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Old Posted Jan 9, 2018, 8:17 PM
Wolf13 Wolf13 is offline
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Originally Posted by borkborkbork View Post
I'd kind of think the opposite. Right now, your weed dealer probably already sells other substances.

When weed is legalized, you'll buy it from a place that *only* deals in weed.

In other words, I'll go from having to deal with people who sell all sorts of drugs (with whatever risks you think may come with that) to not having to ever deal with anyone who sells hard drugs.
The consumer.

You're forgetting the service provider. These people aren't going to retire, or seek gainful employment, or start moderating SSP. They're going to the next most marketable product they have and push the shit out of it, and find an end user. They always have.

Kids respond to stigmas as well as to the thrill, and this is about the psychology of it all... regardless of how weed isn't bad compared to other drugs, it was the illegal gateway drug. The curious consumer, or cool consumer, will look for the next illegal gateway drug. The danger might be relative to them. A lot of people will get bored with the legality of weed.

More crucially, they may have trusted relationships with these dealers, who will push products on them.

If Drake is signed to label 1, and gets picked up by label 2 (the gov in this case), label one is going to find someone to replace him. And since he's the softest rapper of all time, they're going to replace him with something harder.
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