I'm from the Netherlands, where smoking weed has been legal for years. We're famous for it! The crazy part however is that buying weed (outside of a licensed coffeeshop) and growing weed is illegal. This means that coffeeshops are buying their supply from criminals, while perpetrating a crime themselves at the same time. What we need is to legalize the production and wholesale part of the chain (no pun intended) as well. I think a system like Paragon could do wonders for the Dutch system as well.
How can smoking weed be legal but buying and growing it illegal, it makes no sense. It's almost as if the government didn't want to get taxes from cannabis sales and wanted people to buy from criminals.
It doesn't make sense. There are however more and more political parties who propagate the legalisation of the entire proces. That way you can grow the weed in controlled surroundings, more like the production of medicinal marijuana. Then you can better control THC values, use of pesticides/chemicals etc. I think countries like the US (parts of it) are actually outpacing us by now, because we can't get our shit together. I'd love it if a Paragon/blockchain could help us do just that.