Editor's Note: The Ruiner is a strong abstract thinker. The intended purpose of this rant is to give the reader a sense of what may be... not what is. So hold your hate filled diatribes, and think a little bit further than one-step at a time.
I am so tired of this crap. I am appalled at the even larger mess the big boys in the MMJ community have created. Medical,small, personal growers (like myself) are going seemingly going to be subjected to an usurpation of our right, that we possess already (so I will NOT vote for 19), to grow for ourselves without having to pay the fucking government for our own medicine? That we ALREADY pay sales and utility taxes to cultivate is not enough? And there are probably some other ones in the equation somewhere. That is like taxing every asshole that has a vegetable garden. I would love to hear what ASA says about all of this, and further, what they are doing to protect patients, and furthermore; CAN I HELP PROTECT PATIENTS RIGHTS??? It's really cool that so many people, for-hire politicians and Napolean complex growers, came together as there own collective in an attempt dispense with our rights. So everyone of those a-holes that wants to tax the bejesus out of us has to believe that the ENTIRE market of growing will benefit from having only a few buyers instead of what, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands? So companies that make all the cool nutes and toys will get to feel the hurt when these mega-producers dictate what they are going to pay, because NO ONE ELSE WILL BE BUYING THAT CRAP. They will drop like flies. And furthermore, what about these attorneys that make a killing from growers getting busted? They don't want to have clientele? Best Buy doesnt want (mostly) young males with liquid cash to spend money at their stores anymore? None of the other stores want as many people to buy things either, its just too fucking complicated. So effectively, the entire distribution of the wealth market around weed will funnel directly into the government and the cartels? What is even more fucking absurd is the droning about "how much it will help california" from all the mountains of money they are going to get in tax dollars. Big Bullshit. California needs to reassess its forecasts on this one, how the hell is it going to enforce the soon-to-be rebel growers to pay the taxes? Are police officers going to know what strains are being offered at my "mcdonalds of
marijuana" and be able to tell the damn difference? How can they be so hoodwinked by lobbyists giving them current numbers of growers and multiplying the tax dollars, and not the future numbers which will be far lower. And of course the "mcdonalds of
marijuana" will be a huge company and get tax breaks and and probably end up returning FAR less back into the system than the current model. California will need to spend money, in essence become the weed-mafia's bitch, in order to enforce these statutes. The only way California will make money is by enforcement, and that will cost them. And then if you dont pay, there is the threat of incarceration, if I remember correctly california cant afford the inmates it has, so now it must absolutely re-prioritize and bust medical growers with their (1) 400 watt hps? So, California is wishing upon a shooting star that this will mean big-bucks, but has nothing tangible to go off of, admist this AWESOME RECOVERY OF AMERICA. I hope that all current MMJ growers actually fucking vote, and vote no this november. I hope to God that real conservatives of America come out in November and cut through the bullshit of 19 and Meg Whitman. Art Oliver in 2010!!
