Here’s an Idea

Tuesday 26 October 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery + Legislation + War on Drugs

Let’s continue to support the arrest hundreds of thousands of people a year, SWAT raids, and puppycide with our immoral War on Drugs so that we can maintain artificially high pot prices for a few people who operate in the dark. NPR:

Another grower named Jay doesn’t want to use his last name because part of his crop ends up on the black market. He cultivates his plants in his garage, like so many others in a cottage industry of mom-and-pop pot growers who fuel the economies of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties, known as the “Emerald Triangle” in Northern California.

Everyone’s really scared of the prices going down. We all have invested money here. We all live here. I have a daughter here. My wife’s a teacher.

Jay worries that legalization will flood the market as people grow their own marijuana and bigger businesses take over.

“Everyone’s really scared of the prices going down,” he says. “We all have invested money here, we all live here. I have a daughter here, my wife’s a teacher. Everyone’s scared because we don’t know what the prices are going to be. Already, the prices have gone down and down. It’s harder to sell it.”

Oh no! Pot prices will go down and you’ll lose some profit! That’s a perfectly legitimate reason to maintain prohibition and the incarceration of millions of people in the coming years.

Fuck off, you protectionist fucks. Get a real fucking job.

2010-10-26  »  madlibertarianguy