A lot of you folks have no idea of the battle that has been fought to get the re-legalization of cannabis to the point it's at now. Just the method of how it actually became illegal is unknown to the vast majority but believe me it was huge corporations in the early 1900s that pushed the gov't onto the prohibition path.
Cannabis was a commonly used part of hundreds of over the counter medications for over a century then what is now the FDA came into being as well as the early AMA to regulate doctors and mold them into what they are now. Quacks educated by Big Pharma and totally devoid of any understanding of how the human body really functions. A pill for every ill is the only thing they know and every scrip they write is another dollar in their pocket and 5 more for Big Pharma who is making billions by keeping your health "managed" but never curing your ills.
Keep choking back those Big Macs and washing them down with high fructose corn syrup sweetened cokes or even worse, Diet Coke. Big Pharma will fend off death long enough to drain your bank account then good-bye sucka, who's next! There's another sucker born every minute so they can't lose. The house always wins.
You would think that after 13 or so years of alcohol prohibition and the gangs that grew out of them that the gov't would have learned their lesson when it came to doing the same thing with pot and all other drugs demonized in our law books now but alas it was not to be. Look at what has happened since the '30s and tell me it's not a thousand times worse. Al Capone would be considered a pussy by the drug lords running things now. Gangs like the CIA, FBI etc have been the biggest dealers in the drug trade since their inceptions.
Our last PM, Herr Harper, was bought and paid for by big corporations and set up this corporate being composed of Legal Producers to usurp free growing of pot and keep it in the hands of Big Pot. Every dime you give to these greedy pricks promotes the new corporate prohibition against pot.
I realize that most people can't or won't bother growing their own and even some are trying to do that and have no easy access to pot in the interim so fall prey to the LPs. Or get sucked in there because they had to resort to a paid clinic and were sent there without their understanding of what it entailed. How f'ed is that, that you can only buy from one source?
I live way up in northern Alberta in the middle of nowhere and if I didn't grow my own would be stuck for a source of good meds too. Any street pot I've smoked in the last 30 years is total crap and tastes of pesticides and nute burn bad. Quick dried bulk pot that really deserves to be called weed.
So, if you have to, get your schwag from LPs for now but in the meantime educate yourself about the history of prohibition and the players behind the scenes and if you really have an open mind you too will find a way to not support the corporate takeover of legal cannabis.
Rant over. Please resume your regular activities and a Merry Xmas to all!