The Commercialization Issue with Marijuana!

Now the prohibition is ending in several American states, the question as to whether commercial marijuana sold in regulated markets should be allowed is the tricky question. When we consider the billions to be made and remember what tobacco and alcohol companies did, it would be wise to impose restrictions at the nascent stages. Otherwise what may happen is a glut of marijuana products that compel people to overindulge for the sake of greater sales. Just like tobacco and alcohol companies advertise as if life cannot exist without their products, so would the cannabis guys! We appreciate how quickly teenagers and youth would succumb to temptations.

Will the Washington gift model work?

What is the alternative to commercial production? District of Columbia made cannabis legal all right but does not permit sale of the product. Doing business is not allowed though you can grow your own that is pretty encouraging though. You can grow, smoke it and give it as a gift too. What are the other states doing? Colorado and Washington State are establishing regulated markets in marijuana after legalizing it but how?

Collecting taxes and imposing rules and procedures may end up like an alcohol and tobacco industry but the details are not quite clear. There seems to be no middle path after all between prohibition and commercial legalization. The non-commercial legalization leaves a few loopholes and we realize that criminal elements could step in and commence underground activity. In any case, the illegal marijuana market operates side by side and obtaining the stuff either way was never difficult.

Now it is too late to go back anyway!

There is no going back on the marijuana question though Federal laws still run counter. Marijuana is here to stay in America and several countries worldwide like Uruguay, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, to mention some. China, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia are some countries that may never embrace marijuana. The question of growing your own may not be practiced by all users and so the inevitable black market wins. Extreme liberalization will only breed excessive indulgence with too many highs in the town. Not having strict laws would give rise to the culture of the violent mafia and we already know what drug gangs are capable of. Maybe we have invited trouble by making marijuana legal with no proof as yet of the immense medicinal properties. Let us continue to wait and hope.