It's laziness IMO. If people would get off their asses and form their own legal companies they wouldn't have anything to worry about when it comes to legalization. A lot of growers want to get paid like professionals but don't want to act like professionals. They want to kick back and get high all day, work their garden for an hour or two a night, then live the life. I'd like that too, but that's not the way the real world works.
If you want to remain a professional grower, you have to act like you're running a business. Many just act like they are drug dealers. These are the same people who constantly complain about "big marijuana corporations taking over". Preventing "big cannabis" from pushing you out of the business isn't complicated, it's just a lot of work that people aren't willing to do.
As of now "big cannabis" doesn't even exist. A dispensary isn't big cannabis. It's just a store. It might look big to some people but in reality it's not. Phillip Morris isn't coming to take over with their mythical Marlboro Greens. Those never existed. This is all just a tactic a lot of growers use to keep cannabis a black market product so they can make money without actually having to work 40 hours a week.
I don't care if people want to be black market growers/dealers. If that's the life that works best for them then I wish them the best of luck. It has no effect on me, I'm good with it. But I don't want to go to jail or even be treated like a criminal so they can live the life. I also want all those black market and medical growers/sellers released from jail and their records erased because I don't think they should be criminals either. I think black market growing/selling should be a civil offense payable by fine instead of jail. It should be a ticket like speeding.
This version of legalization actually does most of that. It frees people from jail and erases their records. Many of these people are no different from you or me, they just got unlucky. This could have happened to any of us if we were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They deserve freedom.
It's profoundly selfish to oppose freeing these people from jail because people are too lazy to treat growing as a real career.
couldnt have said it better myself......dont even need to add anything. let the uneducated, anti-legal cannabis growers slangin pot so they can buy 25 pairs of jordans and gucci belts every week find their own way. but i plan on doing some real good and helping as many as i can when legalization comes. sooo many potential business opportunities i cant wait!!
i will add that i am scared of big tobacco coming in and doing exactly what they did to tobacco.....there really isnt anything stopping that from happening except the people standing up against them
I never said I wasn't considering other factors such as releasing people from jail. That's another subject. But be serious, everyone needs to make a living. Everyone needs a retirement account, unless you like working when you're 80. I am asking for peoples' opinions because I truly do not know what other opportunities there are. I work for a large company in the IT department. I am not a closet grower selling to dispensaries. I am not in the industry, I don't have the inside info that some people like you and DanKone have. This is why I asked.My grow is personal and medical and legal. I am looking at opportunities because I would like to not work for a large corp anymore. That I am asking these things does not mean that I am disregarding anything else or being "super selfish".
While I never mentioned closet growers, how much money you can stand to make or lose is still a very important question. Everyone needs to make a living. And it's the garage and small warehouse growers that have been the backbone of this industry for 30 years. We can at least give them a tip of the hat while we put them out of business.
Maybe you're reading too much into my posts.
oh please dont think i was directing that at you, i was just making a general statement....not at all calling you out. im also not connected like you say. For anybody who is growing for personal use, the laws are enough. i think if people are really honest with themselves the legal grow limits are definitely enough for a single person lol....that is my opinion but i tend to see too much of growers complaining about the fact that they will not be able to grow as much and shit like that....are they really worried that they wont be able to provide for their medicinal needs(which they can prove they need more than the limits allow if they can prove it's necessary) or pleasure smoking, or worried that they wont be able to make as much money? and growers and users alike need to look at the bigger picture, and it is that cannabis should be legal to grow and smoke for everybody. there needs to be some sort of regulation as well as restriction(children)......laws can be altered tho, maybe it is easier said than done but what is more important: cannabis finally being legal, or keeping it illegal because of the money?
by the way i also dont think a legal market will be the people who really know what theyre doing out of business......serious growers who do it for a living will prosper, they will make a way for themselves as they have all along because they are self-reliant and know they are good at what they do....there is definitely a demand for talented/educated/experienced growers. look at all the new types of businesses and industries popping up as a result of WA and CO legalizing. being able to grow weed doesnt end when we are legal.
lastly, i just gotta say this: cali shits on everybody. legal ca is going to bring so much money to the state it's ridiculous, not to mention no more criminal records for cannabis!!! i would never want to travel to CO or amsterdam for weed when cali is legal lol, the best shit comes out of cali and the west coast....it's going to be awesome to see what we do here in ca when we're legal
