this is absolutely chilling…our food supply is getting drenched with so much toxic pesticide that it’s difficult to set up a cannabis greenhouse in the “heartland”
“It really makes it difficult for us to use a lot of our tools in the chemical world, in our weed control,” Blubaugh said. “When those things can be sucked in through their ventilation system and then kills all of their plants in their grow houses … there’s a huge liability issue there.”
Thats disgusting, profit over health will always have a conflict of interest.
Big pharma and biotech have captured both the CDC and the FDA. With the trillions they are making from covid they can buy, blackmail, kill anyone they like.
Phizer were fined 1.3 billion dollars in 2019 for lying about the effectiveness of some of their drugs and side effects.
Their laws were outdated, much like most politicians, before they ever voted on it. Everyone knows they are outdated and wrong. As long as big money is put behind keeping things illegal federally, they will stay that way.
Here’s what should really scare you though- Corey Booker is vocally for legalization. That sounds great on the surface but he has been in big pharma’s pocket since day one. So either he’s decided to piss off and go against the interest of his biggest financial donor (unlikely), or he has their blessing or even insistence on pushing for legalization.
It is easy to push for anything when you know the WH is not going to sign it. Seems a lot of people forget about the 90’s, the crime bill, and who wrote it. None of this surprises me. Too old, and been around this kind of shit too long.
Reiterating the obvious.
It’s cute how politics obscures reality.
That should read Its cute how money obscures reality. 
Politics and money do go hand in hand though.
Many people who use the drug to treat chronic conditions are priced out of their state’s medical marijuana program.
Quote: The study found that the average amount Minnesota patients paid for medical marijuana each month was $316.
Like that’s OK because its nearly the same as everywhere else. If you don’t have $300 it doesn’t make any difference.
Also the people who are using it to deal with their problems are usually broke because they cant work from the problems they are dealing with. At least his insurance is covering some of it. Health insurance in Canada wont cover it until it gets a RX number and that’s not going to happen.
yup, one thing you learn quickly is that sick people are poor people. Disabled people are poor people. Sick & disabled people already have to fill out forms & applications to get health care & insurance benefits, the last thing they want to do is fill out more forms & applications just to get herbal medicine. I’ll never pay a doctor $250/year to get herbal medicine as the State requires here.
Interesting to note that most state “legalization” programs from the government shut down the people who were caregiving as the first order of business. California’s law wiped out the non-profit collectives that were serving patients. Oregon lost hundreds of low-cost medical providers. Maine and Oklahoma are the only states left with laws that allow caregivers.
They did the same here, remove the competition, and then whack up the prices.
Nah man, I’m pretty sure there are several that allow caregivers. Of states I’m familiar with, Michigan is one (see Cannabis Regulatory Agency) and New Mexico is another (see https://www.nmhealth.org/about/mcp/svcs/pcg/). I know caregivers in both states who make a living doing it. I agree with everything else you said, though.
Jersey is ridiculous for this $60 eighths, $120 quarters. Half gram vape carts from $45 (on sale) to $73.
They are ruling out the tax by 2% a year until it’s gone, just went down to 2%. One dispensary didn’t even drop the price. Willing to screw patients out of 2% the greedy bastards.
Is that 1/8 of an ounce? 3.5 grams? Shit, pricy! We’d better be the best growers on earth!!!
Yup. Ridiculous.
thanks, good to know!!! Michigan seems similar to Maine, they’ve been able to organize and protect themselves. People in Mass. go up to Maine to buy meds because the prices and quality are so much better than the corporate dispensaries.
In Maine the caregivers can have retail stores and there’s no limit on the number of patients they can serve, you just show up. Actually doesn’t Colorado still have medMJ stores or caregivers also???
still reading about this - so in May the New Mexico MJ bureaucracy tried to eliminate reciprocity and was slapped back by a judge.
In Maine the bureaucracy tried to change the rules to basically wipe out the medMJ caregiver businesses, in response they got a new law passed that says the bureaucracy must get permission from the legislature. These bureaucracies try to slowly re-instate prohibition or set things up so the Wall Street-backed corporate dispensaries can get rid of everyone else.
this is a good website…so in Michigan caregivers are limited to 5 patients, I think Mass. just changed rules to allow caregivers to serve 5 people,but it’s so restrictive no one does it
https://www.medicalmarijuana.com/state-medical-marijuana-laws/
Ya, you think it’s bad under prohibition…just wait till it’s all “legal”. Unless you pay someone off with millions, your weed will still be illegal…but come with more fines, more jail, and the IRS and every state tax agency fucking you up the ass like never before. People will be wishing we still had prohibition, and a bit of lube.
I personally think anyone for legalization and government control (that’s what this legalization is looking like) are fools.
