https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-15/cannabis-corruption-threats-secret-financial-deals-politicians

"California’s decision to legalize recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion dollar commercial pot market that officials in many small, struggling communities hoped would bring new jobs and an infusion of tax revenue to spend on police, parks and roads. But for some cities, the riches never materialized.

Instead, the advent of commercial cannabis unleashed a wave of corruption, prosecutions and accusations that has rocked local governments across the state and left them with few effective tools to combat the problem."

On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 2:46:36 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
> https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-15/cannabis-corruption-threats-secret-financial-deals-politicians
>
> "California’s decision to legalize recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion dollar commercial pot market that officials in many small, struggling communities hoped would bring new jobs and an infusion of tax revenue to spend on police, parks and roads. But for some cities, the riches never materialized.
>
> Instead, the advent of commercial cannabis unleashed a wave of corruption, prosecutions and accusations that has rocked local governments across the state and left them with few effective tools to combat the problem."

The UK pushed opium in China to balance its trade deficit.
US corporations are pushing pot on Americans for profit today.

It is one thing to allow a small group such as patients suffering painful
illness near the end of their lives to have access to pot legally. It is a
different thing to push pot to average Americans.

To see the issue from the opposite end, however, raises the question:
Are average Americans also suffering nowadays such that they also need
legal access to pot for relief?

On Friday, September 16, 2022 at 10:24:51 AM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
> On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 2:46:36 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
> > https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-15/cannabis-corruption-threats-secret-financial-deals-politicians
> >
> > "California’s decision to legalize recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion dollar commercial pot market that officials in many small, struggling communities hoped would bring new jobs and an infusion of tax revenue to spend on police, parks and roads. But for some cities, the riches never materialized.
> >
> > Instead, the advent of commercial cannabis unleashed a wave of corruption, prosecutions and accusations that has rocked local governments across the state and left them with few effective tools to combat the problem."
> The UK pushed opium in China to balance its trade deficit.
> US corporations are pushing pot on Americans for profit today.
>
> It is one thing to allow a small group such as patients suffering painful
> illness near the end of their lives to have access to pot legally. It is a
> different thing to push pot to average Americans.
>
> To see the issue from the opposite end, however, raises the question:
> Are average Americans also suffering nowadays such that they also need
> legal access to pot for relief?

Are US citizens now at a breaking down as the results of poorly thought out
and/or implemented domestic polices? And many use pot, amphetamine, and
opioids as their way out?

On Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 4:18:01 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
> On Friday, September 16, 2022 at 10:24:51 AM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 2:46:36 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
> > > https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-15/cannabis-corruption-threats-secret-financial-deals-politicians
> > >
> > > "California’s decision to legalize recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion dollar commercial pot market that officials in many small, struggling communities hoped would bring new jobs and an infusion of tax revenue to spend on police, parks and roads. But for some cities, the riches never materialized.
> > >
> > > Instead, the advent of commercial cannabis unleashed a wave of corruption, prosecutions and accusations that has rocked local governments across the state and left them with few effective tools to combat the problem."
> > The UK pushed opium in China to balance its trade deficit.
> > US corporations are pushing pot on Americans for profit today.
> >
> > It is one thing to allow a small group such as patients suffering painful
> > illness near the end of their lives to have access to pot legally. It is a
> > different thing to push pot to average Americans.
> >
> > To see the issue from the opposite end, however, raises the question:
> > Are average Americans also suffering nowadays such that they also need
> > legal access to pot for relief?
> Are US citizens now at a breaking down as the results of poorly thought out
> and/or implemented domestic polices? And many use pot, amphetamine, and
> opioids as their way out?

Good for them. Perhaps this is the best product for them to end themselves to reduce their threats to the world. No missiles and nukes for them. It is an easy product for them to self-destruction themselves for free of worry to the world. That is why US God is working to destroy US evilness to the world.

On Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 8:08:01 AM UTC, stoney wrote:
> On Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 4:18:01 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
> > On Friday, September 16, 2022 at 10:24:51 AM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
> > > On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 2:46:36 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
> > > > https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-15/cannabis-corruption-threats-secret-financial-deals-politicians
> > > >
> > > > "California’s decision to legalize recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion dollar commercial pot market that officials in many small, struggling communities hoped would bring new jobs and an infusion of tax revenue to spend on police, parks and roads. But for some cities, the riches never materialized.
> > > >
> > > > Instead, the advent of commercial cannabis unleashed a wave of corruption, prosecutions and accusations that has rocked local governments across the state and left them with few effective tools to combat the problem."
> > > The UK pushed opium in China to balance its trade deficit.
> > > US corporations are pushing pot on Americans for profit today.
> > >
> > > It is one thing to allow a small group such as patients suffering painful
> > > illness near the end of their lives to have access to pot legally. It is a
> > > different thing to push pot to average Americans.
> > >
> > > To see the issue from the opposite end, however, raises the question:
> > > Are average Americans also suffering nowadays such that they also need
> > > legal access to pot for relief?
> > Are US citizens now at a breaking down as the results of poorly thought out
> > and/or implemented domestic polices? And many use pot, amphetamine, and
> > opioids as their way out?
> Good for them.

Not good for them.
Not good for the world.

> Perhaps this is the best product for them to end themselves to reduce their threats to the world. No missiles and nukes for them. It is an easy product
> for them to self-destruction themselves for free of worry to the world. That is why US God is working to destroy US evilness to the world.

You wrote, "... US God is working to destroy US evilness to the world."
Source please.

On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 2:46:36 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
> https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-15/cannabis-corruption-threats-secret-financial-deals-politicians
>
> "California’s decision to legalize recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion dollar commercial pot market that officials in many small, struggling communities hoped would bring new jobs and an infusion of tax revenue to spend on police, parks and roads. But for some cities, the riches never materialized.
>
> Instead, the advent of commercial cannabis unleashed a wave of corruption, prosecutions and accusations that has rocked local governments across the state and left them with few effective tools to combat the problem."

"At sunset from atop Haystack Butte, the desert floor below shimmers with a thousand lights.

Illegal cannabis farms.

At this hour and distance, serene hues cloak the rugged enclave of Mount Shasta Vista, a tense
collective of seasonal camps guarded by guns and dogs where the daily runs of water trucks are
interrupted by police raids, armed robberies and, sometimes, death. So many hoop houses pack
this valley near the Oregon border that last year it had the capacity to supply half of California’s
entire legal cannabis market.

Proposition 64, California’s 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal
market would cripple the drug’s outlaw trade, with its associated violence and environmental wreckage.

Instead, a Los Angeles Times investigation finds, the law triggered a surge in illegal cannabis on
a scale California has never before witnessed.

Rogue cultivation centers like Mount Shasta Vista now engulf rural communities scattered across
the state, as far afield as the Mojave Desert, the steep mountains on the North Coast, and the high
desert and timberlands of the Sierra Nevada.

Residents in these places describe living in fear next to heavily armed camps. Criminal enterprises
operate with near impunity, leasing private land and rapidly building out complexes of as many as
100 greenhouses. Police are overwhelmed, able to raid only a fraction of the farms, and even those
are often back in business in days.

The raids rip out plants and snare low-wage laborers while those responsible, some operating with
money from overseas, remain untouched by the law, hidden behind straw buyers and fake names
on leases.

Labor exploitation is common, and conditions are sometimes lethal. The Times documented more
than a dozen deaths of growers and workers poisoned by carbon monoxide."

Election cycle create short term thinking. Short term thinking leads to symptom relief rather
than solving the problem. Political leaders sold the voters "on the promise a legal market would
cripple the drug’s outlaw trade, with its associated violence and environmental wreckage. "
And got a bigger mess.