If you’re interested, the New America Foundation has an event this morning that will be carried on CSPAN2 at 9:30. You should be able to stream it at either of those two links or you can just turn on your teevee. It’s a forum on how to legalize the gangja without increasing abuse of the gangja. Also, how to keep any mega-corporations from dominating the marijuana market. Paul Glastris will be moderating the debate and I think my brother will be making some introductory remarks.
Tune in if you want.
Relevant:
Legalization Models
And the thing is, even though we’re pissed at you for being an obstructionist instead of a positive force, we would still work with you if you wanted to try to push for a different kind of approach in another state (after all, there are 48 more options to show the value of other models).
If you’re serious about it, work on that instead of complaining ad nauseam about the unfettered capitalism on display in Washington and Colorado.
This comment in particular:
Big Marijuana theorists base their marketing predictions on the normal trends in capitalism, that big companies eat the small companies leaving no small companies. Then, according to certain prohibitionists, Big Marijuana is supposed to imitate the marketing stupidity of the tobacco companies by marketing to children and getting itself sued into legal oblivion in state and federal courts.
Another prohib group says the ease of growing one’s own marijuana, or starting a new grow-op and creating a new marketing strategy, will always undercut the Big Marijuana model, and thus decrease or eliminate tax revenues.
Given the prohibitionist and the circumstances, one or the other model is used to claim that legalization will not produce benefits legalizers have identified. The debate is a red herring designed to discourage legalization. It cannot stop legalization once it’s occurred, as speculations get replaced by reality, and reality is the prohibitches’ biggest enemy.
It’s on now. Mark Kleiman speaking.
I do worry about Big Weed. Given what we’ve seen from the tobacco and food industries, they have used science to augment certain aspects of food and tobacco to make it more addictive and less healthy (if that can be a thing with tobacco).
Imagine what the white coats at RJR Reynolds can do with pot…
Can someone clarify to me what exactly they mean when they keep saying “the price is zero”?
Some interesting stuff here, I’ll try and type up my own thoughts later today.