The new ethical shopping standard every marijuana user should try in 2022

Someone once told me that the only real power “people” ever had was “where they spend their money.” In other words, the real power of the consumer lies in the choice of supplier. In simpler terms, if no one is buying your stuff, you are not making any money.

This is a consumer superpower, and while it may seem to the individual that a person’s action could not possibly have a significant impact on a business, the truth of the matter is that even if a person “finds a reason, not too Buy ”from a certain brand could mean that“ others ”could find other reasons as well. When enough reasons come up to avoid a particular brand, a business essentially dies due to a lack of revenue.

As cannabis users, we should keep this in mind when we enter a new cannabis era. While the victory for legal cannabis is still being fought at the federal level, big corporations are rushing into the local legalized landscapes, trying to devour the market before others get a chance to participate. Firms like Acreage Holdings, where a Mr. John Boehner – former Republican House Speaker and staunch anti-cannabis who turned for a board position at the company – are suing local governments to prevent them from establishing “local” residence clauses “in the frame of cannabis legalization. In essence, these clauses would mean that a license holder would have to “have lived in the area” for a period of time in order to maintain quality.

This would immediately make it impossible for large corporations like Acreage Holdings to operate in these areas. It is for this reason that they sued Maine County over these clauses last year, as reported in a Forbes article;

A federal judge in the District of Maine ruled that the residency rules violated the U.S. Constitution’s dormant trade clause, which reserves the power to regulate interstate trade – which, although interstate cannabis is illegal, extends to marijuana. – FORBES

Though Acreage Holdings constitutionally has a lawsuit and would likely win in appeals courts too – the point is that “big faceless corporations” tend to try to circumvent or bend the rules in their favor – and think that it does so within The one in the cannabis sector would be different, to say the least, naive.

This brings us to the starting point – the superpower of the consumer!

Ethical cannabis purchase

You cannot blame a shark for mistaking a human for food if the human swims where the shark is eating. Nor can you expect Wall Street millionaires to be ethical business practices when they can get the law up and running in their favor. Hence, the responsibility for consumption rests directly on the shoulders of the consumer, and much like you wouldn’t want to wear clothes made in a sweatshop in a forgotten Asian factory, neither should you put up with buying weed from companies that put profit above people.

Making sure where you get your weed should be a concern these days. While I’m not saying corporate weed is a “bad thing”, it is far from being. I think that a cannabis company that spends money on research and development to develop products for a broad population could have many benefits. However, these companies must adhere to an ethical standard.

We are currently in a major social change and in this passing moment we have the opportunity to completely rewire the system. This also includes how we as consumers interact with companies. If you find that a particular company is abusing its employees or another cannabis company is cutting back on it – then it should be your duty as an ethical consumer to stop using their products.

As mentioned earlier, this may not be enough to cause significant damage in an individual case – however, you would be surprised how many people follow suit when they learn of the reasons for your personal boycott.

“Hey man, we should definitely buy them!”

“Nah man, f ‘that brand!”

“Oops, why?”

“Well, they have Xed, some Ys, in the Zs …”

And quite simply you start a domino effect and cause a sales breakdown against the offensive brand. It really is the most effective way to crack down on companies that violate social trust or are trying to outsmart the system.

It is for this reason that it is important to be informed about the products you are purchasing. Blindly trusting companies when it comes to the products they sell is an ignorant approach to being an ethical consumer. The fact is, many of us still buy shit knowing that it is tied to human suffering – as long as it’s quick and cheap, a little bit of suffering can go a long way!

However, when it comes to your weed there is a sense of purity that you want to keep in the market. If we let cannibal corporations dominate the cannabis market, we’ll end up with a handful of monster corporations with little local competition. When that happens, these big corporations will try to buy out intellectual property and make it virtually impossible to manufacture their own varieties or competing products. They will do this by lobbying to change laws and make the legal timing to enter the market unsustainably high so the average Jane and Joe might not consider investing in the market.

So if you don’t like big corporations coming in and raping the cannabis industry, you may need to do some research on the brands you use and find out if the parent companies are allies of cannabis or just allies of profit.

I’m not saying to boycott or not – it’s entirely up to you. However, you should make these decisions as best you can.

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