It should be just like watermelon stands around my part of the world. If I wanna grow some weed and sell it out of the back of a truck why is that is criminal activity but the dudes who can afford the buildings with 100% camera coverage can sell it?
Growing pot is simply farming. It’s no different than growing tomatoes and then selling them out of the bed of a truck in my opinion.
I have seen the setups in several states (both medical only and recreational), and have seen that it’s more than just a sin tax: it’s outright exploitation.
Two years after former President Richard M. Nixon launched a war on drugs in 1971, calling substance use the nation’s “public enemy No. 1,” he made a startling admission during a meeting in the Oval Office. Speaking to a small group of aides and advisers at the White House in March 1973, Nixon said he knew that marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.”
No it’s supposed to be an article about what the Nixon recordings show about his actual belief about Marijuana while he continued the war on drugs. The other quote is great too.