Some exchange already has the trademark for the cannabis contract, complete with symbols and physical delivery destinations I am sure, if not I am getting it tomorrow morning.
the market always finds a way of correcting it's inefficiencies... even when there's a government trying to sustain such inefficiencies.
Tell the CIA to stop smuggling it. Who has not noticed that drug production in Afghanistan is at an all time HIGH, under the watchful eye of the USA? Coincidence? People living in caves somehow outwit the western military industrial regime? Does that make sense?
"People living in caves somehow outwit the western military industrial regime? Does that make sense?" HA! Good question!
Reason is that war on drugs is a big bussiness for government, cops, lawyers, judges, politicians and dealers. How do you make money from bunch of fags?
Good Point! Yes, there is a long history of CIA involvement in the trafficking of narcotics:- The CIA was aiding the Kuo Min Tang raising funds to fight the communists by trafficking opium through the Golden Triangle. Aiding the Contras in Nicaragua by assisting them in trafficking Cocaine through central America Assisting the Mujahaddin in Aghanistan by smuggling drugs in order to fund weapons purchases etc
Yes. They had a base in northern CR... in Ollie's point... that they used for those pourposes... and they paid the CR gov around $1million per day to get them to ignore all the activity in the north.
Orwell understood that money is <B>not</b> the typical politician's primary motivator. No, not money, but something else entirely... ________________ From 1984: 'You understand well enough ~how~ the party maintains itself in power. Now tell me ~why~ we cling to power. What is our motive? Why should we want power? Go on, speak,' he added as Winston remained silent. [...] Nevertheless Winston did not speak for another moment or two. [...] 'You are ruling over us for our own good,' he said feebly. 'You believe that human beings are not fit to govern themselves, and therefore - He started and almost cried out. A pang of pain had shot through his body. O'Brien had pushed the lever of the dial up to thirty-five. 'That was stupid, Winston, stupid!' he said. 'You should know better than to say a thing like that.' He pulled the lever back and continued: 'Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. <b>The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.</b> What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. <b>The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?'</b>