Legal Weed Is Being Ruined By Corporate Greed
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Huge corporations like Trulieve and Amazon are pushing for a cannabis market free from worker protections or anti-trust laws. Trulieve has a near monopoly already.
We dug into how corporate greed is ruining legal weed.
-----
More Perfect Union is a nonprofit media organizaton with a mission to build power for working people. Learn more here: perfectunion.us/
Follow us on Twitter: / moreperfectus
Instagram: / perfectunion
Facebook: / moreperfunion
Tiktok: / moreperfectunion
Support your local black market drug dealer 🫡
Support your local ethical black market drug dealer.
@@monopolizedopaminewell yes, hopefully your drugs aren't being produced in sweatshops
IF THEY'RE NOT GETTING THEIR SUPPLY FROM THESE EXACT SAME TAINTED SOURCES. Kind of hard to vet at that point
Grow your own, it's not hard. Just like growing tomatoes or peppers
@@Kmbakuknow the grower or become the grower. There are many growers that sell on the black/Grey market.
Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.
Aka "externalised risks and costs"
Wrong mate... that's not how it works. It's about control. How to control people... use their greed. Almost every political book from Machiavelli shows this. A person can remain in charge... greed is like an addiction and the capitalists are the junkies. The Bourgeoise are the dealers of the capitalists. And the capitalists come from upper, middle and lower classes.
The ultra-powerful care about only 2 things... getting back at people and getting control of people. These are accomplished by many means... from black ops mercenary armies in war torn regions... to legislations and lobbying in democratic nations. They all require money though...
Weed is insanely easy to grow and you get tons of it when you do. This is not an issue for anyone with a green thumb
Corporations and corruption go hands in hands. And it's killing America 🤣😂🤣
I think everyone is this comment SECTION can agree
Im so damn tired of everything in the world being owned by big corporation
Welcome to Monopoly Era, you can pass go only if you sell your soul for $200 hours a day.
Corporations don't own me.
$200 per hr !? Take me already I'm used to selling mine for more like $20 per hr..
Jokes, I don't work and I'm keeping my soul bahaha
Then start voting libertarian.
I feel ya there
Imagine how great a local farmers market would be
And the product would be excellent especially when compared to shitty dispensaries
I'd make alot more money selling vegetables if weed was there too!
HELL YEAH!!
I'm not going to lie to you guys I've smoked better weed given to me by some guy in a do-rag then I've ever gotten from a pot store.
And I've smoked better weed from before we started mathematically synthesizes in the s***.
People go to a pot store because it's convenient and socially acceptable, that's it. Why do you feel like attaching a salesman to my experience makes my experience better it doesn't it you just have some a****** trying to make me spend 40 more dollars in a store.
@@SLVYER1 shit man last time I went I paid 80 dollars just in tax... which is just a bribe to not get pulled over in my eyes
I work as a lab tech for a medical cannabis company. All of this is true, that’s why I’m getting out of the medical weed industry. Cool ass job and cool people but you can feel the corporatism and greed throughout the company. The pay is not what it should be and the entire business model is “expand faster than the other guy and constantly sell things at a discount” the higher ups calling the shots do not give a damn about weed or understand the chemistry and biology of it, they’re stereotypical-LinkedIn ass capitalists
I am so sorry that the industry chewed you up too. I’m in Colorado and been a budtender for 7 years. I am considered a huge veteran bc most people only take one job in the industry and it chews you up and spits you out. I’m sure you are super rad and I am so sorry that you have had the same experience as so many of us
It was really sad to experience…
It’s all good. I’d stick around if they pay was optimal, the career was sustainable and there was a better work life balance. I’m just a lab tech but my company requires all managers to work 45hrs a week. Miss me with that shit.
I work in the lab making extracts and stuff. But the turnover rate over in cultivation, trimming, labeling etc is insanely high. But what do they expect? They pay them $14/hr
Should go start your own company and do it differently
@johnmorris3650 Did you even watch the video? They discussed why that's so difficult.
Anything that is beneficial, convenient, useful, or even wanted by people is always tainted whenever corporations get their filthy hands on it.
I could say the same thing about Governments.
And the reason is, they are both power structures run by bipedal apes.
100% true. And I don’t see anyone with the balls to do anything about it.
Welcome to capitalism - the whole system is a greedy scam
Yes. If something has value we will try to extract money from it. If you want to stop us, you have to change the laws. We recommend starting with healthcare and prisons since these are the two sectors which harm your civilization most. We also recommend a low-cost government housing option to put downward pressure on rental prices.
@@TriphexCorporation Ah, the irony of Dunning-Kruger ...
We've tried many times to end this predatory system that we've had for millennia but the predators in charge won't allow it. That's why this list is so bloody long:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions
Even drug dealers are less greedy than corporations.
They have more competition to keep prices in check. Corporatism ruins everything ☹️
Facts
No, they are just as greedy.
It's just that corporations have far more means at their disposal to express that greed.
Drug dealers know some things got to give, that's why.
No greed can compare to corporate greed
It should revert to the status it had before 1938: essentially equivalent to lettuce. Anybody can grow it. No licenses required.
yup i agree anyone should be allowed to grow it for personal use but its unfortunately more complicated than that for products that involve more processing like edibles oils and hashes. You need to have some form of regulation to keep people safe.
That is the thing that got me when that one person wants MORE regulation not less when it is the regulations keeping people from competing with the larger corporations that fund the legislation in the first place.
Its not about no regulation, its just about not incentivizing lobbyist to fund gatekeeping legislation by making Gov overreach the norm.
Edit: this is an issue in pretty much all economies in the US, Agriculture being the most important to win back. Weed is so small compared to the overall ability to supply our own foods because now they are already pushing against home gardeners.
@@zachmoyer1849 ppl say the same thing about food. Like a fast food place needs to be regulated to ensure hygeine etc blah blah, but then when you see how the health and safety checks actually function, its superficial nonsense and in the end regulators are paid to do nothing, and how it ends up working in reality is nothing like the theoretical goals and intentions
@@enterpassword3313 they fine restaurants all the time in my area. But i dont just mean safetey it would also involve making a standard system so people know what they are buying.
