RE:FOXgeodcan wrote: just had a blurb on the state of affairs for the marijuana biz in California.
Apparently the cartels and such are running some very nice looking storefronts selling illegal, untested, un-trackable weed products in some pretty decent packaging, at least as appealing as Canadian packaging allows.
I have thrown out a theory of what the problem is to get the pot biz sorted out in the US and clearly that is enforcement.
Therein lies the problem. Could it be that the legalizers are afraid of cartel repercussions to themselves, loved ones and friends????
For that, I don't know what the solution is other than legal potpreneurs upgrading their sku lineup such that the value added component is beyond the capability of the bad guys. I'm thinking more than just a bag of weed, although the cartel and illegal storefronts seem to have more than just that.
Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree, especially when you consider the whole damn government is willing to break the laws of the land or rewrite them to suit themselves and that goes far beyond the pot biz.
Politicians are happy to point out the normal lawbreakers but unwilling to do anything when it goes above blue collar level and lower. Of course I am thinking about the whole securities business and the bankers and brokers, marketmakers and manipulators.
When I suggest that some of these guys need to be shot, maybe not shot but definately get a hurtin' put on them for impersonating the good people of society when they are as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
Think of how much hurt they have inflicted on trusting people by stealing their hard-earned investments with all of the twists and turns deliberately instigated into investment vehicles that direct the value of those investments into their own personal pockets, a lot by conversion and special options and warrants to go along with overgenerous renumeration by securities brokers whose intention is to clean out the unsuspecting.\
They are going to ruin this for all as an essential source of money for those who don't make the banks standards for lending. There's a lot of good companies that have been manipulated by shortsellers ganging up and coercing with each other to ruin companies with good potential before they even have a chance.
Smart crooks in the securities biz get the immunity idol plus the cash while some poor old pot smoker gets 30 years incarceration.
I am not even an American but will contribute to an honest politician leading a 3rd party coming up the middle of the clusterfuch they have going on in the US right now.
Grass roots for the people party, not the keys to the wealth of the country with self serving gestures.
Here's a billion dollar bust in illegal Cali bud:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marijuana-seized-california-billion-drug-bust-illegal-cultivation/