mangojuice
Active Member
Legalization opens up old markets and new possibilities in many ways, not just the legalizing of weed itself. It is similar to the grassroots agriculture movement: grow locally - buy locally. It is not new. Grassroots agriculture would bring up the economy in many poor rural areas. I know school boys who don't have a snow ball's chance in hell of getting ahead from the poverty they were born in but if given the chance and the tools they could boost not only their own income but the average income of the entire region - if weed were legal. Gangs would disappear.
Dairies and family farms shut down at a rate of hundreds a day, leaving many unemployed, disadvantaged and robbing an area of revenue not to mention direct to consumer, "farm fresh" products. Market gardens and farmers markets aren't a new fad, they are an old, old life sustaining, economy sustaining way of life. I can't eat the junk fruits and vegetables at the supermarket. I can't afford the so-called organics at the over-priced supermarkets.But I can grow my own. And if allowed to grow my own, I could sell my surplus locally. Whether it is tomatoes, potatoes or anything else. It is even illegal to sell milk from your own cow or goat locally. A farm can be raided and shut down for selling milk, just like if they were selling heroine.
So while there are many arguments for and against legalization of marijuana, it comes down to the local economy. Why some people are so greedy they want way more than their share of wealth that they will deprive entire geographic regions of a livelihood. It can be weed or milk or eggs.What makes weed especially valuable is that it takes from corporate pharmaceuticals a disgusting profit margin from drugs that are legal, dangerous and deadly and places a divine medicine in the hands of the common folk.... that too is a very old, very old life sustaining, economy sustaining way of life.
But this shouldn't be a money argument. To turn it into a money argument is a fallacy that diverts attention from its actual wealth. It is an argument about freedom and quality of life. A family having enough to live on, a community that isnt enslaved by gvt. laws, a medicine that relieves deblitating symptoms.... but it is so wrapped around the greed mindset, the western notion of power and control, that money is put at the forefront of the justification for keeping the status quo.
Dairies and family farms shut down at a rate of hundreds a day, leaving many unemployed, disadvantaged and robbing an area of revenue not to mention direct to consumer, "farm fresh" products. Market gardens and farmers markets aren't a new fad, they are an old, old life sustaining, economy sustaining way of life. I can't eat the junk fruits and vegetables at the supermarket. I can't afford the so-called organics at the over-priced supermarkets.But I can grow my own. And if allowed to grow my own, I could sell my surplus locally. Whether it is tomatoes, potatoes or anything else. It is even illegal to sell milk from your own cow or goat locally. A farm can be raided and shut down for selling milk, just like if they were selling heroine.
So while there are many arguments for and against legalization of marijuana, it comes down to the local economy. Why some people are so greedy they want way more than their share of wealth that they will deprive entire geographic regions of a livelihood. It can be weed or milk or eggs.What makes weed especially valuable is that it takes from corporate pharmaceuticals a disgusting profit margin from drugs that are legal, dangerous and deadly and places a divine medicine in the hands of the common folk.... that too is a very old, very old life sustaining, economy sustaining way of life.
But this shouldn't be a money argument. To turn it into a money argument is a fallacy that diverts attention from its actual wealth. It is an argument about freedom and quality of life. A family having enough to live on, a community that isnt enslaved by gvt. laws, a medicine that relieves deblitating symptoms.... but it is so wrapped around the greed mindset, the western notion of power and control, that money is put at the forefront of the justification for keeping the status quo.