@@enterpassword3313This is nonsense. You really want to live in Africa, India, etc? Food safety laws are absolutely necessary
John Boehner, former Speaker of the House, who fought to keep tough penalties for weed, has now joined a large corporation, Acreage Holdings, a major player in big cannabis. He fought to put little people in prison but when they found a way to venture capitalize weed he was all in.
Disgusting and true: truly disgusting
We need to stop paying politicians
Who else to lobby for weed then the very person who kept illegal til his pockets got fat
IiRC, he invested into that company years ago, within months of leaving office. Truly despicable
I'm am a republican and you are absolutely correct. I remember reading an interview with him after he left office. He seemed like a friendly, personable person. But unlike normal people like you and I, he has no backbone and will go in whichever direction has the most money. That is the same bottom line over & over. Corporate greed or personal greed, it's all to obtain more money. Lock a bunch of people up one year, make millions doing the same thing they were doing the next year. And he will fall asleep soundly tonight. How? I don't know. My suspicion is that he, and many politicians from both parties have done much worse with regards to human rights violations of any stripe, that these hypocritical moves based on money are no big deal to them. I don't like thinking the worst of my fellow man, but look at Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House is a chomo and went to prison. Nancy Pelosi made a couple hundred million with her stocks while Speaker on a $300,000 salary. We got greedy pigs and kid f.ockers at the highest levels of government.
When the human race goes (near) extinct and the planet is a wasteland, we can thank corporate greed. Every problem in most of our lives has its roots in corporate greed.
No. You can thank individual desire.
No corporation exists without customers.
@@coolworxgo off, queen! Speaking power to truth like a true G.
or religion.
@@coolworxwas it individual desire that offshored American manufacturing jobs? Or was it individual desire to dump toxic waste into the environment? Or maybe it was individual desire that bailed out the big banks, started forever wars, created the prison industrial complex.
Whatever you do, don't blame the oligarchs that manipulate society.
@@coolworxTell that to the people without a decent alternative.
The dispensary I worked at started forcing employees to sign NDAs. I don't know what they're trying to keep secret. But I quit working for them. We were selling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of product every month in our staff on the ground were barely making a living wage. Support your local drug dealer.
I lived in Denver from 2003-2014. I saw firsthand how the industry started out good, and was very quickly taken over by corporate greed.
Greedy rich folks ruining everything for everyone but themselves?
In other news, water is wet.
This one’s particularly bad because this class of people mostly despises stoners and people who use weed to medicate. They have zero interest in the culture, they have zero interest in anything other than just sucking out every spare scent that people have while destroying legalized weed.
I remember right when weed got legalized in Washington, there was a dispensary owner in Vancouver (across the river from Portland) who ADMITTED in the press he despised weed smokers, and thought they were all losers and failures.
That was in the very early days of legalized weed in America. 2016.
And in Vancouver, serving the entire multimillion person metropolitan area of Portland, only had two dispensaries. That asshat had one of them.
Thanks capitalism!
For now. Just be thankful you don't have to pay a subscription to access the ocean, yet.
@@LarsaXL It's not a subscription but it's still expensive to visit the ocean unless you just happen to live in city/state that's near it ...
No the water is full of pfos
We are a year away from Walmarts Great Value Indica, 13.95 an ounce.
Mmm
Yeah but it will be in a locked cabinet in the health aisle
Zoinked on the great value pack
Is this wrong? Is this a bad thing? 🤔
Anyway, gummies are so much better than flowers, IMO. I like my 🫁's.
They said that ten years ago when the class 1 designation was to change . The federal memo from years ago indicated Weed is not in line with
Federal Form 4473 and banking regulations with felony consequences.
Hence why we need to fight against legalizing mushrooms......these corporations will destroyyy it.
As soon as New Mexico began licensing "dispensaries" we've got one within spitting distance of every street corner. Just a few blocks from my house there is a 24/7 DRIVE THROUGH pot store. You don't even need to be able to STAND UP to buy weed but it's evidently OK TO DRIVE WHILE LOADED.
It was never going to be made legal until it could be fully controlled by the same corporations that own everything else.
Everything is financial capital..
That’s why people should push for homegrown so when it’s fully legal the corporations lose because no one’s buying from them. Trust that I can literally take dirt from anywhere spend roughly 2 months getting it conditioned and in 6 months or less make something beautiful grow from it. Even better but a little more skill required you can just grow it in a bucket with an air stone and some liquid nutrients.
political activism fixes corruption
yet porn is free, makes you think :) remember, if it's free, _you_ are the product
@@pitchwife7573 lol that’s a buzz phrase every thing that glitters isn’t gold but that doesn’t mean gold doesn’t glitter. Just cause something is free doesn’t mean there is always some ulterior or secret motives
found the coomer lmao@@lilscoobynetwork
MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO WE CAN HAVE POLITICIANS WHO ACTUALL DO SOMETHING FOR THE 99% PLEASE!! 😤😤
the best way to make it happen soon is getting your local city or county to pass a bill to this effect. then once enough municipalities do this, the state has some momentum to do it
No way this happens under capitalism
99.99%
The better thing would be to get politicians out of government. And to reduce government substantially. Politicians have 0 business in government, government is about regulating and controlling business and finances, why the fuck do we have people who have 0 knowledge of either there?
@@JerzeeSP im guessing youre working 100 hours a week to feed your neighbors?
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.sporesss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on instagram?
Yes he is. dr.sporesss
This is an interesting video and i can tell you're working hard. Just note - the bg music is SUPER distracting - especially on laptop - the drums and effects overwhelm your voice. I hope this is helpful!
When MO was legalizing, one of my wife's friends and her husband were preprepping to open a dispensary, she has months of asset acquisition, inspections, stacks of paperwork everything so they could pen the day things were legal and be up and running... only to watch those initial licenses go to like 3 huge companies and almost no local businesses. They had jumped through EVERY hoop, there's no reason they shouldn't have qualified, other than the obvious. So I appreciate the thesis here
That’s why home growing is the only way to guarantee a quality product because I guarantee most people who smoke already have a plug and it’d be no more difficult to just make friends with your neighbor or hit up that friend with the green thumb to sell you some of their surplus which will almost certainly be better than anything from a dispo or off the street and no price hike from excise taxes if they even charge you at all. Only “normies” and sheep will want to buy from corporation who we all know does debatably shady shit to boost their bottom line.
