We are now living in a time where marijuana and marijuana consumption/cultivation/possession are low priority offenses. People all over the state of California can score pot anytime they like and smoke in many different venues. Anybody can go out and get a medical license and set up shop in their back yard or extra office space or attic or wherever it is people like to grow their pot.

The price of marijuana has been fairly consistent over the last 15-20 years. And the money that is made off of marijuana currently, for the most part, stays within the marijuana community. Growers get paid to grow good pot and they do a fine job of it. It is hard work and they deserve to be paid well. These are locally created jobs for and by the people. The money that does not remain within the marijuana community is pumped back into our local economies.

Now, what happens when Uncle Sam gets involved? You can guaruntee that he’ll be taxing marijuana heavily. Who pays that tax? If you buy pot, that’s you! Will that make the price of pot go up or down? I’m going to go ahead and go with my gut here and say that taxing pot will increase the cost of a lid to the average buyer.

What about the growers? Well, with pot being legal and all, the market will become flooded, driving the growers selling prices down. Meaning they don’t get paid so well for all that hard work they’re doing now. The pot being sold will still be taxed so don’t think that you’re getting a break just because the farmers can’t keep the prices where they have been.

This makes for a perfect set-up for corporate take over. Large corporate entities will have a marijuana market that is primed. Mom and Pop growers will not be able to compete with large scale industrial production methods and will be driven from the market. All of those profits that used to circulate within small local communities will be redistributed to CEO’s, CFO,s, and all sorts of other corporate minded folk that don’t live near you or your community. They’re goal is simple: to make money off of you. And those guys will be working hand in hand with, you guessed it, Uncle Sam!

Wasn’t it Uncle Sam who was fucking us from the get go? Wasn’t it the US government that told us that pot smokers are criminals and that they deserve to go to prison? And now the government wants to reap the benefits. The government wants to tax marijuana sales? And do what with the money? I don’t know about you, but the last time I checked I couldn’t figure out what the government was doing with my money, but I can be sure that they weren’t spending it on items that I felt were of any value such as education, social services, health care, etc.

My advice, keep marijuana where it belongs, in your communities. We have a good thing going here people.

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