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Veganhealedme

(137 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:15 PM Dec 2014

Grow it here, sell/buy it here, consume it here. BAM, the local economy grows.

Colorado has a buffer against future recessions. Colorado has a built in safeguard that will keep our state's economy afloat throughout future or current hard times. Hard times may come but we won't starve, because of this economic gift of sustainability.

Imagine that..
A self-sustainable sector of Colorado's economy growing so large that its economic footprint is now easily measurable.

Marijuana is now becoming a large and fast 'growing' sector of Co's economy. Pot's economic footprint is now a growing slice of Co's economic pie. Measurable growth, profits, job creation, job security, lower unemployment.

And WOW, it IS providing jobs, dignity, economic security for those now employed in the thriving pot industry.

Old abandoned prisons, factories etc are being re-purposed into gigantic grow facilities. Creating, re-invigorating areas/towns that were depressed into now growing economies.

Blight is being reversed.

Fully self-sustainable. Local.

Think about it like this, if our nation adopted the concept of grow it here, buy it here, consume it here to factories and manufacturing, how our national economy would grow..

abandoned factories could be re-purposed into working factories with good paying jobs that breathe life into local economies.

Fully self-sustainable. A national economy built on that won't go into recession.

Grow it/manufacture it/make it here. Buy it here. Consume it here.

National self-sustainability.

There's new life in Colorado. It's green and smells skunky. It also makes us more recession-proof.

Legal Marijauna.

It will take potheads to teach America the lesson of sustainability.

Pothead Economics 101.

Sustainability is how we 'roll' in Colorado.


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