Bubbas.dad1
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Which is more likely?
Legalization vs. decriminalization ?
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a mongo frog
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Where?
GrassBurner
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Probably Federal decriminalization, which would let states decide how they want to run their programs, is probably the most likely. Uncle Sam doesn't care what you call it as long as your paying those taxes 
Bubbas.dad1
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My thinking is that the states that have seed to sale legislation, have created a bunch of jobs, and a income stream for the state, and maybe local governments. I see them as being loathe to surrender that. My interest is cannibis stocks, especially Canopy Growth. It has a huge valuation that seems to depend solely on full legalization. I don’t see a Canadian company importing weed legally.
Bagginski
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As implemented so far, state “legalization” amounts to a new plantation economy, and one that exists by legal fiat more than any other industry: heavily licensed, heavily regulated, heavily taxed; not the same as the old days of cotton and sugar, true, but different laws to manipulate/work around. I cannot say I’m a fan.
I disagree that federal decriminalization will mean the states make it up for themselves, I think it’s far more likely that such a move will result in the rapid spread of similar plantation-to-retail commercial chains functionally no different than the old-school slavery system. Many states have anti-cannabis laws more strict and harsh than the federal statutes. Even so, the legislative moves in Congress lately are for SCHEDULE III, not outright descheduling. Schedule III includes some OTC stuff, some junk, but no clear lines.
As for jobs created, they’ll be Joe jobs: retail, grow-op grunt work, office droneage; typical of theUS business client, this will mean as few employees as possible handling the workload of two - or three - and the profits being pulled out of the local to enrich the owners. Plenty of ‘legit’ growers out there complaining about how much time and energy they devote to their operations, how little they realize in profit, how much their business costs them, the general expense burden of trying to run a legit small-scale quality grow, the inflexibility and unreason of the legal frameworks they have to operate within.
I disagree that federal decriminalization will mean the states make it up for themselves, I think it’s far more likely that such a move will result in the rapid spread of similar plantation-to-retail commercial chains functionally no different than the old-school slavery system. Many states have anti-cannabis laws more strict and harsh than the federal statutes. Even so, the legislative moves in Congress lately are for SCHEDULE III, not outright descheduling. Schedule III includes some OTC stuff, some junk, but no clear lines.
As for jobs created, they’ll be Joe jobs: retail, grow-op grunt work, office droneage; typical of theUS business client, this will mean as few employees as possible handling the workload of two - or three - and the profits being pulled out of the local to enrich the owners. Plenty of ‘legit’ growers out there complaining about how much time and energy they devote to their operations, how little they realize in profit, how much their business costs them, the general expense burden of trying to run a legit small-scale quality grow, the inflexibility and unreason of the legal frameworks they have to operate within.
oldsilvertip55
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Cannabis should be like a tomato plant put a end to total prohibation of cannabis , much less harmful than alcohol just end civil asset forfiture, repel of the controlled substance in regards to cannabis and any living plant!