@@lilscoobynetwork
Correct.
I'm watching this from the UK, it is definitely fully illegal here and I kinda want it to stay that way for the reasons you stated.
Even the "mass grown" stuff that's coming from some major weed growing operation (i.e. stuff that various dealers across all parts of town/a few towns seem to all have in stock at almost any time) is actually really quite decent*, though yeah I ultimately will go for an "experienced neighbour" bit given the choice.
*Decent by OUR standards, tho probably a lot less nice than the choices you have over there!
@@ZIGZAG12345 Its not fully illegal in the UK, prescriptions are available privately for some. But I suspect its already going the way this video says!
So this isn't the fault of greedy corporations, but... government regulation? If there were ZERO licenses, ZERO taxes, ZERO regulations over the sale and production of cannabis then there wouldn't be any large corporations. FUCK THE US GOVERNMENT
@@ZIGZAG12345 That's easier for you to say because there aren't gigantic crime syndicates pushing drugs into your country from a bordering country. Legalization would take a decent amount of wind out of their sails over here.
Wow, what are the odds. I work at Trulieve and I just started my lunch break and decided to pull up something to watch. I saw the title for this and immediately thought "I wonder if they're gonna mention Trulieve?" I'd already heard a bit about how greedy they were, but this really blows the lid off. Also they pay us $13.50 an hour here in FL and largely rely on tips to supplement that 🙄
get them to roll u stock options *trust*
In CO less than $17 anywhere u will be laughed at. U shouldn't have to rely on tips.
Ew. Gross. Hope you get out soon!
If you stay for longer than youre expecting. You can try to form a Union there. I mean if youre planning on leaving, might as well piss them off on the way out
Stiiizy here In California is the same! Luckily they unionized which helped us receive better benefits.
Another example of politicians profiting off their position, every damn on of them is corrupt.
It's the ideal product to keep local and encourage creation of a cottage industry which will provide jobs and security... ruined by greed.
Its probably better to work on a better finanical way of doing things, less freedom to market, more regulation, less the need, room to F everyone else for it..
Less nation..
They knew this was going to happen even before it was legalized
Of course they did
You are correct…we all knew it was going to happen…it’s the way it always happens 😢
thats why they are sllloowwllyy allowing it to be legalized, so they can be in position to grab the biggest cut of the market before anyone else can even sell it.
And they always fight laws allowing home growing.
Trulieve strategically positioned itself as a dominant force in the market, creating formidable barriers for competitors, primarily through substantial initial capital and influential involvement in shaping Florida's cannabis legislation. However, their calculated approach had unintended consequences, as the emergence of alternative cannabinoids, like Delta 8, 9, 10, THC-O, gained popularity. Labs producing these compounds, operating within the legal gray area as they're hemp-derived, not cannabis-derived, are challenging Trulieve's market share. This has prompted Trulieve to lobby for a ban on these analogs in Florida, but the sheer variety of such compounds makes it akin to a complex game of whack-a-mole.
Producing these analogs entails a complex and resource-intensive process, demanding significant investment in diverse machinery, expansive growing spaces, and substantial overhead costs. The intricacies involved mean they cannot delegate this labor to external labs, as the entire production process must remain fully integrated.
I worked in a delta 8 lab and now as a lab tech for a med cannabis company
I used to joke about walking to 711 and getting a pack of Marlboro greens. Now that idea sickens me
Anyone remember former Speaker of the House John Boener who I believe was against marijuana usage while in office but became a proud grower/seller once it became legal? No principles. Or maybe he’s just a strict follower of the law. Which means if prostitution ever became federally legal he’d become a pimp overnight.
Yes I remember that miserable Boener who was against all drugs until he found a way to make money with it!😊
The industry is full to the brim of old drug warrior politicians and ex-DEA agents cashing in on legal marijuana after they cashed in on imprisoning thousands for it.
Lawful Evil is the most despised alignment.
The worst kind simply human scam
The Good, The Bad, and then THE UGLY.
Knew this shit was tarnished when it gave me panic attacks like i was in highschool again
you don’t think it’s bc modern cannabis is high THC? i don’t really like it either, i like a more mellow high
@@2spooky4me63 it is cause high thc. Its 90% reason why bad triips even occure, its impossible to have bad trip when youu are smoking high cbd low thc plants, even after big joints. Ofc everything in proper dosage, but only now more and more peopple experience bad trips, when i was smoking my first weed it was fun and i was laughing, now its all about how hard it hits.
Because you can't handle high-THC yet. Unfortunately, high-THC varieties are the only ones that eliminate my seizures.
I miss my 90’s mids!
@@2spooky4me63no, modern weed is perfect for me. Your dispensary might have lower thc weed
DMT, LSD and psilocybin containing mushroom are just amazing with so many health benefits. Psilocybin mushrooms treatment saved my life honestly from addiction and depression. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Microdosing helped me get out of the pit of my worst depressive episode, a three year long episode, enough to start working on my mental health.
I've been looking to try shrooms for depression, just very difficult to get a
reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
YES very sure of Dr.benshrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
How do i reach out to him? Is he on Instagram
You are 100% correct. Since the 1930's a politician put the stops on Marijuana. Because their drugs were being put on the shelves. Now it becomes legal they want the profits. Power is sinking faster & faster as I text.
Profits are also shrinking with inflation, hence the price hikes
Which 🤫 definitely isn't responsible for inflation
We just need to convince people that homegrown is better than corporate. No taxes, no price hikes, and no one is going to sell you some moldy weed that they cleaned with a uv light and stripped all the terpenes away because they’re smoking the same product.
Let me call soccer mom Cindy and compare the linelol. In my little child proof baggy thingy… Cuz you know this white apple “tarts” is 36 percent thc when it’s moldy and really 22 percent. Lmaooo
Smoked weed for 25 years. It just became legal and I finally quit smoking haha. wtf.😂
I was lucky. A few months after weed legalized in my state I turned 21
Edibles. Much better for you. Look into distillate. I make my own.
