Five Steps to Legalizing Cannabis – Cannabis | weed | marijuana

What are the five steps to legalizing cannabis?

We shouldn’t look to Canada. They screwed it up so much that the government lost money selling weed. Also, the government never legalized the old grower group (colloquially known as BC Bud). And despite nearly half a decade after legalization, no cannabis records have been erased.

However, cops and politicians cashed in well.

What about the United States? They’re not good either. It’s still illegal nationwide. And even if you’re in a state with a more open cannabis market, you have a massive cannabis banking problem.

Maybe Germany? They will try legalization. But it looks more like the same “public health” approach that ruined Canada’s experience.

Uruguay maybe?

Or none of these countries got it right. Maybe it’s time to get serious about cannabis legalization. Tax reforms, banking services and freer markets will make a big difference.

But there are five additional steps governments around the world could take.

Although drastic, these five steps to legalizing cannabis will bring freedom and fairness to the herb. No more corporate profiteering and harming consumers with products and services they don’t want.

Five Steps to Legalizing Cannabis – 1. No Licensing

When implementing the five steps to legalizing cannabis, “no licensing” should come first. Governments should not have business licenses for growers, cultivation facilities, dispensaries, budtenders and other cannabis industry personnel.

As an immediate result, the supply of cannabis would increase, prices would fall, and a greater variety of cannabis products and services would enter the market.

To the naysayers – competing voluntary accreditation agencies are taking the place of mandatory state licensing. This is the case when the cannabis industry believes that accreditation would benefit their reputation and that consumers care about reputation and are willing to pay for it.

Suppose your country had this kind of free market for cannabis. Suppose you have three local options: Pharmacy A with private accreditation from a reputable source, Pharmacy B with private accreditation from a non-reputable source, and Pharmacy C with no accreditation at all.

As you no longer believe that government bureaucrats have “standardized” cannabis goods and services, you are more willing to make discriminatory decisions.

2. Eliminate regulations and restrictions

When implementing the five steps to legalizing cannabis, eliminating government regulations and restrictions is paramount to success. In Canada, that means Health Canada is out. In America, the FDA and other busy organizations don’t have to deal with cannabis.

All of this political bureaucracy increases costs and destroys innovation and discovery.

We should expect the results in the cannabis industry. Costs and prices would come down, and a greater variety of better products would come to market faster.

A private regulatory system ensures that consumers act according to their own risk assessment. Instead of the risk assessment imposed on them by “public health” and other busy bureaucrats.

The cannabis industry would use competition (providing better product descriptions and guarantees) to attract customers and protect itself from product liability lawsuits.

3. Make insurance great again

As with cannabis, governments over-regulate insurance companies. However, this does not have to be the case. Here, the five steps to legalizing cannabis include reforming other industries.

Take the true health risks of cannabis. If you have asthma or lung problems, you should not smoke. If you suffer from anxiety, you should also think twice before eating this 100+ mg THC edible.

Some of our actions are under our control and therefore not insurable. But insurance companies want to cover uninsurable risks, either because of government coercion or for profit reasons. This groups real risks alongside uninsurable risks, which distorts prices.

One of the many problems facing the American healthcare system is how the health insurance system works. It is not a “free market”. If Americans used auto insurance the way they use health insurance, no one would ever pay for gas. They would only bill the insurance.

Clearing the weeds will require massive deregulation of the insurance industry. We must restore freedom of contract. Insurers must be free to offer policies to anyone, to include or exclude any risk, and to discriminate against any group or individual.

Uninsurable risks should not be covered. Without government involvement, prices in a free insurance market would reflect real insurance risks. Reform would help restore individual responsibility. And that helps the cannabis industry.

4. No subsidies

In implementing the five steps to legalizing cannabis, perhaps the most controversial is removing subsidies. But subsidies only create more of what you subsidize.

Look at the number of military veterans in need of medicinal cannabis. Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing it, and costs have skyrocketed.

Well, most Canadians I suppose would rather see military veterans get their medicinal cannabis. We can withdraw the money from the pensions of our useless politicians at any time.

Ultimately, however, we want to abolish the subsidies altogether.

5. Addiction is a social construct

These five steps to legalizing cannabis sound great if you’re a cannabis user, breeder, dispensary owner, extraction team, or any other player in the cannabis industry.

But what about the common people? Aren’t drugs bad mmmkay and that’s why they’re regulated by the government?

Public health would have you believe that traditional treatment approaches like 12-step programs and rehabilitation centers are necessary because individuals are becoming powerless over their drug habits.

(Interestingly, when you replace “drug” with “food” you immediately stop helping addicts shame fat and contribute to the “food culture” that “intersects” with racism and white supremacy.)

So the social disadvantages of addiction are why we don’t liberalize the drug economy. But where is this overwhelming evidence that addiction is a disease that needs to be treated by “experts”?

Why not equip individuals with the necessary knowledge and tools to make positive life changes?

Maybe addiction isn’t a disease. Perhaps it is a choice individuals make to engage in certain behaviors. People struggling with bad habits can change their behavior and overcome their addiction through self-discovery and personal growth.

Recognizing this truth is a crucial step in legalizing cannabis. Because talking about the alleged “harms” of cannabis becomes nonsensical when you throw the “brain disease” theory of habit formation overboard.

Five steps to legalizing cannabis – According to the state

But we can’t have that. Disempowering individuals and destroying habitual traditions is what modern Western governments are all about. The five steps to legalizing cannabis, she says, must reinforce the belief that our entire civilization will fall apart without government intervention.

Legalizing cannabis must reinforce the belief that addiction is a fundamental biological process that, in turn, can only be solved through government intervention.

And then the final step in legalizing cannabis, according to democratic governments, is taxation. Because the only way to “solve” the problems caused by the drug war is to continue the drug war under a different name and with different tactics.

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