The rest of the world is still asleep, allowing major criminal empires to profit instead of their own countries... all because someone one day decided to demonise cannabis and associate it with 'reefer madness'
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*Because black and hispanic people smoked it first, you mean…
Cannabis was first made illegal specifically as a means to target non-white people by making something illegal that caused no issues for anyone. “Reefer madness” was bullshit that came around way way later
Sorry, I actually meant to allude to that first, so thanks for refining my point
For the love of fuck, there's nearly 30 million more people living in the UK than Canada. Imagine the chunk Cannabis taxes would take out of the national debt.
760, 000 euros per person is way too much. You should be below 300, 000. Does not seem like a stable industry.
can you explain your reason.
(also 760k CAD is about 470k Euro just so you are aware.)