I made a series of notes to myself at the beginning of the session, re all the promises the DFL made in the wake of their “trifecta”
There were a lot of them.
Some of them won’t matter for a while, or won’t be measurable for quite some time. (Is the DFL really going to cut child poverty by 1/3 in the next year/)
But one can be tested today: “Did the DFL legalize Cannabis?”
I’m a little surprised. While on the one hand a buzzed, stuporous electorate is a perfect DFL audience, I figured the issue was worth more to the DFL as a social wedge.
Of course, the law is full of gimmies to Big Pharma, and handouts to well-connected political insiders, and will benefit small producers not one iota. And as Colorado discovered, the taxes and regulation won’t actually affect the black market criminal sale:
Instead, in 2023, Colorado’s cannabis entrepreneurs face a perfect storm of problems: too much supply, not enough demand, plunging prices, heightened competition in other states, the allure of black market weed, a lack of cannabis tourism and more. That’s on top of the shaky economic forecast for the rest of the year, even though inflation is steadily slowing….Earlier this year, marijuana giant Curaleaf shuttered its operations in Colorado, along with California and Oregon. “We believe these states will represent opportunities in the future, but the current price compression caused by a lack of meaningful enforcement of the illicit market prevent us from generating an acceptable return on our investments,” CEO Matt Darin said.
There is ample evidence the DFL spent even less time thinking about unintended consequences than Colorado did:
The greatest effect is likely to get rid of the Marijuana parties that’ve sapped DFL votes in recent years.
There were so many promises. This’ll keep us busy for a while.
imagine thinking you can sustain a price of $100/oz for the leaves of a plant you can grow in your basement.
I’m glad you added that link to Ryan Winkler (although might work better. He really is a slimeball.
I heard Peter Thiel admit something the other week that has always seemed obvious to me, and is one of my biggest gripes against capitalism. If you are an entrepreneur, you don’t want to be in a business where other entrepreneurs can out compete you. You want to be in a regulated business and leverage those regulations to prevent competition.
This is just common sense. Regulations actually increase the value of an existing business. A stock in a company that grows marijuana commercially, if the sector is unregulated, will always trend towards the cost of production. Your company is essentially the same as an unskilled worker in an open labor market.
Rent seeking is not new. What’s new is supposedly intelligent people believing that restricting lawful competition will result in lower prices and higher quality. No, it will result in monopolies (think your local cable television provider) which results in higher prices and lower quality.
Add unlawful competition (smugglers) and nobody can make any money by providing quality so the race to the bottom is on and everybody loses, including the consumers supposedly protected by the legislation.
Imagine trying to make money in the liquor business if every farmer was allowed to make and sell their own ‘shine.
The right wing comments here are a hoot.
‘But the kids!’
‘Society will fall apart!’
‘Gateway drug!’
‘Driving while impaired’
Yup. Legalizing weed will mean the end of civilization. But an insurrection and an assault on our democracy? No problem!
^ did i miss some comments?
And given that anyone and everyone who wants to use it now can and does, there will he little noticable change with this.
“The 2022 Leafly Jobs Report found 428,059 full-time equivalent jobs supported by legal cannabis as of January 2022. Last year, the cannabis industry created an average of 280 new jobs per day.”
Jobs Report 2022
Legal cannabis now supports 428,059 American jobs
https://leafly-cms-production.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/22132544/LeaflyJobsReport2022.pdf
“And given that anyone and everyone who wants to use it now can and does, there will he little noticable change with this.”
But . . . but . . . it’s illegal now. Surely you’re not suggesting that certain people ignore laws they don’t like? That would mean laws only affect law-abiding and have no effect on criminal behavior because criminals ignore the laws anyway.
It that were the case, then No Guns Allowed signs and Prohibited Persons laws and Universal Backround Checks would be wasted paper because law-abiding citizens don’t need them and criminals won’t obey them.
It’s almost as if you are admitting Liberals don’t intend to control crime, they intend to control everyone who’s not Liberals, the better to oppress and eventually exterminate them. Remember who else wanted to exterminate everyone not like them? He’s your role model.
Why aren’t you ashamed of it?
(Bill Gleason’s protégé)Emery,
well you’re in full flower today, but as you well know…
You’re not an expert if you don’t have the credentials!
You love to brag about your indicia of wealth and privilege, why not brag about your CV?
What colleges count you among their alum?
What bachelor degrees do you hold?
Where did you get your Masters?
Where did you get your JD?
