Recreational Cannabis in Missouri Raises Questions of Equity
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- The legalization of medical marijuana in Missouri has resulted in $30 million in sales in June of 2022 alone. As an upcoming ballot measure seeks to legalize recreational use, Flatland looks at who currently benefits most from this emerging industry and whether those affected most by damaging policies of the war on drugs are getting a fair cut.
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Real equity is; I keep the money that I make, and you keep the money that you make. No taxes at all. Period.
I disagree but what what about the military?
@@sleepyhead8681 oh like the 61% of the pentagons 3.5 trillion in assets that is just unaccounted for? And this is the 5th year in a row they have failed their financial audit in 20 out of 27 departments within. Yes, I definitely trust them more than myself to handle my money. What a joke
@@sleepyhead8681 you can fund war voluntarily. Follow me here, what if everyone had to pay the same tax % but you can pick from a list the areas you'd want your money to go. Like, if you wanted half your taxes to fund the military industrial complex, you can check a box for it. If you wanted your taxes to fund public education, check that box. We really don't need congress.
@@dystopiandream7134 Flat rate taxes is regressive and would likely increase taxes on the poorest people... why wouldn't the tax is theft ppl just choose not pay?
Sales tax, you spend you pay, even drug dealers buy stuff but don't a pay any "income" tax.
Putting such tight restrictions on specifics of a business such as controlling who they can do business with is unethical in the way Missouri is going. Why can't a small wholesale business sell to a large business with the capabilities of actually buying the product? They're ensuring the small guys can't make money.
@@formerfreak4943 I don't care I'm just happy I can smoke weed again after years without and worry. I just spent some more money on lights to expand my grow room I have in my basement for growing flowers, fruits and vegetables. I have a nice garden outside and I made a grow room in my basement for seedlings and about 20 different type of flower and vegetable plants because I love taking care of them all year round. I decided to expand the area for more than enough room for 6 mature cannabis plants and I'm waiting on seeds that I ordered online. I just can't wait to grow them and try my hand at cross breeding and things like that it sounds like so much fun.
How does voting against recreational fix this? Honest question because it sounds like the entire licensing structure needs an overhaul but keeping cannabis medical only isn't a great answer either.
I love how they said the money would go to help veterans. But when you looked at the PDF file of the bill.. there was nothing about the money going to help veterans.. it is all going to sheriff office police training DHSS for training and a new job they are creating with the bill they passed.
The only good part of the bill was the expungement of criminal records and the decriminalization of recreational cannabis.
But what everyone doesn't realize is this gives the cops back probable cause to arrest you.
No they can't arrest you for possession... but let's say your eyes are red (for whatever reason) your vehicle stinks of good sticky cannabis.. you make 1 small mistake in front of a cop and get pulled over... now because you have more then 1 tell tale sign that you may have been using cannabis during or right before driving. They have probable cause to now pull you out of the vehicle and test you for DUI. And please tell me how your going to beat a FALSE DUI if you have smoked atleast 3 days prior to that traffic stop? You won't and there is going to be a huge increase in DUI arrests. Because the cops still have to make their quota. And it is still an easy arrest and conviction.
@@soulseeker42388 I've only been pulled over in Missouri once by a cop who didn't have cause. That was a MO Highway Patrolmen who suspected I was carrying weight. I refused to let him search my car until I was practically hypothermic standing outside because I knew he didn't have cause, but I also knew if he brought in a dog the dog would alert him, so I finally gave him permission to search, but I also told him I knew what he'd done to me was illegal and that the few grams of "dirt weed" he'd find wouldn't impress anyone at HQ. I wasn't a jerk though. I just told him the truth, so he ended up letting me go.
That was around 25 years ago, just a year before I moved here. I have never been harassed by law enforcement since living here. I live in rural SW MO and rarely go to our bigger cities here but I've never been harassed when I have. Weed has been a pretty low priority for our law enforcement for a pretty long time. You can't go driving around like Cheech and Chong but you can take a quick puff now and then and not get harassed. For the record, I've been driving for 46 years and have never been in an accident or got a moving violation, or even a parking ticket. Been puffing doobies for 50 years.
The laws we've passed could be a lot better, but we'll be able to work on that. Just the evolution from criminal to medicinal to legal with restrictions shows we can continue to make progress.
Grow your own Marijuana! These dispensaries are taxing your the F out of your pockets! Medical & recreational marijuana has been monopolized & been catered to a specific group of people.
I am so glad it passed to legalize it in Missouri. It is still going to be both medical and rec here so you can get 2 different strengths. At 2 different tax rates. It has made a HUGE difference in my quality of life, letting me be able to do things I have not been able to do in years! It masks the pain!
