I couldn’t agree more.
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Less competition = higher prices = higher tax income for the feds.
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The odd part to me is… it isn’t clear to me that there was a limit on the number of cultivation licenses issued under the medical program? I found a website of some firm that claimed to help people get licenses and they said there was no hard limit (though the process sounded onerous).
Under rec there is though… 75 “standard” licenses (10k-300k square feet of canopy) and 100 “micro” licenses (up to 10k square feet of canopy).
I’m skeptical that a limitless system makes sense, and even more skeptical that there won’t be sufficient supply to drive prices down once everything is up and running. Mass has a similar population, and in February of last year had just under 300 cultivators (but maximum canopy in MA is 100k square feet and the smallest license tier is capped at 5k sf). Prices haven’t cratered like CA but they have come down, particularly as there started to be more and more retailers.
ETA: They only touch on it but I’m wondering if the couple involved are more mad that MD seemingly passed a law banning Delta-8 and hemp derived Delta-9 products (sounds like that was the core of their business).
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By design, lets the politicians maximize them bribery payments
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Agreed. The reality is that every state that’s legalized has modeled their regulations based on other states. The “shakeout” has yet to occur. Although we are seeing it in Cali, but that’s more of a licensing fee and taxation issue. If you look at it from an alcohol regulation standpoint, the licenses are limitless, but the demand is there (and always will be).
I had that same impression. I have to agree with them. They’re technically protected under Federal law, but not State law (same as Virginia). It’s kind of ironic.
Everyone is looking to cash in, and everyone is looking for loopholes.
It’s going to become even more convoluted when de-scheduling or legalization comes at the Federal level.
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Are there many dispensaries selling HHC products? Seems like something that you’d get mail order or maybe at a local gas station or something.
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the Postal Inspection Service no longer conducts employee investigations.
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That is because the Inspectors get their cut.
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There’s proof. Don’t trust people from Berkeley! 
Is that right? Do you know who does those investigations?
When I was a DoL Claims Examiner (which was nearly three decades ago) they certainly did. The Post Office had more claims than any other federal agency or department.
I remember being in large sorting facilities that had “tubes” criss-crossing the ceiling. The tubes were about 6’ in diameter and had small viewing windows every six feet or so as I recall. The windows were one way mirrors. Postal inspectors would watch the activity on the facility floor from on high.
Edit: Just to be clear, of course Postal Inspectors did all kinds of investigations, not just spying on floor employees. They had offices in the sorting facilities perhaps other places too. They are an arm of federal law enforcement so they are armed, or at least they used to be.
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I had installed some of that stuff when I did construction, so I do agree it is there and it was for spying too.
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I don’t think I would have conceived of weed legalization as a force for lowering health insurance costs, but it does make sense.
There were several other sort of related benefits of legalization, not the least of which is this one -
@Calyxander, thank you for starting this thread so long ago! Really good stuff in here.
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My favourite part of this is the word “drugmakers”
I’m one of those too!
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Well then, you better get ready to take a big hit. Aw hell, a massive hit!
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But think of all the benefits you’ll miss out on from my R&D department!
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Gimmie a moment. I’m busy taking another hit. Not as massive as I’d like, but I’m old and feeble.
In 1969 I collapsed my left lung taking too big a hit of hash, piggie that I was (am?). It was possibly the single most painful thing I’ve ever experienced. For two and a half days, every breath felt like a hot ice pick being shoved into my left lung. I learned you can only do little tiny breaths for so long.
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I know they took a hit when I started growing. Pain pills and a few others are no longer needed. Even the inflammation in my hands and feet are manageable with pot. I never dreamed how much those pills were affecting me. I was a walking zombie more or less. It’s funny in a way. I started smoking pot and my memory and really all cognitive skills have improved. lol
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