RE: Obama Hates Medical Marijuana And He Doesn't Care What The States Think
June 28, 2013 at 8:45 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2013 at 8:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Why would any of that matter? We sell plenty of drugs that have dependency issues - and plenty of profit is made. We sell drugs for medicinal, therapeutic, and recreational purposes. Most are regulated in some way or another. Merck, as far as I'm aware, hasn't been stockpiling small arms for their ongoing war against federal authorities (and their consumers).
As far as why rich and powerful cartels would disappear..who's to say that they would? Why would they have to? If the production of their product is protected by the laws that protect any other business transaction - and if the overheads in clandestine or distant production and then transport via-smuggling are reduced a "cartel" would be an entirely different beast. Don't you think? Keep in mind, if the folks that ran these cartels wanted to be farmers (that's what marijuana producers..for example, would be) -they'd already be farmers-. They don't, there isn't enough in it for them. I imagine a certain subset would find some other activity where the legality of the product creates huge potential profits.
As far as why rich and powerful cartels would disappear..who's to say that they would? Why would they have to? If the production of their product is protected by the laws that protect any other business transaction - and if the overheads in clandestine or distant production and then transport via-smuggling are reduced a "cartel" would be an entirely different beast. Don't you think? Keep in mind, if the folks that ran these cartels wanted to be farmers (that's what marijuana producers..for example, would be) -they'd already be farmers-. They don't, there isn't enough in it for them. I imagine a certain subset would find some other activity where the legality of the product creates huge potential profits.
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