CA pot dealers nervous about lost revenue
| Pot dealers in Humboldt County are starting to freak out about the potential legalization of recreational marijuana use in California:
"The legalization of marijuana will be the single most devastating economic event in the long boom-and-bust history of Northern California," said Anna Hamilton, 62, a Humboldt County radio host and musician who said her involvement with marijuana has mostly been limited to smoking it for the past 40 years.
Local residents are so worried that pot farmers came together with officials in Humboldt County for a standing-room-only meeting Tuesday night where civic leaders, activists and growers brainstormed ideas for dealing with the threat. Among the ideas: turning the vast pot gardens of Humboldt County into a destination for marijuana aficionados, with tours and tastings - a sort of Napa Valley of pot.
Many were also enthusiastic about promoting the Humboldt brand of pot. Some discussed forming a cooperative that would enforce high standards for marijuana and stamp the county's finest weed with an official Humboldt seal of approval.
I'm having a difficult time feeling too sympathetic to their plight, but I do admire the cojones involved in showing up to a town meeting on the topic.
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Anyone in who enters any profession and thinks that it will stay stagnate is a moron who doesn't understand at all that fields of work evolve and to continue to work in a profession you have to keep up. Grow better weed, make more money. This is a well established market which is probably bigger than most estimates. Humboldt County could become the Amsterdam of the United States and I already call it the Madagascar of the United States. Shit. I love this place :D Only grow-tards and solely profession dealers will be affected by the legalization. And to what extent? Probably not much. No matter what happens, the weed flows up here...
You are soo right!! I also prefer the dangerous and unreliable services of a shady Mafia-run business over the checked and certified goods of a legal vendor! I mean, where is the thrill in buying legal pot in a friendly shop? Also, where is the adventure, when pot can no longer be cut or laced with glass dust and other crap?
You're so scared of corporations that you'd rather have people locked in cages for producing and consuming Cannabis? Honestly, stick your political apathy in your pipe and fucking smoke it.
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