JJ Starwalker, a Maine homesteader, voted in support of the amendment. “Growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts,” she says. “It is truly the only effective protest. It is one that can—and will—overturn the corporate powers that be.”
Hahahahaha! Sativa and Indica work fine for me. I get lost in all the terp descriptions. I prefer something more like “it smells like cat piss and tastes like burning tires.” Lol
““It’s got to be one of the worst performing asset classes in the United States, sadly,” said Morgan Paxhia, co-founder of Poseidon Asset Management, a cannabis investment firm.”
“It’s a strategy of preclusion through legislation rather than inclusion through competition,” he added. “This is not what American business is supposed to be about.”
Wow, that article is big news and absolutely chilling. MPP has transitioned from a grass-roots advocacy to corporate shill in just a few years. “Selling out” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
You can see now how important “home growing” was to legalization. Without it, where would we be now? serfs on the plantation
Both sides trying to squeeze the market for tax revenue is still better than both sides being gung-ho prohibitionist, I guess. And they squeeze the alcohol & tobacco markets for revenue, while making your own isn’t illegal unless you distribute it without a license. Seems like a promising precedent.
JAMA also published a study this year that finding that youth marijuana use does not increase after states enact legalization for medical or recreational use, challenging another prohibitionist narrative.