Big Fish Eat the Little Fish……?
Oakland considers licensing, taxing indoor marijuana growers
By LISA LEFF and MARCUS WOHLSEN
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/05/28/2783056/oakland-to-license-tax-indoor.html
Two city council members are preparing legislation that would license a few big growers who would supply the city’s four legal medical marijuana dispensaries.
MESSAGE TO HUMBOLDT POLITICIANS AND FARMERS: The tide is rapidly changing. Sink or swim or we will know what a real economic depression is like.
May 28, 2010 at 1:28 pm
My experience with those who participate in the medical marijuana culture in L.A. convinced me that weed is just a consumer product for city folk, a product like any product that they purchase from their grocery store. Removed from actual growing environments as city dweller are, there’s no recognition of or understanding for the agricultural community, the growing cycle, etc. There’s really not even a clear sense of the drug as the product of a plant that is engineered, cultivated and grown – I recall a popular media report of a women who found that only one particular strain from one particular dealer worked miracles for her autistic son, but she didn’t seem to understand that the strain wasn’t a brand-name. Why wouldn’t such people support a large-scale, fordist-type growing environment? That’s exactly what they’ve done with all of their consumables, unwittingly or unthinkingly encouraging the transition from family farms to corporate food factories.
It’s up to the people who actually grow the products to remind their customers that there are reasons for supporting family farms over factory production. There’s a receptive audience out there, once the issues are made clear to them – as the growing demand for organics has demonstrated – but it’s a mistake to assume that they’ll automatically know something about an industry that they have no exposure to or knowledge about.
We need a sort of “Farm Aid” model of public relations for local growers to raise the issues for those who won’t have had any direct contact with growers. That has to start up here, where the growing culture is strongest; hopefully, it’ll happen before the damage is done.
May 29, 2010 at 9:42 am
With government control comes the destruction of family farms, the two can NOT exist alongside each other. The first thing the communists do is kill the farmers and drive the people into the cities where government controls food, water, and fuel.
Legal weed w/ no taxation-
government filth doesn’t deserve to make money off weed after the crimes they have committed- they deserve to be punished. Anyone who advocates turning over an industry to government filth should not be trusted.