https://www.apnews.com/9d36d2784bf94c7684f03b014989e17f/Marijuana-growers-turning-to-hemp-as-CBD-extract-explodes
Story on AP news site.
“Now we’re starting to look at drastic means, like destroying product. At some point, there’s no more storage for it,” Trey Willison said, who switched his operation from marijuana to hemp this season. “Whoever would have thought we’d get to the point of destroying pounds of marijuana?”
Yes the medicine that people fought for, lost their property and freedom for, some even died waiting for is to be destroyed because there just isn't enough profit in it. Is this what anyone really wanted?
It reminds me of films I've seen of the depression where milk was dumped on the ground while people went hungry.
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.”
-Stephen King