The fact that current law says anyone w priors can't start a dispensary is shit & on a certain lvl it's worse than keeping it illegal
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Ppl who want to keep it illegal are wrong & stupid, but they have a moral belief. Ppl who want to legalize but blackball dealers are thieves
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And when OH went to the point of saying it'd be a monopoly for the 10 or so millionaires backing the bill it was too disgusting to vote for
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A law that makes selling illegal for everyone is misguided puritanism, a law that makes it illegal for everyone but 10 ppl is just feudalism
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And yes it's already the case that black ppl get hit hard by drug laws and white ppl don't but that doesn't mean you have to formalize that
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I read an article abt a SF VC-backed startup w millions of dollars to sell "Bob Marley brand weed" & I didn't know I could still get so mad
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Meanwhile even in states w "legalization" ppl w/o the dispensary license still get busted on the reg for interstate trafficking
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In any other goods market "disruptors" have to compete w existing suppliers w networks & experience but in this case they're all in jail
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Is amnesty likely to ever pass? No. Will legalization w/o amnesty make a lot of ppl's lives better? Sure, but I don't have to be happy
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The ppl getting million-dollar startups to sell legal weed are prolly 100% convinced they're the progressive good guys, too
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The white kid interviewed abt Marley-branded pot was so earnest abt how much respect he had for Bob Marley's legacy etc. etc.
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How would he know he's doing anything wrong? He's not arresting anyone, he didn't write the laws, he just discovered this open market
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This leads into a history of how alcohol prohibition led to no long-term decrease in US drinking but did make the industry suck
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