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I always call it pot, which I understand outs me as an old person. But there are so many names for chronic, all over the world. What is your favorite?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I live in California, am nearly 60. We have hundreds in our cities. You have to use weedmap to make sense of it. We also have major cartel violence issues that have tainted the underground scene. The industrialization of weed has brought us this garbage.

Has brought "this garbage" as in more cartel violence or garbage weed?

Because if it's the former, I'd like to know why you think that is, and if you think that cartel violence would've been smaller if instead of slowly decriminalising and having problems with clashing with federal law, it could've been made 100% legal (but regulated) instantly back some years ago?

Because sometimes I tend to think that cartels won't want to give away their markets and since they may also wield indirect political influence, some decriminalisation will help them and some will hurt them.

And I think if it was legal properly and easily as other products the cartel couldn't compete just by being violent because of the amount of people participating in supply. They'd actually have to make good weed. And if they're just growing weed instead of gunning people down they're not really a problem anymore.

And since they could actually use the courts then, and it's smarter for business than straight up wars/gun violence.. They'd become just like another corporation in any other market.

I'm in backwards Finland. Been growing for some decades. Supply has increased and Finland doesn't need to import weed from anywhere so we don't have any cartels really and our own organised criminal organisations are pretty fucking mild compared to anything the US sees. But since Germany legalised, we're prolly gonna follow in like 15 years time.