The corporate epidemic and meth.

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23. 1 Helpful factor in those hard-hit places could be cannabis legalization

If cannabis legalization is handled properly (oriented towards small-operators, dispensaries and growers rather than big
distributors favored by outside investors, as recent votes in California have enabled), the profit$ can mean new business opportunities
for the "little folks" in the economically hard-hit communities.

Local tax funding will increase somewhat, for sure.

Also, money will be saved by local citizens on Corporate Pre$cription drug$, some of which can be readily replaced by cannabis.

Permitting recreational use increases the market even more, and also holds potential for "local flavor" attractions,
in a similar manner that small but prestigious high-quality wineries
can attract tourists to a region.

Add a few locally-owned cafes, snackshops, motels and maybe a local music festival or 2, and rural America can re-discover
the local flavors it once had, before "mega-corporation saturation" set in.

Also, in areas with decent agricultural lands, inexpensive hemp, with 3-times the tensile strength of cotton, could be grown, to feed into local clothing, or camping, or sailing products manufacturing industries, yielding more jobs and non-corporate-controlled opportunity.

Cannabis-hemp is all good for these impacted places in these ways, and probably others I haven't even thought of.

Cannabis/hemp are enemies of The Corporate Way Of Doing Things.
That's part of the reason they were originally banned back in the 30s---So a whole new generation of parasitic industries could rise and dominate, with all their connected environmental degradation and intertwined profit-connections.

Those parasitic industries have had their day.

If we keep the Corporates out of cannabis legalization, the most parasitic industries will suffer permanent setbacks.


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And areas like those mentioned in the article, smashed-down by Corporate Economics, can have another aid in their recovery.