Well here we are, October 18th 2018, and I am not standing in the smoking ruins of my civilization. They made the demon weed legal yesterday, and the world did not come to an end.
The Ontario Cannabis Store web site was getting something like 100 orders per minute, and sold out not long after it opened. Similar situations across Canada at the Official Legal Weed Outlets. All shelled out before noon, from what I'm seeing in the news.
So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. The official government plan was Fail On Purpose. Make weed "legal," sort of. License its sale and growth, regulate and tax the living shit out of it, and make sure there's not enough for everybody.
Obviously the next few years the private sector will sue their way into profitability, because the way things are set up right now can't survive a court challenge. Its as if a high school cheer leading squad was given the job.
What I find interesting is the media buzz on this whole thing follows much the same pattern as when a state in the USA declares shall-issue concealed carry permits will be the law. Tons of fear-mongering, End Of The World, Blood In The Streets stories get circulated. Then the day arrives that everybody's been propagandized into terror about... and nothing happens. It was all bullshit. They were winding us up to sell papers.
By Tuesday you're not going to see the word "cannabis" in the news. That's what's going to happen. So make your life better and do what I do. Cut your TV cable, shut off the radio, and don't look at the newspapers. They're all lying to you about virtually everything, all the time, just like they lied about weed.
"LET them die!" James T. Kirk.
Some years ago I realized I was paying $50+ a month for cable... and watching perhaps a nickel's worth and so gave it up. I didn't miss TV. Now when I go someplace with a set on, I find it more annoys me than anything. And that's the program(s), not the commercials! Groucho Marx was right about the educational value of TV -- going into another room to read a book is the right move.
ReplyDeleteGreetings Orvan.
ReplyDeleteOf late I find that the more I avoid the media and their bullshit, the better informed I am.
I haven't watched television in twenty years. I don't miss it. It does make some conversations awkward, when I don't understand that someone is talking about Something On TV--but then I've always been a solitary sort, and the older I get, the less desire I have to converse with people who blather about Something On TV anyway.
ReplyDeleteRome wasn't destroyed in a day. These comments could apply to all kind of destructive laws. Doesn't mean anything.
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