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Comments on: Barriers to Understanding, Barriers to Change http://cannabisandsocialpolicy.org/barriers-understanding-barriers-change/ Academic, Policy and Industry Evolution Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:58:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: fred krissman http://cannabisandsocialpolicy.org/barriers-understanding-barriers-change/#comment-25298 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:58:39 +0000 http://cannabisandsocialpolicy.org/?p=3833#comment-25298 An important POV Dominic. Kudos! I regard our current “legalization through extreme regulations” through a complementary prism: as mainly about the great need of unfettered “free market” capitalists to find new commodities and markets to exploit in order to delay for a brief time the inevitable downturn of an economy built on the unsustainable idea of continuous growth. Alcohol and gaming legalizations are primarily 20th century examples of that need, and, especially in the aftermath of the 2017 economic crisis, capitalists are pushing aside prohibitionists to convert another highly profitable countercultural sacrament into a heavily policed mainstream market commodity. None of THIS has anything to do with the fundamental questions about historical injustices, current strong-arm tactics, or future oligarchic capture of this particular plant. As one Humboldt grower insisted, “They [the state] are treating cannabis like plutonium, and cannabis farmers like suspected terrorists.” I think “they” do this primarily for increased profiteering, NOT because they really think the herb and its growers are actually a threat to society.

]]> By: Jim MacRae http://cannabisandsocialpolicy.org/barriers-understanding-barriers-change/#comment-25292 Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:31:41 +0000 http://cannabisandsocialpolicy.org/?p=3833#comment-25292 Interesting read, Dominic.
You have made some complex (and somewhat counter-intuitive) concepts quite accessible.
The way you laid out how some of the bad things we are seeing are likely coming from good people trying to do good things is wonderful.

I am looking forward to discussing this with you the next time we are together.

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