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> “We’re weeding out the stoners,” ... “We want to show the world that normal, professional, successful people consume cannabis.” In other words, pot for eliti
by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> “We’re weeding out the stoners,” ... “We want to show the world that normal, professional, successful people consume cannabis.”
In other words, pot for elitists. It's not enough to just open a different kind of store, the marketing has to establish a hierarchy. And people will eat it up too, who can resist the opportunity to signal that you're better than some other group of people?
- sliverstorm 12y agoPot has an image problem. Are you unwilling to accept that? Realistically, it can't be BOTH the property of countercultural rebels, AND completely legal. Pick your poison.
- robrenaud 12y agoTattoos are both legal and fairly counter culture.
- sliverstorm 12y agoI don't mean that "anything legal will become mainstream". Cannabis though almost certainly will (or at least a step below- general acceptance but not universally used) Its illegality was an obstacle to widespread acceptance that is being removed.
- waterlesscloud 12y ago>And people will eat it up too, who can resist the opportunity to signal that you're better than some other group of people? The first part of this sentence makes the second part ironic.
- dneronique 12y ago> the marketing has to establish a hierarchy Most mature products (particularly of leisure) have an associated hierarchy of quality. Top shelf vs. bottom shelf liquor. Name brand food products vs. generic. High fashion outlets vs. walmart.