Re: What's the future of the marijuana industry?

In case Marijuana becomes legal within the next 10 years, most of the drug cartels around the world will lose their main source of income. Grin

Also, the national parks within the United States will no longer be cut down to plant hemp by the Mexican drug cartels. Also, the state and federal governments will benefit a lot, in terms of tax money.

If they legalized Marijuana and Cocaine, the cartels would be out of business.

Legalize cocaine? Yeah , I just want to see the country where this will become legal.
Pure curiosity , would you want to live there?

Cocaine is a horrible drug. It is generally considered to be a "hard" drug as it has very serious effects on you and your body. Any government that seriously considers to legalize cocaine is just crazy

Why is it considered hard and why is it horrible? Because people abuse it?

Cocaine has been used medicinally, ceremonially, and recreationally since the pre-Columbian era. Pope Leo XIII carried around a flask of cocaine-laced wine called Vin Mariani. The 1886 recipe for Coca-Cola included coca leaves. Sigmund Freud even wrote about its use for exhilaration and lasting euphoria. It wasn't until 1903 that the American Journal of Pharmacy wrote about its ability for abuse by "degenerates".

The point of decriminalization is to get help for abusers instead of jail time and to take money out of the pockets of illegal gangs/cartels that profit from it. Most of the time through extreme violence. Any government that doesn't seriously consider decriminalization is just crazy.

The reason that cocaine is considered to be a "hard drug" is because it is so easy and so common to get addicted after using it for recreational purposes just a few times (if not the first time). Help is already available to people who abuse cocaine and other hard drugs, it is just that if they are caught with a certain amount of it they will also face criminal charges. The criminal aspect of it will likely cause people to not try it (and not get addicted to it) in the first place.

Wishful thinking at best.

All Prohibition does is create an extremely lucrative black market for people to profit off of.... and create an equally lucrative for-profit private prison complex. There are billions of $ to be made. Do you really think people are going to stop doing it because of a silly law they don't even agree with, infact a law that they look down upon?

Millions of people still end up doing coke despite the law. Out of those millions, maybe 3-4% actually develop hardcore addictions. It's not as high as you think, but you are conditioned to think it's higher due to the propaganda.

Cocaine after all is a stimulant not that much stronger than coffee unless you take a large amount of it in its most purified refined form.

Asian immigrants would chew coca leaves before going to work before it was made illegal, this allowed them to work longer and harder than their white counterparts.

If you dig deep enough, you will find that prohibition has much of its roots entrenched in racism.

But anyway.. enough of the history lesson..