Marijuana Predictions for 2021 – How Did We Cope With Our Crystal Ball?

About a year ago I wrote some predictions for 2021. I thought now would be a good time to check my performance. At the end of this year I will give another forecast for 2022. However, I believe that there will be no “big” changes in the next year other than those expected. We are currently in full legalization requests.

Still, let’s take a closer look at how I dealt with my psychic pot skills in retrospect.

Reginalds Misses

1. Cannabis will be fully legalized in North America by the end of 2021

I was so close! Mexico is due to vote on its cannabis system in the next five days if that goes through – 2/3 of North America would be fully legalized. The US was the big disappointment. The Democrats not only had the presidency, a majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate – they had the public all say “YES”. for legalization.

What have you done?

They waited!

They waited for Republicans to come up with a much simpler bill that could potentially achieve much of the social justice that the Democrats wanted to promote with their bills. The problem with reforming social justice through legalization laws is that there will be some fiscal conservatives who oppose it.

You have to deal with it, you cannot force such reparations. You can only create opportunities and then use taxes to create some sort of retroactive system to empower communities negatively affected by the war on drugs. However, this should take the form of social programs that help ex-inmates get jobs, loans, coaching, education, etc. You don’t accomplish this by giving a percentage of the licenses to the people concerned.

This is something that the Democrats don’t really understand. It could be because a large chunk of lawmakers are millionaires and completely disconnected from the grassroots they purportedly serve. Having weed licenses in minority communities doesn’t fix anything, it just creates a welfare system for a few with the hope of helping many.

Since the USA could not make a decision on legalization – I missed my forecast a little. I am still reasonably confident that by the end of the year Mexico will happen “something” that resembles a closed framework.

2. Increase in hemp tests

Unfortunately, another one that I thought was a safe deal again was the US decided to go completely on Uncle Sam on the tests. Currently, a hemp plant has a low test threshold to be considered hemp (below 1%). The bill should raise the limit to 3%, which is still very low. But nothing seems to be moving here either. This is kind of a disappointment as an increase in the THC limit for hemp would actually make it easier for hemp farmers to grow more diverse crops, taking those microdoses of THC to their advantage. We have to see what happens in the future.

What I understood correctly!

3. Covid jobs and the cannabis industry

The cannabis industry now has more than 321,000 jobs and continues to grow. As more and more states were legalized and the federal government toyed with the idea, cannabis actually came as a relief for the Covid pandemic. Combine that with the “Great Resignation,” where more people quit their regular jobs and move to other sectors – my predictions about job growth were spot on. In fact, we will likely be near 400,000 cannabis jobs in the US by the end of this year.

4. New brands of cannabis

Justin Bieber, Jay Z, and a host of other celebrities created new cannabis brands this year. While these are still celebrity brands, we’ve seen this trend increase over the course of 2021. No name brands ally with high-ranking celebrities and overnight – they have sales!

However, along with the increase in prominent brands, many new products came out in 2021 and we can only expect this trend to continue in 2022, especially with international trade around the corner.

5. New paradigm for drugs

This is pretty tough, but I’ll give myself a win here too. The reason for this is that the psychedelic revolution really started in 2021. There have been numerous incredible discoveries made about psychedelics and mental health, and I can’t help but wonder if cannabis was causing this shift.

While we are not quite in a “new paradigm” yet, the vast majority of people are now open to discussing cannabis as their medicine and recreational preference. Talking about mushrooms or ketamine is no longer a taboo, and even Dr. Hart appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast on “Therapeutic Heroin”.

If that’s not a paradigm shift, then I don’t know what.

What about 2021?

We are currently in the process of a great cultural, spiritual and mental change across the world. In any case, I am not so happy with the authoritarian approach that many countries are taking in response to Covid. I think a lot of people are realizing that drug companies shouldn’t be making politics – something they’ve been doing since 2020 and relying on their vaccines. This does not mean that the vaccines are not effective – it means that we, companies that make billions on their products, cannot blindly trust us to give us “unbiased” opinions.

Also, many people became aware that now is the time to live the life they have always wanted. This will be imitated in the “Great Resignation” and we will not continue this until 2022.

My greatest hope is that a highly contagious and less dangerous variant will take over the world and offer a general dose of herd immunity. Once that happens, the case for compulsory vaccination should wear off – but I doubt it will be easy. Now that some politicians have tasted the cup of authoritarianism – some of them need to be removed, and I fear that in some cases – it is getting violent.

I will be dropping my predictions for 2022 by the end of this month.

Many thanks to everyone!

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