RE:HiConsider this, The powers that be rely on a workforce that is hungry. This ensures the GDP "gross domestic output" of the nation is running at an optimal level to keep the wheels greased enough to keep turning. I put this arguement to you. What if something interupted this process? What if the workforce wasn't so hungry and they started missing time from their jobs and the output of the various industries fell thus effecting the GDP. The powers that be would want to ensure the status quo was maintained in order to keep things running along smoothly. Now what if the workforce found sudden wealth and weren't so hungry as before and lost their incentive to work and contribute to the GDP. How do you think the powers that be would react to such a thing? Would they not identify the contributing factor? Would they not set forth a plan to eliminate the cause of the drain on the GDP? I put this arguement to you. Since the Cannabis industry took off there have been hundreds of thousands of everyday people find wealth and prosper thanks to being foresighted enough to invest in the sector. Many left their jobs behind to settle into a more comfortable lifestyle. No longer as hungry as before. This in turn having an effect upon the bottom line of the nation. What if there were a way to effect this new found wealth among the masses and again make those people hungry enough to have to return to the workforce and resume contributing to the economy? Here my friends is where the Alternate Trading System is put to the use of the powers that be. I say that this criminal system has been used systematically along with bureaucratic ineptitude and inaction to facilitate a draw down of value across the entire cannabis sector. Orchestrated systematically by those in power for ultimately their own gain and facilitating the loss of wealth to the retail sector. A systematic plan orchestrated and carried out by the unscrupulous powers that be. Just speculating on that but doesn't it give you pause to considder the possability?