means they doing their job. Other markets that are easing in adult-use-rec alongside their existing medical -- and giving proper attention to the medical side -- have less of these issues (eg: ME). It's not like there was ever going to be zero issues -- but these things take time to settle out and laws move very, very slowly.