No difference in strength.
Still does nothing to the quality of the medicine that they are putting out it's not even the same it doesn't do therapeutic effects like it used to
@@youtubeuser4027 I just came to say that bro it's ridiculous it's not even the same medicine
The cannabis industry in Missouri is pathetic.
I used to work with that guy at ILLICIT gardens, They are drug addicts not just with cannabis but harder drugs. I got to see deep into the operation and let me tell you the frosty crystally nugs we used to see years and years ago those are molded ruined and rotted and they don't ever get to go to the store shelf because they don't do trim or cure properly at all they need to be reported their testing is not up to par they're lying about test results we need to get feds in there.!!!
@@DJ-vr5mp LOL I wish people with closed minds came with closed MOUTHS also!
Worked for them in 2021 here in KC. 18 flower rooms and 63 lights per room 1500 watts per light and still can’t grow!! Illicit is a joke! They don’t care about the product going out just the $$$$
Stay away from Illicit? Which would you suggest?
Free market is definitely the answer. Our "government" has always, even more so now, has been structured as to how to make money off the people.
Him describing going off to prison and his brothers cry, broke me down! Still wiping the tears.... I'm sorry you went through that sir. You seem like a great man. I hope you make them pay with all your success.
It made me tear up as well.
So all involved in this documentary should be opposed to Kamala Harris?
Probably the most boring video on weed you'll ever watch.
There are no boring videos, only boring people who watch videos.
Wasn't that bad.
Its all my Fault cause im White ? Well i also dont give a dam
Equity is a word being misrepresented in almost every sense of the meaning these days. If you are not talking finances you don't know what you are talking about.
So, instead of the drug dealers making all the money from marijuana, now the states who passed recreational use will take over that distinction. Will underground sales still exist? Of course it will.
The greedy politicians made the tax on legal pot was too crazy! The black market will; thrive thanks to the too high taxes on the legal kind! Black market weed is cheaper and better. Lower the price and you will sell a lot more!
@Ben Woody well Mr Woody here in Waynesville Missouri at our dispensary it's $65 an eighth which would make it $520 an ounce $8,320 dollars a pound, I know this because I bought some of their product thinking man this is going to be some awesome stuff, and the weed I had in my pocket from my plants was much better and I would have a hard time getting $250 a quarter pound wtf
That's not the way it works. Look at Cali...they are having to subsidize the legal growers and sellers because the black market has taken over..same will happen in every state that legalizes recreational use. No state has realized the income they thought they would get from legalizing weed.
Thank Biden he wrote alot of prison bills n his day
Equity, smequity… so much BS.
Free market is the answer.
I think if your state legalize marijuana and you have a conviction for possession it should be taken off your records.
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I whipped out a lighter thumbed up a flame
Sucked down that smoke which comforts my brain.
I tried alcohol smoked cigarettes
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My mom had arthritis could not walk around
I rolled her a joint she danced on the ground.
I thought I was losing my lovemaking knack
After I smoked some to me it came back.
Soon I decided prices were high
I searched for some ground I wouldn't have to buy.
I bargained for seeds from smokers all around
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I dug up the ground sowed all my seeds
Said a small prayer for strong, healthy weeds.
I watered at night with a five-gallon pail
Mosquitoes went hungry for I wore a veil.
Seven months went by; I thought I would die
Till the Halloween moon was high in the sky.
At night I went out, in a camouflage suit
Used my corn knife to chop down the loot.
I hung it up to dry where it couldn’t be found.
Came back and got it, when it had turned brown.
I trimmed off the buds, stuffed them in bags
Called all my friends and passed out free drags.
In less than a week my crop was gone
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with the collapse of the rec market in Colorado , I think the USA needs to have a serious rethink on WTF they are doing , the Licensing, allowing big corporations to run chains of dispos is bullsh+t & is only lining pockets of legal criminals now . Im In Europe & glad its still illegal if whats happening in the USA has anything to go by .
It has been legal in Canada for 5 years now, and most of the government approved weed is garbage and overpriced.
At least when it was illegal it still got you high🤷♂️
The Missouri bootheel is less than two hours away from where I live. Now that my children are grown, I'll be selling my house, hooking up my large travel trailer, and heading west. I'm ready for a working semiretirement, It isn't work when you love what you do.
