I actually feel for you. I hope you keep your 6 to 7 count for B high.. Enjoy.
You're missing the point. It isn't about who wins or loses. Depending on who decided to click on the thread it could just as easily be 8-6 in favor of your proposal. The fact that my proposal is slightly ahead isn't important.
The point is that people aren't against cannabis being sold in stores. When they voted against prop 19 they weren't voting against people earning a living off of growing and selling cannabis. What they were against was corporate monopolies, gigantic pot factories where bud are treated as manufactured products instead of flowers.
What you should be getting out of this isn't who's "winning". It's that the presumption that people are voting against legalization because it allows for stores where cannabis is sold is false. When you say "people voted against cannabis commerce", you're wrong. That isn't what they were voting against and I think this thread demonstrates that.
If what you were saying about people voting against cannabis legalization because it contained commerce law, you'd have people objecting to it right here. But no one other than yourself is objecting to it.
People actually care about the details of cannabis law. It isn't as simple as you're trying to make it. Give people a little credit. They are capable of understanding the details of a ballot initiative and will vote accordingly.
Simply spouting off one liners like "we need cannabis freedom, but business!" isn't enough. It's not enough to spout off things in soundbite form. You have to have well thought out positions and consider what's best for everyone, not just you.
Like it or not dispensaries are now an important part of the legalization movement. By alienating them you're alienating the most well funding group of legalization supporters in the state. To pass a ballot initiative, you need the funding and organization they can provide.
By dismissing commerce you're only hurting your cause. If we really want legalization it has to be done by bringing people together, not by polarizing them. What you support is polarizing. You should be thinking about how you can bring people together instead fighting to get what you want and ignore what everyone else wants.
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