interesting - small-time politicos vote to bar a cannabis store from a building that’s been empty for 3 years. very Stalinist! It’s fascinating how we live in this age of political correctness, we must tear down statues from a war that happened 160 years ago, but open discrimination against cannabis people is perfectly OK.
It’s like the fancy white people need someone to piss down on, to make themselves feel better, and all the old targets are unavailable due to P.C…the cannabis community serves as a convenient proxy for the unwashed masses of the lower caste…
Marblehead says no to retail pot shop Aro Cannabis
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“Would we be having these discussions or questions if this was a coffee shop, a butcher shop, a restaurant?” she asked her colleagues. “I don’t think we would be saying no to a butcher shop or restaurant or a coffee shop in a building on that downtown corridor that’s been vacant for three years.”
Around these parts commercial rentals are so expensive that the only places that can survive are nail salons, and “cash” businesses. There are quite a few dispensaries. And a bubble tea place. All the other store fronts are vacant and have been for a long time.
Some were built years ago and have never been occupied. Not once.
After years of aggressively eradicating cannabis, they should not only encourage home growing, government should restore cannabis to the wild weed it once was. Growing along roadways, vacant lots, wherever else nature intended. Not replace the thugs our mothers warned us about and jack up prices beyond reasonable.
We shall not be free till the weed is free (allowed to grow as it did before government intervention). Yeah, I know just pissed off a bunch of outdoor growers thinking of all the strange & wild pollen attacking their ladies. (Never a perfect world).
The only interest the gov’t has in weed is the tax revenue. Homegrow bites into that. Repopulating wild cannabis is the equivalent of the gov’t giving you a hug, and if they suddenly want to give you a hug it’s just to try and grab your wallet.
I love these reports on the “illicit market” and home-growing…they’re all what we call a WAG in engineering - wild-ass guess. Of course there is no data behind them because no one alive knows how much weed is being grown & sold in the underground.
Maybe it’s just my circle of friends but I think the 25-30% market share estimates you see for the regulated market are way too big. If you include homegrown weed I’m guessing the “regulated” market in my state is less than 10% of the total weed consumed.
Homegrown weed harvest must have increased 1000% or more since legalization…and from the people I know selling illicit herb, business is WAY up since decrim and legalization. After we became the first state to decriminalize in 2008 I was buying weed from a guy who works the college market in Boston, he said his sales went up 300% after we passed the decrim referendum.