Edit: Congrats on quitting smoking. Same here; a dozen years without tobacco and three years without herb.
Good timing. I've heard people say they could taste the poison.
Difference! I mean they could taste a difference 😊
for me it's homegrown or nothing since prices are ridiculous. never been in a weed shop! only vape now...
@@Kmbakupesticides
Go back to the days when NORML and other advocates used to scream about, legalizing Marijuana. Their cry to get it legalized was, "Well, make it legal, and Tax it and Regulate it, and everybody is happy and the Government will no longer oppose it because they make money on it. OK, there you have it. You got what you asked for.
And I heard that when it would go legal, the price would come down because there would be so much of it! I have major chronic pain and I still can't afford any form of it. Insurance will pay for opiates, but not bud. With help from a friend I purchased some gummies a while back from a licensed dispensary and the first 3 or 4 worked, the rest didn't. On a side note, why does it have to smell like you're burning a skunks ass? I grew up on weed in the 70s, and 80s. Concerts smelled pleasant. Now the shit's so strong people are violently vomiting from it.
That's so fucked up and gross that they will provide you with opiates and not a NATURAL, much healthier, substance that can be just as effective for pain relief and calming the mind.
It's legal in Canada and the corporations tried for monopoly and failed. The small companies won and you can also just grow your own legally.
Kinda ... its not legal here ...its controlled.. if it was legal i could grow more than 4 plants at a time !
Ontario is a monopoly by the OCS ...all legal weed is handled by them before sent to a store ..
@@irishdabs5984 plants is still a shit ton of weed. We had just two and it made way more then we needed.
@@greathoonta3461 4 plants is fuck all for medical users .. if eating it or making concentrate then 4 plants wont last 4 months of producing better products
@@irishdabs598but is it not legal there where you buy it? Only the government can grow it crazy and give it out to anyone like that? Like how does that make any sense when they monopolize it and possibly shit on it's growing process.
Nah fuck that.
Grow YOUR OWN
@@irishdabs598idk why you think that, there is a tonne of competition. Countries like australia import most of their med buds from canada, but its from dozens of different companies and growers, andvthere are even more locally
The “great filter” theory on why we don’t have a galaxy full of aliens makes a lot more sense now. I think the problem was the Carl Sagan types describing the filter as a physics problem when it turns out it’s just greed 🤷♂️.
You should read Charles Murray's _Coming Apart_
There are two civilizations on this planet right now... the plebeian and the aristocratic.
The latter has been methodically planning its escape/unencumbrance from the former.
@@coolworx yet the latter relies parasitically upon the former and would wither and die quickly without it. All they can do is widen the gap exponentially.
@@asagoldsmith3328that comment gets censored
@@nicklebuck lmao I noticed. Gotta maintain that advertiser appeal I guess
@@asagoldsmith3328lol what did you even say?
This is my shocked face. Didn't even need to watch the video to figure that out. Kinda like how politicians won't legalize it until they figure out how they can get their financial interests set up ahead of time.
Thank you for using your platform to cover this issue!
Corporate greed is why the world is ruined 🤬
corporations are run by people... peoples greed ruins everything... greedy people banding together is the greatest threat to peace and happiness that exists.
@@TalkingGIJoe people are not greedy. capitalism makes them so to survive.
@@vixen878 greed is real what tf do you mean? people are greedy and people are evil, sorry to inform you the world has always been pretty rough and cut-throat!
@@akazer500 I never said greed didn't exist. I said that the reason for greed is the material conditions In which people are given and live in.
Again WRONG! greed runs rampant in the wealthy and poor alike, not limited to any politics, race, or culture. Mankind is always out to take more than our fill!@@vixen878
College Humor predicted this years ago. When Colorado legalized weed, they made a skit about how corporate weed undermined weed culture, like the relationship between dealers and users.
whats kind of ironic is that at least here in FL where its medically legal, there's a weird catch 22 between customers, dispensaries, and dealers. If you get a medical card, it'll show up on background checks. So not as many people as you think have med cards. Plus it costs money to see a doctor, get prescribed, and get your card updated every year. Anyhow what this has created is that since a lot of these dispos are trying to expand as fast as possible, they sell a lot of their stuff, especially bud, for dumb cheap. Every holiday you can think of, there's a sale going on. For example, a friend of mine who has a card got like a half ounce of decent shake at trulieve for like $40. That's dumb cheap. So what is happening is that dealers will cop bud from the medical dispos for a bargain and sell it to ppl without a med card for typical street prices lol
So true, I don't smoke anymore but I used to have a dealer that treated me like a VIP because I bought quite a bit from him and he actually liked me. He went out of his way to get me more quality stuff and even gave me freebies sometimes. I got 1g each of 3 different strains for free one Christmas as a thank you.
Just a service that you don't get anywhere else and it made me not hate going to pick up from him like I did with other dealers.
It clearly worked too, the guy had by far the most customers than any dealer in town.
Thank you sooo much for blasting that horrendous music throughout the whole of the video. It added sooo much more.
There is absolutely open corruption in my state...artificial shortage, allowable mold levels, Harassment of local growers...etc
I've bought moldy flower from a sunnyside dispo here in PA. They refused to even LOOK at it and sent me out of the store.
In New Mexico, before the legislation to approve medical exemption cards reached the Governor's desk, one man had already secured the land and resources to meet a third of the state's demand. Anyone else in his shoes would have been under investigation by police based on purchase history alone, but since he was a former politician, he got to found multiple brands on day one. The approval process took weeks, months, or even years for all other applicants. His companies still control a huge swath of the state production and distribution now that recreational has been normalized statewide and it's hard to buy pot anywhere in the state that he doesn't profit from. Same product, different cartel.
The system isn't just corrupt. The system is built for corruption.
🎯
Same thing here in colorado between med being legal and rec going legal. It is such a scam and industry workers are treated like the lowest of the low. The owners of these huge cannabis companies hate their employees and their customers. They think we are all the worst type of humans and they will do anything to take advantage of the workers and the locals.
