RE: What Cannabis Does to People (2019 mini-documentary)

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jacobelprodigy (44)in #threespeak • 5 years ago

I wish there was a bit more context, I agree most people when just smoking pot are peaceful, but what exactly is going on with the prohibition of it? Selective government raids like America has in Washington state? Who in the connected and corporate community would you Like to see raided? I'll buy some of their stock and it'll be tanked in a few days 🤔

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drutter (69) 5 years ago

Thanks for your comment :)
I have years of video footage, and had to condense it down for the length of this video, so thanks for asking questions.
For more background about the activism I was involved in, I have a 20 minute short documentary here. It shows how Canada's "legalization" impacted the free market and existing culture here.

I fixed their "mission accomplished" announcement for them ;)

You asked who in the corporate community would like to see peaceful small cannabis growers and sellers raided. The answer is a trio: the government (and those connected like the court system and prison system), law enforcement (more than 50% of their budget is the 'war on drugs'), and private insiders/investors (who often end up being government or ex-government officials who made a living on prohibition for decades). Now they want to grow it and sell it to us, and put anyone outside that regime into prison. Corporations (the licensed producers, or LPs) are lobbying government, demanding they put the "black market out of business". In other words, they are paying thugs to shut down their competition in a "legal" way. It's not right, but they've made it law, and it's happening. Now in Vancouver, the dispensaries which have paved the way for legalization, and fought against prohibition for years, many of them suffering huge losses and going to prison to make it happen.... they're all being shut down. A few "legalized" dispensaries, owned by rich insiders, are popping up. Their cannabis is very low quality, in massive amounts of plastic packaging, covered in warnings and bright labels. It was grown with 93 approved chemical sprays (some of which cause harm when burned, as in with cannabis use). It is irradiated to remove bacteria (which burns off the trichome heads, reduces terpenes, and stops the curing process, resulting in weed that smells like hay and burns harsh in your throat). They're even talking about coating it with invisible nanoprobes that only scanners can detect, to stop the "black market" cannabis from entering the legal system. Truth is, the black market is where the good prices are, and where the good quality is, and where the selection is. The legal regime still doesn't allow edibles or extracts, and when they finally do, the dose will be 2.5mg, with a max of 10mg per package. Not even 100mg is enough for a single dose for me, and for my wife @MediKatie, who uses it to fight off cancer in her spine and organs. So the legal regime is meant to fail. The black market is supposed to live on, and thrive. That's how they justify more police, more budgets, more prisons, and new laws such as warrantless searches of ourselves and our property and our belongings. If the state suspects we have "illegal" cannabis, we can be raided, jailed, all our property seized, and more. 14 years in prison for most offenses. And a snitch line, so people can rat on their fellow citizens for "cannabis crimes".