I'm watching Murder Mountain - a heartbreaking story of how law and a bunch of small marijuana farmers - "After 20 years of law enforcement attempting to wipe everybody out, it's really ironic that legalization is able to destroy what criminalization couldn't"
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Seems like any time the government gets entangled in an industry, they inevitably make the outcomes worse.
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Yes that is why Somalia is so great.
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Complicated regulatory barries always cause harm, regardless of industry
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You can legalize it and things would be fine for independents in the weed or whoring game but the corporates lobby and regulatory capture the whole thing and make independents have impossible hurdles and be forced into worse situations. classic rent-seeking corporateplutonomyshit
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How about: legalize, but don’t commercialize? We’ve got legal weed in VT but there is no regulated market for it. You can grow it, possess it, and gift it, but not sell it. Tons of home growers.
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Our current approaches to regulation, taxation, and liability create barriers that support accumulators of capital. “Big Industry” happens in every industry. We need a massive re-think.
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You spot relevant issues, but your answers are inadequate. The solution to this problem is neither to not legalize (decriminalizing without legalizing is dangerous) nor to forego health and safety regulation. It is to make the economic rules more balanced for small competitors.
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Right now, the sex work industry seems to be pretty self-regulating? Like, the incentives are aligned - girls have the incentive to go independent (and can, thanks to internet). They have the incentive to get STD testing, to always use condoms (I know a few sex workers who are
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Marijuana production is more like ag/food production and amenable to big business. Sex work is more like hair styling or massage. Big corps don’t really work in those industries. Sure, you have your Supercuts, but also thousands of thriving independent salons.
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