And rewards it
What are his companies
Is the weed good?
We’ve got 7 or 8 different dispensaries in my Florida town. Seems like plenty to choose from. You walk into Truleive and it’s like walking into a iPhone store. Streamline purchasing process. Only grip I have is these hybrid strains are all very similar I taste and effect. A longer flowering old school sativa would be a welcome addition to the menu.
It's a bit sad that I had a fear that something like this would happen back before anything was legalized
My big problem is in Florida. You can't grow for medical use. That's just insane and makes it expensive.
Exactly
Stop voting for Ron, then.
All because of Trulieve
I believe Florida is gonna be allowing people to grow plants soon.
@@IMDYT420 Nope. Trulieve made sure that wasn't in the bill. No homegrown.
I used to say that Industry ruins everything it touches.
Now I know better. And I know that capitalism ruins everything it touches.
Indeed it is the problem with nearly every thing
Capitalism is the only reason you are holding an IPhone
Capitalism is the only reason you are holding an IPhone
Capitalism is the only reason you are holding an IPhone
Capitalism is the only reason you are holding an IPhone
I seen this happen in my state in Michigan when it got legalized, it was passed with the idea that people who “have been done wronged” by the law over weed would have first opportunities for business and job, and that’s not what we saw, we saw corporations get licenses before any start up business, now our cities are over run with corporate cannabis shops, the weed they are selling is 2+ years old due to statewide tester shortages, so you get dry dusty product that doesn’t taste good and is genuinely not as good as homegrown at the moment, makes it hard for anyone to compete, and compete legally, since now you hear about smaller shops buying from farmers then selling without going through state processing since it takes 2 years to be legally processed.
In the 1930s regulators (FCC) were also aware of the threat of monopolization in the broadcast industry and instituted specific measures which have now all but been obliterated. See: Communications Act of 1934.
in my state, corporations are lobbying to stop home growers.
I'm not surprised. You knew that was the next on the chopping block. I don't know if it's related but there's been this massive bizarre organized attack on menthol cigarettes and vapes and vaping businesses in California for the past, I would say, eight years or so. The commercials are utterly ridiculous, all various form of reefer madness and apparently the voters fell for them hook, line and sinker.
That's what Trulieve is doing here in Florida
Gross. Just gross. “It’s a plant” by Keller Williams. Give it a listen. It will resonate w you a lot. FREE THE WEED!
@@patrickkish6662 scandalous crooks. Their nerve is amazing.
Ohio?
All we need is to push for them to let us grow our own.
No need to push just DO IT!! 👊
It is legal in my state
Exactly if we push for people to stop buying from corporations and start investing in their neighbor or friend with the green thumb the corporations will lose and the culture will be restored to its rightful owners “the people”.
Or ignore the other monkeys and take care of yourself. This begging for permission is what children do...
Yup and be done with it already. It's all these fools trying to get rich off of what they know is pure cash
Completely decriminalizing it would mean anyone can just grow what they want, like anyone can just grow a tobacco or cigar plant in the garden if they feel like it, really doesn't matter what "big" corporations do.
After being fired from a MI grow for 6 mo. of work (i missed 3 days total) that recently was just purchased by HUGE Corporate investors, this video really hits the nail on the head. 1000s of workers hired and fired and working for less than $15/hr whilst producing MILLIONS IS the norm. How are we all just allowing this shit to happen.!?!
It’s the legality and conditions under which it’s grown that the public buys it. As usual corporations hands on is, will ruin it.
As a corporation ourselves, our only answer is: "Well get off your butts and change the laws then!" - we're rooting for you! As long as it's lawful to make profit off it, someone will be unscrupulous enough to do it. If you want to keep big companies out you should limit the maximum volume a license-holder can sell to something that will be less useful for major entities and have a system in place to make sure one person doesn't spin out 100 LLCs all with their own license to circumvent it.
@@TriphexCorporationno that takes effort, merit, motivation, and discipline. Largely not common among heavy users
@@User-54631 Smoking weed every day is the reason I'm the CEO of a technology company so your mileage may vary.
Capitalism will spare no medicine from corporate greed
Broaden those horizons!
It spares no human from the wake of their destructive path.
They'll point to the examples of having to pony up or truisms as a benefit or an outcome that only that model can somehow magically create.
It's utter bullshit and purely propaganda.
Not capitalism
This is corrupt government endorsed oligopoly.
The backbone of capitalism is competition. All this is extremely anticompetitive.
Monopolies and oligopolies are not capitalist.
@@AndresRodriguez-pf1jt that's a feature in capitalism not a bug, get it right please
@@AndresRodriguez-pf1jtnOt TruE capItAlism!!!
One of you in every comment section.
Someone who says monopolies are not a part of capitalism, should not be taken seriously with any conversation regarding economics. Just sit every single economic conversation out for the rest of your life.
@@AndresRodriguez-pf1jt Ah, the irony of Dunning-Kruger. It's almost as if the system has cultivated an army of obedient drones and have successfully weaponized stupidity :/
I stopped vaping after the meaning of "resin" shifted from "tar" to "any plant material" and when it became more broad, they added in different additives that irritate my throat. There's lots of different euphemisms for the different terpentenes like "live resin!", "CO2 oil", and the consumer has little to base their decision on. I asked the guy at the dispensary and he said the same thing.
What additives?
New York was a great example? As a person who was involved in the New York CBD industry, the corruption ran very deep with a only a handful of politically connected individuals controlling every segment of the industry. New York was not a good model of anything other than the most money wins.
Yeah, southern Oregon had growers for many many decades. They've all been brushed aside as rich investors, like Jim Belushi, came and took over the industry when it became legal.
youll be happy to to know some of those farms he owned/invested in got shut down after breaking state laws, and that compared to many other states. WA and OR have far more restrictions on huge farms, and its still p easy to get a small time growers/part year growers license, fuckin sucks about Jim fuckin shit up for a while tho :/
That’s why homegrown is the best option. I would love for people to be able to make money from it but the business side of it can ruin the experience for everyone. Just look at the way some of these guys just breed out all the best qualities chasing thc numbers.
