I can't think of a title. All I can think of is how totally pissed I am. My local dispensary is under threat of closing. They keep meticulous books, paid a quarter mil in taxes just to the local California coffers this year, and don't even ask me how well their employees are covered. Even their perks have benefits, man. They want to stay in business. They have complied with each and every bit of law in an effort to win a good name for dispensaries everywhere. Good people.
The owner told me that his dispensary is probably going to be closed by the Feds. I don't know his source for what he told me, but it sounded like a leak of wiki size.
He said that the DEA has received an enormous amount of money from three particularly popular big pharms who have been losing profits because of marijuana. He said the news really hit him hard and that his dispensary has one elderly woman who use to live with a morphine drip who only uses hubby bars now. He didn't think her particular case was something so widespread in general that the big pharms were feeling the pinch.
Well, I myself was on a fucking boatload of pharm pills and now I manage it all with cannabis. I have anxiety issues. Insomnia. Depression. And it isn't easy to handle it all just straight up sober. In my experience, I myself can NOT handle it all sober which is WHY I use drugs.
Marijuana takes the edge off of my anxiety. (I realize that it causes others massive anxiety. If that is YOU, gentle reader, then don't smoke pot, ok?) I can bring myself back from suicidal despair with a blunt and "bad boys of comedy" on Netflix.
I have determined in my time that I am dangerous when I try to do life raw. I just can't hang with it. But I don't want to be all kinds of medicated by the fucking man, dig? I don't want to go back on the next best pill, distributed by the millions into medicine cabinets everywhere making somebody somewhere some money, but not doing shit in MY community.
Meanwhile, my local dispensary often has locally grown cannabis. The people who work there are solid. They like their jobs. They have full coverage. 401k. They shop at the local market. Go to the same dentist I do. Good people.
So we have good people doing a good thing providing goods and services to their customers honestly and fairly.
This is playing itself out all across California.
It's going SO well, big pharms are experiencing some financial pain. They are going to solve the issue by giving the DEA money, and telling them to close the dispensaries down.
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cock sucking mother fucking bullshit deal. We have no privacy from people who only seem to want to hear our lives so they can get the most money from us. It's just all about money. I'm not naive. I know it's all about money.
But the people I know aren't the ones making money. My aunt just lost my grandmother's home. It's been in the family since the 1920s. My home is scheduled to go on auction in two weeks. None of us fully employed. Some of us have two bachelors but work part time in retail. Some of us have masters but are drawing unemployment. No one in my immediate or extended family is fully employed with good benefits. Those days are fucking gone.
We have all suffered great losses. If you could see it, the middle classes would look like a hurricane came through our financial lives and eviscerated our opportunities.
That's not enough. NOW let's close up the pot shops.
I'm sorry, but in the end, these are NOT the changes I was believing in when Obama got elected. I'm not blaming him. I'm blaming myself for thinking any US president would ever be anything but a puppet for big money ever again.
There does not seem to be any point to anything anymore. It feels like we are squeezed by a huge snake and we are powerless. We will be slowly crushed to death as this stranglehold continues, all the while the ones outside of the snakes grasp watch delighted as we fall.
Delighted as we fall. Delighted as we fall.
Hi-Ho The Rich are safe, delighted as we fall.
The owner told me that his dispensary is probably going to be closed by the Feds. I don't know his source for what he told me, but it sounded like a leak of wiki size.
He said that the DEA has received an enormous amount of money from three particularly popular big pharms who have been losing profits because of marijuana. He said the news really hit him hard and that his dispensary has one elderly woman who use to live with a morphine drip who only uses hubby bars now. He didn't think her particular case was something so widespread in general that the big pharms were feeling the pinch.
Well, I myself was on a fucking boatload of pharm pills and now I manage it all with cannabis. I have anxiety issues. Insomnia. Depression. And it isn't easy to handle it all just straight up sober. In my experience, I myself can NOT handle it all sober which is WHY I use drugs.
Marijuana takes the edge off of my anxiety. (I realize that it causes others massive anxiety. If that is YOU, gentle reader, then don't smoke pot, ok?) I can bring myself back from suicidal despair with a blunt and "bad boys of comedy" on Netflix.
I have determined in my time that I am dangerous when I try to do life raw. I just can't hang with it. But I don't want to be all kinds of medicated by the fucking man, dig? I don't want to go back on the next best pill, distributed by the millions into medicine cabinets everywhere making somebody somewhere some money, but not doing shit in MY community.
Meanwhile, my local dispensary often has locally grown cannabis. The people who work there are solid. They like their jobs. They have full coverage. 401k. They shop at the local market. Go to the same dentist I do. Good people.
So we have good people doing a good thing providing goods and services to their customers honestly and fairly.
This is playing itself out all across California.
It's going SO well, big pharms are experiencing some financial pain. They are going to solve the issue by giving the DEA money, and telling them to close the dispensaries down.
One.
By.
One.
cock sucking mother fucking bullshit deal. We have no privacy from people who only seem to want to hear our lives so they can get the most money from us. It's just all about money. I'm not naive. I know it's all about money.
But the people I know aren't the ones making money. My aunt just lost my grandmother's home. It's been in the family since the 1920s. My home is scheduled to go on auction in two weeks. None of us fully employed. Some of us have two bachelors but work part time in retail. Some of us have masters but are drawing unemployment. No one in my immediate or extended family is fully employed with good benefits. Those days are fucking gone.
We have all suffered great losses. If you could see it, the middle classes would look like a hurricane came through our financial lives and eviscerated our opportunities.
That's not enough. NOW let's close up the pot shops.
I'm sorry, but in the end, these are NOT the changes I was believing in when Obama got elected. I'm not blaming him. I'm blaming myself for thinking any US president would ever be anything but a puppet for big money ever again.
There does not seem to be any point to anything anymore. It feels like we are squeezed by a huge snake and we are powerless. We will be slowly crushed to death as this stranglehold continues, all the while the ones outside of the snakes grasp watch delighted as we fall.
Delighted as we fall. Delighted as we fall.
Hi-Ho The Rich are safe, delighted as we fall.