Botanist
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We are counting our chickens before they hatch.
There is no way to avoid the greed factor and once it's legal to grow with a licence commercially the small grower will have a reduced presence in the market.
I am all for testing smoke. I sure know I don't want to pay retail then send it out to the lab.
So to avoid poisoning folks we do create testing requirements. Agriculture has to submit already. Cannabis will have to submit too.
That's just logical for any legal produce being sold to people.
The key here is a Legal market system.
No, it is not logical and that is my point. I know that government already has its tentacles in most all of the market. That is not a logical argument for letting them suck the life out of a new market.
If the key is a legal market then we need to look at the law. The law in all cases is first created in every country to protect the individuals rights. The nanny state your advocating cannot both protect rights while its also the largest violator of them. When government tells me how to grow my pot or makes me run it through some test it has violated my right to liberty (the right to chose), my right to produce, and trade how i see fit. Not how some elected dick or voting block sees fit.
It may not seem like much to you and others that you can force companies to jump through you hoops, but it is this philosophy of government that has lead us to where we are today. Had we had a government back in the day that truly respected individual rights marijuana would be legal today. And not to get to far off track but the federal reserve would have been looked at as a violation of rights and the finical crisis would never have been either.
So morally it is wrong. that is if your morality dives you to view human life as heroic. Economically it makes little sense to place anything... at all in the hands of government. Read Economics in one lesson.
All you end up with is high prices, low quality, and little to no control. When you spend your money you get the best you can for the best price. When you spend some one else's money to by good and services for some one else you get bad quality and bad prices. Read Human Action.
It is not logical simply because its being done already.
And now time for another quote from the God among men Thomas Jefferson
"and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."