@@lilscoobynetwork Nods, true but the traditional growers have always depended on the business for their living and they, on the other hand, were great at breeding cool variations.
The lesser belushi🤣
My solution is to grow my own cannabis. 💚🔥🧬🌿
And you better have nice n cool neighbours
@@toyotaprius79 A well ventilated closet will do, just don't forget the charcoal filter!
@toyotaprius79 I'm in NorCal. Many of my neighbors are growers too.
those bills do have amendment to allow self grown plants for personal use it specifically states the amount of plants you can grow it is illegal for you to sell your weed but for your own use legal. They figure most people will rather just buy than grow their own
@@lostboy8084
As long as you keep your head down you'll be fine regardless of what the law allows. And regarding the morality of that statement, I'd like to quote a great man.
"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust law." -Martin Luther King Jr.
It needs to been considered a crop to be sold just like anything in your garden.
Remember that old booklet from the seventies called(Grow your own stone). If you can find it. It shows an easy cheap way to grow good weed.
The yield fom their method is two ounces a month . Another booklet is the( Clear light growth system). This one is also shows how to filter and
Synthesize the weed oil all the way to honey and cherry oil and even pure THC crystal acetate. Good hunting . Much love.
Same in the U.S. wine industry. California used to produce some of the best wines in the world. Now, 3 corporations have grabbed up about 70% of U.S. Wine market and U.S. wine is mostly trash.
What wines are good like specific names?? Would like to try better american wine brands
@@TurboPhantomOG Daou Vineyards in Paso Robles, Ca. is the only family owned vineyard that I’m familiar with. They make some amazing Cabs. I’m sure there’s more out there but I just avoid American Wines in general. The Conglomerates have watered down the rules of wine making and they’re more into quantity than quality.
In MS, you have to get a "subscription" to a special DOCTOR, who is the only person who can give you a "card." This subscription costs between $350- $500 per year, before you even buy the weed. Last I heard, that's more than most US families have in the bank... in the POOREST state in the country.
Wow, that is pure BS. Stuff like that is WHY Mississippi is the poorest state in the country. Corrupt, shitty governance.
That’s why home grown is the best option. You get to control the quality, price and choose the genetics that best suit your needs wether it be pain reduction or to increase creativity and lower depression.
Same type of deal in Illinois. $500 for a three-year Medical use card,I believe. But,taxes are reduced (which is HUGE,here) down to 1% whereas,Recreational users get stuck with 35% taxes on products containing over 30% THC. I think flower is a 20% tax but,I’m not positive.
Here in MN, we are reserving a portion of licenses for members of communities disproportionately impacted by the “war on drugs.” There is also a provision that all licenses must be help be residents. (At least outside of reservations; tribal nations can set their own rules).
I'm in my 70's and every teacher I had in elementary school had a desk just like the one you are sitting at. Thanks for the memories.
Nah cause that weed tax is WILD they be charging $50 just to buy an 8th
The prices will always be high when the business first starts. Once other dispensaries are up and running those prices will come down.
Eights were $40-60 when they first opened up in 2018. Now you can find eights for $8-20.
My local dispensary sells 8ths for $15
@@meritamity There isn't a single dispensary in the U.S. that has to pay a politician FFS.
@@donaldwilliams4019 that's exactly what they're going after. own everything and set whatever price they want.
@@donaldwilliams4019 that’s not true at all many eithe are 65 in many states still
Weed was only allowed to be legalized because the corporations saw a new profit stream from it.
Very informative breakdown on the topic at hand. Thanks for putting it together. I did not know about Trulieve and how much influence they have on the cannabis industry. Same for Altria.
In my state (West Virginia) they changed the medical cannabis law at the very end to outlaw growing personal plants, outlaw edibles, and outlaw smoking of it - leaving patients to use only the overpriced vaporizers ignoring many of the digestive and immune systems suffers.
Such a diabolical system
Dry herb vapes are the healthiest way to inhale, but u can just buy a bong lol
Sounds smart to me that way your old dealer still gets some calls. I bet your a cheapie who couldn’t wait to dismiss your loyal dealers for big canna garbage. 🗑️ community. You guys said “weed dealers were shiesty and could be laced” and money go to schools. Ha ha ha pathetic pot hesds
McDonald's of weed
Still boycott worthy
They started tampering with it about a year ago now it's full of chemicals you will get hives and anxiety stomach hurts😢😢😢 we can't have nothing
I work in a technically illegal dispensary, all our products come from home growers, the other stuff is much worse!
I don't understand how they can charge fed tax when you buy at the dispensary, but it's not federally legal.
They don't charge a federal tax at point of sale, but they still have to pay tax on the income, and they can't deduct any business expenses.
also its pretty expensive compared to joe on the corner
@@chrhadden Well, for my area, joe on the corner has good quality. I spent $200 at the store, and they charged me $80 in tax. I walk in with a number in my mind like, how much can I spend for the month, I have to get enough to last, I run the numbers in my head, I can spend $200 on "product", any more than that it would cut directly into my food budget. I pick out $200 worth and we get to the register, and he says $280? That's almost a 3rd more than the entire budget I was willing to spend, but you wind up paying it anyways because you don't want to look bad, there was a bunch of people in line behind me waiting like at the grocery store. Oh, and I also don't like when it's busy, you walk in and there's 30 pairs of eyes on you, I don't want a bunch a jagoffs knowing my business. For $280 I could've gotten more from joe on the corner, but joe lives a really bad corner... but at least nobody knows why the f*ck I am there.
@@kenofken9458 well, they charged a sales tax, that's federal. They also charged something called "California excise tax", I looked up the definition of excise, it's just another word of tax. It's like saying I have to pay the toll on the tariff California charges on the excise levy tax.
If they want to get rid of the black market, they've got to be reasonable with the taxes. If legal weed costs four times as much, the street dealers will thrive. It's as simple as that.
Politicians had this unrealistic idea that cannabis taxes would solve all of their budget problems and do for their states what oil did for the Saudis.
Michigan seems to have reasonable taxes. A flat 10% I think.
