Colorado Cannabis

Greetings Liberty Lovers,

With all the fuckery going on here in Colorado. I'd just like to write about Cannabis and the state in general. Its no mystery to anyone related to the Cannabis market that the state is standing in the way of Cannabis for no reason other than money and lobbying efforts from various companies since the beginning of the prohibition of Cannabis to today. This is really frustrating not only because of just the general fuckery that is the state, but because this is not like trying to legalize heroin. There are clear medical benefits to Cannabis. Here are a ton of studies. Cannabis has been used by humanity for at least 12ooo years. Who the fuck is the state to tell us we can't grow our own fucking plants? (Anywhere for that matter.) I can grow 6 plants but if I have 7 I could still go to prison, you know because arbitrary numbers matter. Colorado has taken something with unlimited potential to be amazing, applied statism to it, and is destroying even the simplest concept of planting a seed and adding water and sunlight. Now don't get me wrong, not everything that has sprung forth from amendment 64 has been absolute garbage, there have been some good things. But like everything else the state involves itself in, it has turned most of it into crap. Opening a new market is supposed to create new opportunity for entrepreneurs, which in turn creates jobs, which in turn provides wages, which in turn stimulates the markets that all the individuals in the businesses, and the businesses themselves in that new market come into contact with. Opening markets is a fantastic thing for everyone involved, including the state because theft via taxation. Many of you probably don't know that Colorado Marijuana is fascist weed. (The merger of state and corporate towers) That's right. A64 is a state ran franchise on marijuana where the entrepreneur takes all the risk and the state of Colorado takes at least 30% off of the top. That's not including all the ridiculous taxation imposed on the plants themselves for movement and other statist dreamed fuckery. This is why I never supported A64, it was nothing close to the "weed is legal for everyone for everything!" that it was marketed as. It's only legal for state sanctioned entrepreneurs to sell marijuana and marijuana products.

There have been some positive results. A market has opened, many businesses that supply marijuana business for any of their business needs from paper to cash registers and much more have seen an influx of sales as the result of opening a this market that they otherwise would have never seen. Tons of jobs have been added to the marketplace. Lots of once vacant commercial rentals now have tenants, and businesses have purchased a wide variety of property.  Cops have less reason to harass you for the purpose of revenue generation which is nothing more then legalized theft via the courts. There is lots of economic good here. But the argument is not that we need heavily regulated corporatist/fascist markets. We need FREE markets. That was why I got into the hemp market. (another good thing about A64) There is vastly more potential and way less government interference. The result of the MMJ market has been very predictable. The state opened the market and it was a good thing for a while. Then A64 passed and in only a short few years the state has consolidated the market via regulation. Now the cost of opening a MMJ shop or a rec shop are so high the average person could never hope to afford to even begin the licensing process, much less afford a store or anything to stock it or even pay the rent/utilities. This has resulted in the return of black market weed to Colorado. And more often than not, by the gram the value is better than what can be purchased in dispensaries due to the fact that the cost of operations increased as a direct result of state standards/regulation and taxation. So thank you to the agorists for providing that service you know damn well there is demand for. The exception to this are the prices on the med side of the fence. Those prices have been fixed to a standard the average person can afford but you have to be given permission by the state to gain access to it. So many liberals are running around out there acting like they give a fuck about the poor by demanding the very state action that keeps people poor by destroying the opportunity for them to pull themselves out of poverty. People need to have access to the markets. Now for the eventual idiot who will say "Well we have to have common sense regulation." you don't get it. We live in a statist environment. There are already a fuckton of laws out there that will end your world overnight if you sell a product to someone that harms them, that only covers the criminal aspect. Let's also not forget that the person who buys a tainted product from you will sue you to fucking death. But I'm not advocating for the absolution of all common sense. Within an industry there are common standards that the producers follow because they do want to make good products and to ignore the simple directions of how to create your product is to ignore how to create your product. When you make it more expensive to go into business you are taking away opportunity from low capital entrepreneurs. There are not people avoiding business because they are afraid to be entrepreneurs, the number one reason a person can't go into a given market is either because they can't afford it or they can't secure the proper licensing or afford that either.

So now we have this amazing hemp plant. Anyone can safely grow that shit in their backyard. They can make a product out of it. They can sell it to the market. They can do it over and over until they can afford some help. They can continue until they save and invest money in their production. When they are selling enough product(s) they can finally open a store. Then they will be able to hire people and provide jobs to the community. They will have already stimulated the local marketplace in the form of purchasing any required materials or services. The most crucial thing to restoring economic stability to a society is restoring upward mobility through entrepreneurship. Long before an entrepreneur can make their fortune by building a business from the ground up they have already invested heavily in their communities through sheer virtue of needing to interact with others because one person can only accomplish so much. If I can't do something myself because there is not enough time, I have to pay someone to do the thing. If I don't know how to do something well because I'm not proficient in doing that thing, or if its only a short term service or a repeat service that's simple, I have to pay someone to do that. Every single one of these interaction are positive and voluntary. Nobody loses in this scenario. This is what hemp can be. Because of the raw fact that cannabis is a threat to corporate money there is  going to be a constant battle for it. There is already data that proves cannabis destroys pharmaceutical profits. This should be enough to tell you that a conglomeration of companies who have asserted a monopoly on creation of treatment products for medical establishment have no interest in free market cannabis. They have damn near endless money and are very influential with the state through lobbying, campaign contributions, and control over the regulatory arms of the state. Not only people in the cannabis industry, but consumers of the cannabis industry, and people who want cannabis products but are still denied them by their local, state, and federal governments need to DEMAND free cannabis markets. The battle is being fought for cannabis on a national scale in Colorado right now. All the other states to follow Colorado are just going to copy what Colorado did or less and more controlled like Washington where its ridiculously difficult to gain access to the market. 

If you read this article upvote it. I'm directly involved in the fight for hemp. Supporting my literature is directly supporting my efforts to fight for free hemp markets. Share this. Awareness needs to be raised. There is lots of pro cannabis stuff floating around the media and that's amazing. But the average person that thinks because cannabis was legalized that the fight is over and that everything is ok. They are sadly mistaken, and more than likely just unaware of the events taking place here. People need to understand that the fight is not over. This is bigger than people just being allowed to get high, this is about restoring economic opportunites to every community. But it will never happen if people don't fight for it. There is much good work being done, but we can do more. We can raise our voices and be loud about what we want. We want to create our own opportunity but we can do it for everybody. We want economic freedom by freeing the cannabis markets. With social media we're all the media now, let's use it.       

                                                                                             

                                                                                                           -Kush Freeman