See in a way that's how life happened to me for only have an oz, it's crazy for something so small here in Kansas that will put you away. I was fortunate to do 6mths but after getting out life was so hard trying to find work places to live all because of my pot record but once I put the work in and kept fighting I got my 6month down to 3months best my lawyer could but with things changing here in Missouri will see the example for Kansas, but this video gives me more motivation to work into the industry y'all set a good example for people in this video but this gives me hope so one day my dream is become a dispensary owner or something in the works like that.
Dont worry about equity the black market is going to run Missouri weed business .
NO ONE FORCED ANYONE TO SMOKE POT! They knew it was illegal. Do not do the crime if you can not do the time . I agree it should be legal but that is work that you need to do. The records should be clean after it is made legal.
7 years in prison IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT, I COMPLETELY FEEL FOR THAT MAN.
Much respect D
It's the dummies who get caught.
Welcome to Missouri where the rich folk who kept cannabis illegal for years get there foot in the door first and all they see is dollar sign’s unlike the little guys who have lobbied for this plant for years were the ones who grow the best because we love this plant. Change the law let us all grow for the big companies give the little guys a chance to make a living with the plant that they’ve loved for years
The bill that passed has in it a very perilous clause. If you grow,they can search you at will.
I hope they bring down the prices 😜😁
7 years for some weed?? Man that is beyond messed up.
I cannot believe she would ever even speak. Not being arrested herself.. she has no room to talk.
The cannabis industry in Missouri is pathetic.
I used to work with that guy at ILLICIT gardens, They are drug addicts not just with cannabis but harder drugs. I got to see deep into the operation and let me tell you the frosty crystally nugs we used to see years and years ago those are molded ruined and rotted and they don't ever get to go to the store shelf because they don't do trim or cure properly at all they need to be reported their testing is not up to par they're lying about test results we need to get feds in there.!!!
This company that they interviewed and went into their facility is ridiculous they are satanist at the top they put satanic artwork in their products and I see there's satanic symbols all over when I was there.
Stop it with the skin color labels
Hey brother I am thinking about moving to a recreationally legal state and get into the marijuana industry! How do you think I should go about it? Thanks bud
Just thinking about it means your years behind and probably should look elsewhere.
Dante I did prison time in ks also in 2002 3lbs 18months. Much love bro
Everybody we can grow our own now. Its not hard.
I'd like to talk. I'm interested in creating something in Missouri as well
From the earth and illicit have gone down hill quick
Marijuana should be regulated the same as tobbaco or caffeine. It's has zero effect relationship to alcohol.
Well the votes are in
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Still needs to be trimmed up 😂
Harvest, hang till dry then buck buds off and quick trim them leaving sugar leaves. After 10-14 cure do a final trim.
God's good bro... Iam a strong 💪 believer that Good will always triumph over evil .Ahooo.
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That guy does know after like 6 years you can get misdemeanors off your record right? His charge will always be there is a lie unless he does nothing about it
The cannabis industry in Missouri is pathetic.
I used to work with that guy at ILLICIT gardens, They are drug addicts not just with cannabis but harder drugs. I got to see deep into the operation and let me tell you the frosty crystally nugs we used to see years and years ago those are molded ruined and rotted and they don't ever get to go to the store shelf because they don't do trim or cure properly at all they need to be reported their testing is not up to par they're lying about test results we need to get feds in there.!!!
He's lying bro that's not all he has on his record I know that fool I used to work with him.
@@NewLifeFromTheWayofTruth ok so what else is there then mr internet professor
This is the South Missouri don't give a f about equity
You don’t want it recreational. Cause u loose money. I think the should drop millions of seed across the country. When it’s as common as rabbit tobacco. It will loose its cool.
Equity.. not equality. I call BS.
Hey at least we got red passed it's a step we still need more done no doubt,but Kansas is a pain
Looking at 5 years for over 5 plants in KY now.. I tell you what's funny.. the cops told me that I had been excused of all those.. lol. If they are gone,, how do they still know.. that will always be a thing. Go to court. They can say. Your honor,, this person was excused of so in so on so in so date.. it may be irrelevant,, but they heard it..
Half the people in that video got laid off
I already seen the episode where randy goes into business with tokens dad at tegrity farms
should be no differnt then enter the market store & buy a 6 pack of beer
Maybe?
The first story is about a guy getting arrested in kansas which is NOT missouri. Kansas city Missouri was a city long before kansas was a state
Heard the herbs sucks in the show me state
How can they say its a race thing its not if your African American or hispanic it weather or not you have the financial backing and a somewhat clean record the people who issue the licenses dont even know weather your african American,hispanic or Caucasian it all comes down to financial stability i mean if you had a program to issue licenses would you issue one to someone who has no evidence of finances or to someone who had the financial stabilization to back the cost of what your trying to license not for nothing but i would go for the guy who has the funds then waste licenses to individual who had no financial stability period same with a house loan from a bank if you dont have the credit then im 100% sure they wont sell you the home unless you have an outrageous apr
Gibs.
