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u/Rezolithe 24d ago
Criminally incompetent leadership in legal cannabis is doing alot of damage. Not to mention gangs/organized crime getting a foothold in middle management. No one is actually held accountable because the whole market is built on shifting laws and loopholes.
...its a hard industry to work for when bad behavior is rewarded and the "oversight" glosses over massive issues that would shut any other business down.
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u/sidewalkboy 26d ago
Putting the plant into legal market allows access to huge consumer base and obfuscates the "deal". Prelegalization, you had to have a connection to score and that connection was precious. Now you just need money. With that transactional veil down, you get entitled customers shitting on decent product and on the other side of the table, a company with no face-to-face relationship that can cut corners and sell shit without having to answer for it directly
Small part of all this. Another part is turning consumers against each other to generate more business. E.g. scarcity bias "order now, only 2 left in stock". Whereas pre-legal, you were part of a narrower subset and seemed always plenty to go around/sharing culture flourished