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RE: My Thoughts On The Cole Memorandum And How Little Its Removal Actually Means For The Industry

in #cannabis8 years ago

Exactly. I was talking about it with a friend late last night(not an industry guy. Just another guy like me on the outskirts trying to get our hustle on.) We were thinking about the fact that aside from the fact that we now have thousands of large scale farms that are in full compliance with state law, and providing thousands of jobs, we also have thousands of stores providing thousands of decent paying jobs(they tend to make more than coffee baristas. Maybe not as much as a good bartender, but the perks are there.)

On top of that, most of the states that have passed rec allow private households to have a certain number of plants(4 in Oregon, 8 I think in Washington, not sure about the other states, it changes.)

So to shut this down, they would have to destroy thousands upon thousands of jobs, destroy millions of homes, and most importantly, they would need a reason to justify launching such an offensive to the public.

The majority of people in law enforcement don’t want to see legalization overturned. All it will do is take away American jobs, destroy American lives, and put control of a drug back into foreign hands, and give the cops one more thing to spend time on to take them away from violent crimes.

The only people pushing for any regression in the law are people who owe their political careers to Big Pharma(pretty much anyone who has ever been a member of the US Senate, which which Jeff Sessions was...)