Where did you get your PhD(s)? What was it like to work with Bill Gleason?
Where did you get your MD, what internships did you complete?
Emery,
before you can judge others for their moral deficits you should make an attempt to illuminate your moral core. Lets start with a couple easy questions…
Among so many other things you present yourself as an expert on the ethics of abortion so it should not be difficult for you to answer this question…
At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you? Full.Stop 🙂
As a bonus question where can I find the text in the Constitution that supports this claim you made:
“The Constitution before amendment said Clarence Thomas should be counted as 3/5ths of a person.”
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I’m in favor of legalizing everything. Meth, coke, weed, opium…whatever; run what you brung.
Drug enforcement is a cash cow for cops and Feds. The Feds have also used drug enforcement to destroy the 4th amendment. They are more a direct threat to me and mine than any spun idiot could ever be.
And all the chaos local, state and Fed LE has created has done nothing to stop, or even slow consumption.
emery
show us your moral foundation!
just answer…
Among so many other things you present yourself as an expert on the ethics of abortion so it should not be difficult for you to answer this question…
At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you? Full.Stop 🙂
As a bonus question where can I find the text in the Constitution that supports this claim you made:
“The Constitution before amendment said Clarence Thomas should be counted as 3/5ths of a person.”
Hey rAT; how many Fed District courts are there?
Simple question, even for a nitwit such as yourself.
bn
Yes legalize everything AND enact a very robust national Stand Your Ground Law in the process – the combination should resolve a lot of behavioral problems in a hurry.
rAT squeaked:”The right wing comments here are a hoot.
‘But the kids!’
‘Society will fall apart!’
‘Gateway drug!’
‘Driving while impaired’”
Comments here? Where are those comments, nitwit? WTF are you babbling about? You’re baked AF and on your 3rd G&T already, aren’t you?
When was the last time your shitty little bungalow was clear of trash, rAT?
Some of my nieces and nephews have gotten into the weed scene in Michigan, and it’s pretty darned sad what getting high all the time has done to otherwise basically intelligent people. We buried one of them, my niece, I suspect because the dealers were also dealing fentanyl.
I am ordinarily somewhat in favor of legalization, but I think we’ve got to know a little more about how THC and the like work in humans as we go so we don’t end up burying too many more young people.
BB
thanks to our Public School System we will be burying lots more young people – that’s inevitable.
Like not catering to the mentally ill (trans ideology), NOT coddling the drug addled is a choice we will have to make sooner or later if we wish not to descend into barbarism.
They make a choice to take drugs, lets make sure the consequences are nasty, brutish, and short.
There will always be a cohort that makes bad choices and or have addiction characteristics. Should individuals committing suicide with a firearm cause laws restricting the sale of firearms ro be imposed on lawful gun owners?
In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958), according to the CDC.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
By SiTD logic — guns should be illegal….
(Bill Gleason’s protégé)Emery,
Now you’re just blathering!
You’re not an expert if you don’t have the credentials!
You love to brag about your indicia of wealth and privilege, why not brag about your CV?
What colleges count you among their alum?
What bachelor degrees do you hold?
Where did you get your Masters?
Where did you get your JD?
Where did you get your PhD(s)? What was it like to work with Bill Gleason?
Where did you get your MD, what internships did you complete?
Hey rAT! Pay attention fuckwit!
How many Federal District courts are there?
It’s an open book test, so put the G&T down, go get your law school coloring book and look it up.
You can do it, fool!
Are you feeling suicidal, rAT? Gonna kys?
If you need anything, just reach out. Another 1/2 gal of gin, a blunt…some ammo. Anything, just let me know.
Once rolling this bill will generate over $100 million in tax revenue for Minnesota. I wonder how much Scott Jensen’s abortion ban and kitty litter bill would generate for Minnesota?
Montana and Missouri have legal weed. South Dakota voted to legalize it as well. Given how conservative these states are I think people need to re-examine the politics of this issue.
* South Dakota took away the will of the people. They’re closet authoritarians — they want to rule not represent.
” South Dakota took away the will of the people.”
BN
he’s obviously passed his 3rd G&T, coherence has gone by the wayside.
He’s really stoked for legal weed, Mac, but I don’t get it.
I mean how much effect could ganj have on his wet brain? Would he even know if he was baked?
Or maybe it’s because he thinks he’ll get more lively action out of his ER nurse daughter at the Berkeley horse…
Is Fluffy having a discussion with someone whose comments I don’t see? Or the voices in its head?