No corruption on that Florida bill at all. Not.
STOP TRULIEVE
Spoken like a TRUE Republican
If you live in a state where cannabis is legal you can simply grow it yourself. I can’t speak for all such states, but in Oregon you can legally have up to four plants per household.
Its crazy cause the small guys who got 25 to life all this time for a gram of weed will not benefit from legalization and honestly should be compensated for wasting their lives.
Plus, its so hard to get into the cannabis industry like its absolutely ridiculous being priced out like ten fold.
egal Weed Is Being Ruined By Corporate Greed - Well that's a no-brainer..been happening forever.
Long live the black markets, they will outlive corporate markets
@@amberbleu1598 legal weed is being ruined by people who buy legal weed sybm
We used to call them cartels.
I’ve been in the legal cannabis industry in Colorado for ten ten years and the horror stories I could tell you are crazy legal cannabis is more crooked then tobacco
Businesses will always be greedy - their whole goal is to make a profit. The real issue here is that there aren’t any antilobbying laws. In a free market, competition is encouraged. You should overcome your competition through better product and pricing, not through political manipulation.
Legislators are heavily lobbied to NOT pass restrictions.
@@bovinityleak2066 restrictions and regulations often (but not always) add a layer of legalese and operational costs that small businesses can’t afford. With the added barrier of entry to the market, only big businesses with dedicated legal departments and resources can adapt and survive. Frequently, regulations and restrictions help big business by destroying smaller potential competition.
Support your legacy growers! When you have plenty of seeds, know to cultivate plants and know how to make your own seeds, you don't need MSOs.
Dont by it from corporations!!!
So this is a version of what happened in Canada, but exponentially worse. Canada similarly made the licencing favor big businesses, and then when legalization hit it caused a major economic destabilization to occur. Far from gangs and organized criminals the true face of the so called "black market" for cannabis in Canada was made up of average people growing plantations on hillsides, and in basements all over the country, but the legalization legislation that favored giant corporations, meant that none of the infrastructure that made up a large portion of the countries rural economy was able to translate over. When the giant corporations took over they flooded the wholesale markets with cheap sub par cannabis that drowned out what remained of the black market causing the wholesale value of black market cannabis to plummet lower than the cost of production. Since the black market cannabis trade made up so much of the rural economies especially in BC it caused a chain reaction, where even non cannabis related businesses could no longer stay afloat, and entire communities crumbled and shrank. There's not a lot of economic opportunity in rural canada, and logging, mining, and tourism aren't quite lucrative enough to justify the merchant and service industries in a lot of towns. Without cannabis bringing outside wealth into rural areas. everything from restaurants to hardware stores, to mechanics, to grocery stores started to go out of business, and people began to move away enmass. On top of this the retail cost of cannabis just got worse. People who were used to thinking of $200 ounces as being expensive were now forced to buy from dispensaries that sold that very same cheap pot that destroyed the pound market for triple the wholesale value. Instead of the consumer getting a better deal on their pot the average retail price became higher than the worst of street pricing on the black market. Instead of $200 ounces the average consumer could expect to pay up to $380 an ounce for pot that was on par with what had previously been black market B and C grade pot. Making matters even worse for the consumer; big corporations didn't care about quality and safety in the same way that the consumer driven black market had. Since cannabis growing had been decriminalized for medical growers long before legalization the culture that surrounded cannabis production was one of trying to make the safest and most effective medicine. Using better fertilizers, flushing techniques, and trying to make a product that had the highest benefit at the least detriment to the user, but the big corporations and the legislation that favored them didn't take that attitude into account. Instead the legislation treated cannabis more like tobacco (which allows for little to no safety oversight), and big corporations rushed to pump out the cheapest most chemically infused crops that they could. This didn't sit well with a lot of consumers and nobody really wanted the first generation of sub par poorly grown chem weed which is what lead to the surplus that flooded the pound market as many of these early legal corporations actually lost money, and went out of business. Unfortunately the surplus of crap caused the black market to crumble as I mentioned before, which in turn led to an eventual power vacuum, that a few of the companies who figured out the culture later began to capitalize on. While the quality improved the damage was already done to the preexisting cannabis economy, and the consumer still got shafted, because the retail prices remained primarily the same with a few deals lower spread out here and there. The few black market growers that managed to weather the storm found themselves still unable to maintain a wholesale market, because the wholesale black market value remained too low to cover production costs. This forced them to downsize and begin to rely on small time direct to consumer sales at still lower prices than what they were used to. On the one hand this was great for those specific consumers lucky enough to know a grower, because it allowed them to get higher grade pot at a fraction of retail cost, but it also meant that those farmers are still barely able to make ends meat, and perhaps only slowed the decline into bankruptcy, because just as the lack of the black market economy devastated rural economies much of that decline is still occuring, and the poor people living in the rural communities patronizing what remains of these growers, are slowly becoming poorer and less able to afford to continue. Corporate cannabis marks the slow decline of rural canada. I don't imagine the same is quite so true in the states, because rural cannabis makes up a far smaller percent of most communities economies, but the corporatization of cannabis legislation likely equally represents a threat to public health and safety as the early cannabis corporations in Canada did. They won't care about producing a health conscious product, like tobacco they view it as a way to make as much money as possible with the least concern for the users health. Florida is the perfect proof of this as every other corner store and gas station has its own brand of industrial hemp flower sprayed with synthetically produced legal cannabinoids that were soluded in industrial solvents before application. Your lucky to find a brand that doesn't give off black smoke and residue that resembles the stuff that burns off petroleum based candles when you go to extinguish them. Even with some of the better produced ones the effects of the synthetic cannabinoids themselves can be absolutely terrifying. None of them even remotely resemble regular cannabis, and all of it feels absolutely poisonous.
Well said. Given how fragmented the U.S weed mrkt is, do u see the market headed thus way. Granted the south seems to have a monopoly issue but the northern states are variable. Notung that the new reform act allows for more favorable tax reliefs on these cannabis companies and even smaller time operations. Given your insight and experience with the Canadian weed market, the U.S weed market is extremely fragmented and all over the place, do you see the U.S repeating Canada's mistake?
