Sunday, June 2, 2013

Corporate Marijuana, Coming Soon

Rich people and corporations are jockeying for position to become the General Motors/General Electric of weed, or as the title of this Slate article suggests, the Starbucks of weed.  Oy, vey ist mir, this will not end well.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/jamen_shively_and_the_starbucks_of_pot_obama_should_let_big_business_marijuana.html

Sorry to just lay the site in there like that, but hey, I do the best that I can.

Back to the newest thing in reefer madness . . . I can see as clear as day where big business will take the humble weed.  Right now there's no market for shitty weed, but that will change.  Drug laws are so harsh now that no one in their right mind would risk the long sentences for shitty weed.  You get the same time for ten kilos of cheap, shitty weed that you get for ten kilos of great weed, and you make lots more money on the great weed.

I'm sure that teams of agronomists are already working on a full range of strengths and flavors.  If corporations run the reefer business, there will be plenty of shitty weed available at "reasonable" prices.  There will be a full cascade of different strengths at gradually escalating prices.  Anything decent will be up there, and the really, really good stuff will be priced out of most people's reach, like most sports and concert tickets these days.

When this happens, illegal "bootleg" weed will still prosper.  

Oh, Mr. Fred, you're so pessimistic!  Not without reason.  This ain't my first rodeo. 

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