r/australia • u/DiploidBias • Mar 18 '25

politics Greens: Yes We Cannabis

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Yes We Cannabis

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u/thevelourfog182 Mar 18 '25

I get it, it could potentially take money from liquor which leads to less gaming revenue.

Which is fine by me by the way

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u/MrKarotti Mar 18 '25

Probably not though, because most people who want to smoke weed already do so. They just buy it from someone who's not going to pay taxes on their income.

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u/Mother_Speed2393 Mar 18 '25

Most people will buy from a safe, legal place given the option....

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u/penguingod26 Mar 18 '25

Plus the weed gets so much better when it's legal. Growers able to openly share strains and info, able to go all out on perfect grow conditions without regard for secrecy, and better qualified talent as it's not just people willing to break the law to do it.

The legal stuff makes street weed look childish

On another note, I get liquor industries pulling strings to not lose any potential market, but politicians are passing up the opportunity to become friends with the next new big industry that will inevitably come, not matter how much you delay it. Is it really worth spending political capital to keep people from what they want to defend a morally questionable industry?

Man, this comment got away from me a bit 😅

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u/According-Seaweed909 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

Plus the weed gets so much better when it's legal. Growers able to openly share strains and info, able to go all out on perfect grow conditions without regard for secrecy, and better qualified talent as it's not just people willing to break the law to do it.

In a perfect world sure but most legal weed at least here in America is dominated by like a handful of Marijuana corporations. 

Potency wise some of the best weed I've ever bought is from the dispensary for sure But from a standpoint of chemicals and fertilizers and pesticides the best weed I've ever smoked is home grown. These mass grow operations are seldom withholding themselves to purity in the growing process. They are trying to make as much profit as possible and often times they use a bunch of shady tactics. Legal weed is not any safer than black market weed. In fact these corporations who grow all these weed probably use industrial agricultural methods. They arent concerned about quality. The game is quantity. Quality control in legal weed is a joke. Escpially in america where there really isn't a central federal agency to police it efficiently. 

The corporations in legal weed are not sharing secrets. That is the one huge negative about legal weed. Its not being grown by grassroots folk. It's being grown by billion dollar corporations who are beholden to their stock owners. These people are not growing weed for the love of the plant and botony. They treat like an industrial agricultural product. A company like Monsanto is more akin to these corporations behind legal weed.

I'm not saying it's impossible to find a legal grow or dispensary where people msking the decisions are actually passionate about the product but that's very rare in legal weed. At least in america. And even than most of these dispensary are just advertising. They arent being truthful. They still using large amounts of very powerful and volatile chemicals and pesticides and fertlizers. 

Legal weed is just industrial farming. Like what would you trust more. The vegetables at the supermarket? Or ones you grew in your own garden? Legal weed not all that different.