Patrick Kennedy....why so confused?

[RainDog]

74. "Cunning privatization"

LOL. no, no propaganda in that characterization.

Some people have looked at this issue and think big tobacco, etc. are just not going to be interested because the profits, after all the hubbub dies down, will not make it worthwhile.

In addition, cannabis culture is much more like craft beer culture than "buying a pack of cigarettes" - the emphasis is upon small quantities of a bud, not a leaf.

No one smokes cannabis leaves anymore.

That stuff is thrown away or used to create butter for use in baked goods, etc.

Personally, I am ALL FOR cannabis products as a spur to the American economy. Not just buds for sale. Cannabis is also grown for its other properties (anti-spasmodic) for health reasons - CBD rich cannabis, rather than THC rich (the two exist in inverse proportion to one another in a single plant, fwiw)

Hemp, which is also cannabis, is the best insulation for housing, etc. etc. etc.... the first legal hemp fields in the U.S. were planted after CO legalized - it's not just about recreational uses. eta: first legal since Anslinger made it impossible in 1937.)

Bio-tech firms are looking at cannabis for treatment of various disorders and illnesses - I'd rather have U.S. firms doing this research, rather than Israel (where we, btw, fund A LOT of cannabis research - and where hospitals now allow patients to smoke cannabis when undergoing chemo, in a designated space.)

I'm not anti-capitalist.

I am pro-regulation of capitalists - in every large or small industry that impacts the health and well being of our citizens and the world.

Where cannabis has been effectively legal for a long time - it's coffee shops, not big tobacco, that's the model.