Politics and Pot

People ask me all the time how the industry works. Depending on the day, or week, I can answer that. It is constantly in flux and make absolutely zero sense that cannabis has not been rescheduled to a schedule III drug is politics. Germany has rescheduled the plant, I mean c’mon.

The media also has a feast. The right wing continues to push the narrative that even legal weed causes disorder. Do they think writing more right wing op-eds will stop the process when 88% of Americans want weed to be federally legal.

NYS has made countless mistakes but so has ever other state. The social equity piece has been an absolute cluster fuck although done with good intentions. Countless people have finally got their license but have zero capital to do anything with it. Other have opened, poured all their money into it, and are bleeding. The market will fix all of this, as it does, but I predict there will be some major falling outs to get there.

Even the foundation of the system that was built makes zero sense, from having to have a labor contract before getting a license, crazy security expectations, the checking of the products, the oversight, etc.

I had a conversation with a government official about this. I am political but not political, as in I say what I think. She was aghast of some of the stories I recounted, and how they were losing tax dollars, plain and simple. She asked me why did the OCM do that about a few issues, and I responded, it was either corruption, tit-for-tat or stupidity, take your pick. That is how many see government these days, and the least you can do is get cannabis legalized.

Remove the lobbyists from the pharmaceutical and liquor industries from this equation. The people want their weed. This is about safety. Legal weed is safe. You know where it is coming from, and the state oversees it. As for the right-wingers, perhaps they all need to take a toke.