Vineland Today

[Ian Livingston]

Yeah, I dunno. I pretty much gave up on pot when it went over $50/oz.
Paying $35 for redbud imported from Columbia made some sense, in that
it had to be transported so far. But, when the indica crowd took over
in California and pot turned into big finance, driving up the prices
on even dirt weed, I lost all respect for the whole tribe. Part of why
I am for legalization. If anybody's gonna make that much dough on a
scheme, they oughta pay taxes on it. Besides, it's only the wealthiest
growers and providers that would be hurt. The homeowner could grow all
the sansimilla he wanted, right? People who want top quality can grow
their own. The anarchists within the system would not be affected.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Altered State: California's Pot Economy
> Sasha Abramsky, from "The Nation"
>
>        . . . some of the most vocal opponents of Prop 19 weren't
>        politicians opposed to marijuana use but small growers and
>        medical marijuana advocates, many of them elderly, who felt
>        that the initiative was intended to corporatize marijuana, a
>        Trojan horse that would pave the way for a market takeover by
>        the "Oakland oligarchs." Windows to their Linux, Budweiser to
>        their microbrews. Richard Lee is as loathed by many growers
>        today as were the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (
>        CAMP) enforcers of the Reagan era, so brilliantly portrayed by
>        Thomas Pynchon in his book Vineland.
>
> http://www.thenation.com/article/157001/altered-state-californias-pot-economy
>



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