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ARCATA, Calif. The pot market is crashing in Californias legendary Emerald Triangle.
The closure of hundreds of marijuana dispensaries across California and a federal crackdown on licensing programs for medical pot cultivation are leaving growers in the North Coast redwoods with harvested stashes many cant sell.
Purportedly legal medical cultivators are fleeing to the black market. So much cheap weed is getting dumped in the college town of Arcata, some local dispensaries say business is down 75 percent.
Even the regions itinerant and colorful bud trimmers are going broke.
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120505/PC16/120509458&slId=2
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)An entire industry, all legal and above board now gone. Now illegal.
pscot
(21,024 posts)And the president has never offered one word of explanation. Basically, he lied to us about what he meant to do.
villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)I do hope the federal government can get its' shit together and end this wasteful, wicked, greed based insanity.
Thanks for the thread, Webster Green.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)I guess the marijuana lobby doesn't have enough cash to give the President for his campaign coffers.
The candidates are more alike than you think. I can't wait to see what we're promised for the next term.
enough
(13,259 posts)TBF
(32,062 posts)The moderates he needs to appeal to will buy MJ if they want/need, and so will the progressives who are disgusted with him on civil liberty issues. This is why Ron Paul made inroads with some of them. This is crazy. He could frame it the same way he did yesterday in Ohio with womens' issues (which was very powerful) - let people know the administration is working on the medicinal marijuana issue and how to safely legalize/regulate. This is our way forward on this issue, not sticking our heads in the stand.