Excellent write up of the situation here in Canada. I still don’t buy from any of the government approved offerings. The only good thing that came from legalization, for me, is less harassment from cops. One thing that really stood out to me was being able to just roll a joint in a public adult setting and seeing cops bother people that have a beer in their hand while leaving me alone.
It seemed as though some influences were too eager to legalize weed. This story helped me to understand why. I should have known.
Take a look at ohio. We voted on an initiative to legalize weed which means citizens already disagree with the govt. Then, once voters got weed legalized, the initiative immediately began getting lobbied and changed. Imo theres no point to vote on anything as a citizen of the US, rich people will just get what you "voted" on changed for their benefit. another example of how we are so clearly in a gilded age.
I’m 67 yo believe me what ever you can do for yourself you’re better off , grow your own !
I always thought the goal for a free market solution should have been *abolishing* the old federal law versus "legalization" that will still have corporate gate keepers and political restriction that prevent normal people from living life, growing and smoking, without either of their interference.
A colorado weed company gave me brain damage from a beam falling on my head and withheld witnesses to bury me.
Shit was wild asf.
Holy negligence Batman! That company has some wicked and evil ethics!
Thanks for making this vid. I've grown up around cannabis farming and its all I've done as an adult but since "legalization" my Heart is broken for what's happened to the culture and the market. At 32 when my skills are at there highest my best options are to walk away and grow veggies or go grow a million dollar crop for some rich guy and only get paid 100,000 dollars for it. I will grow veggies.. But the pain of giving up will always be there...
The format articulates the message effectively
The worst part of legal weed has been the manipulation of seed genetics which has reduced the amount of THC-9, the substance that gives a person the high feeling, and in it's place has used the artificial process of adding terpenes to give the new weed strains their flavor.
I remember discussing the potential of legal weed 40 years ago and how most users said the legalization would ruin it and here we are today.
Bro it’s not just me! I’m not a weed nerd but dang this shit is weak lately. I attributed it to crazy tolerance but like the last few years it just seems like every strain is some gelato cookie fruit shit that looks and tastes good but doesn’t hit very hard. I want my goddamn skywalker og back.
@@drugsdelaney2907 I hear that! But again, part of the problem will be from where the seeds are purchased from because even the legal seeds one can buy are genetically altered with less Delta 9 THC being produced during growth.
The only thing a person can do is find someone with starts/strains that didnt come from today's 'legal' sources and keep it going. gl!
It’s actually them breeding for higher thc and reducing the other cannabinoids and terpenoids which make the effects less noticeable because thc alone does not take you there it’s an entourage effect. Go smoke that 25% strain with no cbd an 1% terps and then try that 17% strain with 2%cbd and 3% terps and I’m willing to bet that the latter leaves you more smacked than the former.
@@drugsdelaney2907most likely due to the nutrients they use. Either they are using hormones to make the plants grow big to get the most yield a plant or they are using synthetic nutrients. Another way could be how the bud is cured and dried.
THCa decarbs into d9 - with flower d9 content doesn’t really matter, d9-THCa (commonly referred to as “THCa”) is the main psychoactive component of flower. Also black market dealers artificially add terps too….
00:03 Corporate greed ruining legal weed
01:33 Corporate greed is impacting the legal weed industry.
03:00 Corporate interests influencing legal cannabis regulations
04:29 Corporate greed influencing cannabis legislation and business.
05:58 Corporate greed is influencing the legal weed industry
07:30 Corporate greed in legal weed industry
08:56 Legal weed regulations are facing challenges from corporate influence
10:36 Corporate giants exploiting legal cannabis industry
Support a local farmer not some suits here for your money and money alone. People with a real love of the plant have been doing this years and years dont let them fade away
its about time someone spoke about this. Contaminated drugs and non organic practices in a drug that can turn more of us into sedated and complicit humans.
thank you for your reporting. I get so overwhelmed and yet I kown I can't just bury my head in the sand. Reporting like yours helps so much.
Dang. If you gave every Floridian 7 joints, they would all have at least 8 each!
Meanwhile, I have cerebral palsy and I’m tied up in a ball with spasticity and all their drugs that they offer me like flexor all and other muscle relaxants don’t work luckily, I’m in Florida and I can get my medical cannabis card and I am now very much considering it
Why drag the equity garbage into this? It has nothing to do with the quality of product or Humane treatment of employees.🙄
Commercial grade weed has ruined the market.
They always talk about the strain, but it doesnt mean much when it is grown poorly, rushed to market, fast dried and crappy.
Good soil, limited fertilizer, proper flushing, slow drying and working on perfecting the cure
Good 1/8's that I've seen can't even fit in the containers that 1/8's come in
The buds still look alive and have smells that are so, so pleasant
You open up a jar and someone comes from 2 blocks away and says, "Damn!"
That’s how it should be, along with the flower being hand trimmed than machine. Currently being involved with a MSO who just opened up a facility where I’m at and I’ve been harping on them to avoid machine trimming. Yeah there are machines out there that can do 15lbs in 20 minutes but you lose the character of the bud and the end product doesn’t look right.
Yeah, but $20 an ounce for that shwag weed...
I like a full wet trim dried on racks then cured for 3 to 6 weeks depending on strain. It has never done me wrong. Good genetics is a must as well. Also if I machine trimmed I would miss all the awesome finger hash. At least the laws are loosing a little and we don't have to feel like criminals for growing a plant. I'm in Maryland and they are just trying to figure it all out still but it already feels better. Keep it green everyone.
Cure is key
Various background music on this video are wicked, man! :)
Any legalization bill should have a provision for personal use plants.
It's all garbage! It doesn't get me high! I'm in Florida and Trulieve wants to legalize weed but we can't grow our own at home and the weed they grow sucks! It doesn't get me high at all! A f*cking shame! And they sell weed they claim is at 30% THC and over 4% total terps yet it doesn't get me high and none of it is loud and potent! Maybe that crap will get my mother high but she hasn't smoked in 40 yrs!
@nnthepirate The D9 levels down here is in the Hemp range like .3% as high as 6%! That's it!
You’re not wrong.