Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "Dimebags vs. Dispensaries: Street Dealers to Multi-Million Dollar Weed Startups" video.

  1. It is true that Marijuana policy was formed largely out of racism. Mexicans and black people have preferred marijuana over alcohol basically forever, whereas traditionally (although not at all exclusively) alcohol was seen more as the "white party drug". Until cocaine came along, but I digress. Anyway it was banned in large part because it was making their "colored" people more lazy, and more likely to sit around the campfire talking about how bad their situation is or even worse than that -- start getting ideas to run away or rebel. To start getting ideas at ALL. When WW2 came along they briefly legalized hemp/cannabis again so they could make parachutes. There was a program called "Hemp for Victory" where farmers were actually legally required to manufacture it (or were generously encouraged anyway) by a program run by the government called "Hemp for Victory". After the war was over, it quickly was made illegal again. Then the drug war started shortly after that. And that's where we are today. But yeah it's 100% true that marijuana policy is based just about entirely upon racism. Beyond that I think they didn't think it was conducive to a functioning society because what are the images of people who smoke weed. Glued to the couch, not really producing as much (stereotypically anyway), eating more food and likely even entertaining ideas of communist societies etc. Basically they felt like it was no good for the country and because the lawmakers in large part didn't like it, they didn't care enough to change it. It's only until recently that I have finally changed my mind, that marijuana may actually be legalized on a federal level within my lifetime.
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  2. Unfortunately the problem with the stock market is usually by the time you've heard of something and see that it's successful, the ideal time to get in has already past. I am sure the business will keep growing so you'll make a dollar or two but I wish I could've been a partner of this guy like 5 years before he decided to make the switch. Get in on those dirt floor prices, become a legitimate partner, and your percentage of that $40 million will be far higher for much cheaper.
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  3. I 100% guarantee they're still involved to some degree in the illegal marijuana trade. A lot of these vendors who sell weed by day legally in their shops are meanwhile selling stuff on the Dark Web (if they have the tech knowledge to take advantage of that). You can basically charge double for the same buds. It's not legal, but then again technically it's not truly legal in "legal states" either it's just too little of a priority and it's making too much money that the federal government currently doesn't want to enforce it's own laws. Hopefully they wise up sooner than later and just legalize it everywhere.
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  4. Marijuana is the propaganda name of the plant anyway. The proper name is and has always been Cannabis. Marijuana was meant to cast this almost like "voodoo-esque" spookiness to the word and make people fear the plant more, thus further cementing and justifying their policy against the plant. But yeah you'll find that people who respect the plant more will use the word Cannabis vs Marijuana just out of spite of the history of the word Marijuana.
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  5.  Get Money  I always slip up myself, the real name of the plant is Cannabis -- marijuana is it's propaganda name basically but yeah I heard about that as well. It just makes it sound scarier/more dangerous
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  6. See you Thanksgiving in the Dome :D Who Dat lol it's all in good fun. I'll admit your stadium is fancier than ours, though
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  7. I don't think they hate white people but the reality is the experience of black and/or otherwise colored people in this world, especially in America, IS different. That doesn't mean they hate white people, it's just not exactly on even playing fields yet, and some white people assume that because the law has changed that the entire system has changed. It hasn't. It's better, but there is definitely still work to do. That's not to say there aren't SOME racist black people, but I can see how someone who has had it perpetrated against them their entire lives may harbor a little of it in themselves after a while too.
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  8. It's a documentary by a black man, about black men, who are celebrated in their own communities for taking a craft they had already mastered into the legal sphere and finally proving that hard work and determination can yield positive results for people of color, too. Why does this offend people so much? It's not to denigrate white people or anything they've ever achieved, it's highlighting that finally we're seeing upward mobility in a group that has historically struggled with it basically forever. This is a GOOD thing. White people look at the race issue with almost an eye-roll or whatever but like I do think if white people had to live a week in the shoes of a black man they'd immediately see what people were talking about. From having people recoil and like clutch their purses closer to them as they walk past you, to following you around stores or whatever "in case you try to steal something" when you may have the fattest wallet in the store. Just little things like that. The law says we all have equal rights but we are still a ways off before we have actual, true equity in the form of society. If we ever get it at all. The best thing we can try to do though is to try to understand one another and our respective situations in life, but as a white person I just wanna let other people know that it's just as Kanye said. Racism is still alive, they're just concealing it. But it doesn't have to be that way.
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