Cartel Grows Out, Small Scale Growers Thankful

This is clearly the writing on the wall for the failed policy of prohibition. MADGE and RADE are wasting valuable tax dollars that are so desperately needed in many other areas of our community. The blackmarket growers of Oregon will likely be thanking you for eradicating these large scale cartel grows. As you know, the law of supply and demand is what drives any market, including underground ones. These expensive operations do not curtail demand, but the reduced supply available will drive up the price for the small scale growers.

Instead of wasting all these resources fighting against cannabis like we did with wine vineyards, breweries, and speakeasies with alcohol prohibition, we need to utilize, civilize, and capitalize on this market, this industry that will not cease to exist. The cannabis industry will only grow and prosper, providing the state with millions in revenue and taxes, along with thousands of jobs, like our flourishing wine and microbrewery industries have provided here in Oregon. At the same time, we'd be saving million of dollars currently spent on cannabis prohibition enforcement.

Information sources widely available on the internet, and other resources like Cannabis TV, channel 15 Wednedsays at 8pm, are helping educate people and dispell the propaganda and lies that have been fed to us by the DEA and other groups like the DARE program who tell us cannabis is deadly, addictive and a gateway to stronger drugs, all of which are scientifically and medically completely false. Get active in cannabis law reform if you don't want to worry about being "outed" for choosing a substance safer than tobacco, alcohol and caffeine.

You shouldn't have to live in fear of losing your kids to CPS or being fired, evicted, losing student loans, or any of the other forms of discrimination cannabis users face. The Cannabis Tax Act of 2012 can give Oregon a new industry, revenue stream, and show that we're open to individual rights and freedom, while simultaneously bringing us new prosperity in a dismal economy.

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