“The Home Office defended the seizure.”
“Grey and black market consumers don’t get hit with stiff sales and excise taxes, and if they can still get it from the guy down the street, why pay those high, state-legal prices?”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/30/why_are_californias_legal
“In response, state regulators will temporarily stop processing new applications for marijuana licenses starting June 15.”
“The regulated sales will face competition from a black market which is thriving. The legal cannabis is expected to be more expensive and less available because of strict regulations, due to which buyers would have no reason to switch to the former from illegal pot.”
“That drug-sniffing dogs must die in the absence of prohibition will not become a real problem unless government chooses to make it so.”
“It’s the culmination of a long, arduous effort to legalize medical marijuana in the Sooner state.”
Read more: https://www.alternet.org/drugs/oklahoma-newest-medical-marijuana-cannabis-state-months-end
“A confidential informant claimed to have bought pot from him for a total of $100. On April 16, 2015, the task force battered Betton’s door open with a ram, then almost immediately opened fire, releasing at least 29 bullets, nine of which hit Betton. An expert hired by Betton’s legal team estimates that over the course of his lifetime, his medical bills will run between $6 million and $17 million.”
Echoes from the past in modern-day Amerika:
“States that have legalized either recreational or medicinal marijuana now lead the way in companies which are dropping drug tests.”
“The moves make perfect sense. What else should happen to convictions for a victimless crime when that victimless behavior is now no longer a crime?”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/18/marijuana_conviction_expungements_moving
“Fewer politicians are in a position to say ‘no’ to legal marijuana. Especially in cash-strapped areas of the country where jobs and opportunities are hard to come by.”
Read more: https://www.caseyresearch.com/pot-will-revive-small-town-america/