Freedom for All!

[JackLuis]

How Legal Weed Is Killing America’s Most Famous Marijuana Farmers

Dope Growers are now free to go broke!

 

[BotanyBoy]

All those wonderful progressive California regulations....making sure only rich well connected folks can participate forcing the whole industry into the hands of a smaller and smaller number of richer and richer hands. Sending tens of thousands of farmers packing or back into the black market.

Typical Democrat shit....

Glad I got out while the getting was good.

 

[JackLuis]

Glad I got out while the getting was good.

The fact that anyone can grow his own now, hit the market harder than the Democrats. But don't you love the capitalistic action of the unseen hand of the Free Market?

 

[BotanyBoy]

The fact that anyone can grow his own now, hit the market harder than the Democrats. But don't you love the capitalistic action of the unseen hand of the Free Market?

What free market? Didn't you read the article you linked? You gotta have BIG money to get into the weed farming market now.




Put the (D) Kool-Aid down for 2 seconds and read the article you linked bubba.....

An array of upfront fees and stricter regulations, combined with a lack of access to bank loans, are all reasons farmers in Humboldt and neighboring Mendocino and Trinity counties say they can’t afford to remain in the legal market. Only 2,200 farmers applied for cannabis licenses last year, according to California NORML, compared with the estimated 30,000 or more growers who existed in the Emerald Triangle pre-legalization. It’s hard to know how many of the rest are continuing to grow in the illicit market. An estimated 10 percent of growers have simply shut down. Some expect that number to rise fivefold by year’s end.

“The regulatory climate in California and the cost of all of those regulations certainly does make the prospect of a viable small farm really small,” says Trillian Schroeder, a cannabis farm consultant in Humboldt County.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...s-regulations-227041?utm_source=pocket-newtab


It's not that anyone can grow their own.

Most people don't have time for that shit.

It's the over the top regulations and artificially incurred expenses that shut all but the biggest and best connected farmers down.

The building and planning department said her papers were in order, and all she needed was her county cannabis license in order to build. She waited eight months for that license. When it was issued, it included extra requirements for the pond, raising the cost from $20,000 to as high as $100,000. She had to scrap the pond altogether, and the lack of water meant she grew and harvested only about 10-15 percent of her annual yield, even after paying $53,000 in canopy taxes and fees.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...s-regulations-227041?utm_source=pocket-newtab


Even the STATE itself is willing to admit it fucked up and crushed all but the biggest farmers...

The California state government is not oblivious to the fact that taxes and regulations have overburdened the state’s cannabis industry. In fact, it’s suffering too.

State-wide revenue from cannabis taxes in 2018—the industry’s first year under full legalization—met only 30 percent of projections set by the state. California projected $1 billion in tax revenue, but at the end of 2018 had seen only $345 million, according to the Orange County Register.

On the local level, Humboldt County decided this year to charge its farmers the canopy taxes after the harvest rather than before growing, so farmers can pay from their revenue. And in Sacramento, a law called the “Temporary Cannabis Tax Reduction Bill” was introduced by state Rep. Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) and California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, but did not pass out of committee.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...s-regulations-227041?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Didn't pass out of committee because the corrupt ass California (D)'s are trying to squeeze that whole industry into the hands of the few....the elites, their objective all along just like most industries in CA. That's why your state despite being one of the largest economies on the planet also has the highest wealth inequity and highest poverty rates of any state in the union.

When it cost six figures just to apply for a MAYBE? You shut down all the smaller, poorer farmers, those most vulnerable allowing only the largest and best connected....just like Democrats intended all along.

 

[JackLuis]

But, but the Chamber of Commerce and Wall St. said there would be a Free Market!

It is getting so that you can not trust anyone!

 

[BotanyBoy]

But, but the Chamber of Commerce and Wall St. said there would be a Free Market!

It is getting so that you can not trust anyone!

(D) controlled California would never allow a free market.

You can trust people, you can't trust the government, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 

[JackLuis]

(D) controlled California would never allow a free market.

You can trust people, you can't trust the government, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It's not just California, but other states wanted to get in on the deal and strangled the Goose that laid the Golden Bud too.

 

[BotanyBoy]

It's not just California, but other states wanted to get in on the deal and strangled the Goose that laid the Golden Bud too.

Yea....that's that wonderful government oppression you want more of.