Hypocrisy for $100 Alex.
The disgust for marijuana is so complete with many in the legislative majority, they fail to see their own hypocrisy in their pathetic lawmaking efforts. After listening to the debate and the sincerity of grown men pretending to want to obey the constitutional law, while they do all they can to defy it through statute, we are left with a system that has only a few thousand patients eligible to use medical Soviet style control of the growth and distribution licenses granted to 6 (eight now due to litigation) well-heeled, well-connected and well-represented (lawyers and lobbyists) who represent a Cartel to control the market in Florida. Crony captialism is alive and well in Florida’s Republican controlled government.
This debate continues while House Speaker Richard Corcoran travels the state preaching how he won’t “pick winners and losers” in Florida. Well, Mr Speaker – you just did! The blatant stupidity of this debate is not lost on anyone with common sense and armed with a freshman college level class in economics. You see, those in an industry often try to create artificial barriers to entry to keep competition out. Oligopolies are extremely efficient organizations that do a great job of price fixing in legal ways. And with the help of government regulation, the eight-member oligopoly in medical marijuana can set prices as it sees fit.
