Weed grower opposition

prop-19

Funny that in Tuesday’s downing of California’s Prop 19, the weed growers of the Emerald Triangle helped lead the charge.

“Prop 19 might have failed at the polls for a wide variety of reasons ranging from current grower opposition for fear of a price drop, to fears of commercial takeover of the marijuana trade by big business…”

So maybe it wasn’t really so strange, after all, but just the not-so-invisible hand of capitalism at work.

UPDATE:  Apparently including too much  also contributed to its defeat:

“Prop 19 failed also because it overreached. One feature attempted to protect the ‘rights’ of employees who get fired or disciplined for using marijuana, including a provision that employers could only discipline marijuana use that ‘actually impairs job performance.’ That is a much higher bar than required by current policy.”

So next time stick to the main points and eliminate all this sticky foo-fa-rah.

0 responses to “Weed grower opposition

  1. But then, half of the US population will decide to move to CA. Which is overpopulated as it is. Could capsize, like Guam, you know 😉

  2. Heh. OTH, the modern history of California is that social practices that begin there spread east.