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To everyone asking. I think the Motto goes,if it don't make dollars it don't make sense..greed is the real evil!💚smoke weed everyday 💚..on a totally different side note,wtf goin on with dudes mustache?not being rude ,I genuinely want to know!
Ok video I do not like the race baiting but that is the way it is now.
"Recreation" means "refreshment or curing of a person" to "renew" or be "recreated".
The true meaning of recreation is what I hope is the purpose of using cannabis. However, I know too many users who climb into debauchery when using it. That is the big concern for many. If you want to use cannabis, be responsible and do it with believing it is not a "party" enhancer, or, to be mixed with alcohol. It should be used in meditation to reflect on your self to face your demons. There is when the renewal comes.
I’ll step down, now.
You just showed how much propaganda has influenced you... obviously you know nothing of ture cannabis users saying they turn to debauchery.. the only reason cannabis users have ever turn to debauchery is because of the government and legal status. You know after you got caught with cannabis you were treated worse then a child raping pedophile.
I personally am one of those people your talking about and the only reason I have as bad of a background as I do is because of the stigma that previously surrounded cannbis users.
Because I got caught with cannabis. And became a felon here in Missouri for it (2004) I was denied housing housing assistance financial assistance job job promotions food stamps basically any type of help to maybe actually get my life back together I was denied.
So when your treated worse then a child raping pedophile yeah you have a tendency to do whatever you can in life to survive and not care about the consequences.
And I say treated worse then them because here in Missouri if you deny pedophiles any of those same things it is considered discrimination and a hate crime. Pedophiles here could get all the financial assistance available along with housing assistance and food stamps. Depending on the job (no contact with kids obviously) they get hired and promotions. But if you has been convicted of cannabis. You are the worst scum of the earth.
@@soulseeker42388
Where in what I said did I claim all people who use cannabis climb into debauchery? Nothing that I said had any subtext into what your experience is. You do not know me, nor do you know my stance on cannabis. Notice, I did not say "weed" or "marijuana", because I call it what it is.
You should reread what I posted, without assuming I am attacking you or your experience. My comment was only toward those who misuse cannabis. Just as food is meant for nourishment and is abused by some as gluttony, cannabis is, also, abused by those who seek only to enhance their social experience.
Absolutely, the criminalization of cannabis has had a horrible effect on many justified users. I recognize that it is a plant with some very good qualities. However, in the wrong hands, those qualities become hidden and the ignorance of it’s use has placed it in the minds of many as a bad plant. |God| did not make anything to be bad, but, bad intentions obscure the reality of it. Education is where it should begin.
Maybe that clears some things up for you.
Thanks for setting up the guidelines for us, Karen. Your concerns and ideals are most important to us. I hope the whole world starts acting the way you want.
@@jimandskittum
Thank you for sharing your opinion.
Do you feel achieved by your fascist grouping of others? Just because you would rather satisfy your primal urges instead of taking care of your self does not mean I am wrong in what I have shared. In fact, your response does more to justify me than it does you. Call me whatever you wish. Your words against me do not hinder the truth I know.
@@Templestone You're welcome crazy lady.
Marijuana is very harmful to public health, no less so than alcohol or cigarettes. I know from personal experience that children who smoke pot do worse in life by a variety of measures: education, family and intimacy, career advancement and choice, crime victim. What I hear on this piece is the same combination of victim equity dogma that degrades society when used in other contexts. Then, of course, there is the black market and it’s impact on illegal completion, health, crime, etc….
And weeds still getting legalized, cry about it
@@CaptainSwaggerMcPimp true, is some places but California weed industry collapsed and returning to criminal penalty is now on the table in at least three currently legal states. Unlike alcohol, weed also entangled with cartels and opiate and meth manufacture, distribution is driving even more calls for returning to criminal penalty. If it were true that individuals could grow and smoke their own, then that is quite different than the so-called weed retailing, which is a total sham too. I think in a short few years, society will understand that the weed grown today is as harmful as opiates and speed. Time will be the judge.
Facts how would a person feels when you smoke a marijuana or do cannabis can a any age guy still can smack a females face like the females to do a has a guy face ? Good question maybe should be happening this way you know who going to be end up in the hospital frist you think its rigjt for a person way to say it ? Then why you said its ok for a person to smoke week ? Well got a real answer for that since your life cant be replaced ! It not a trick qeustion .
When The Leader returns, he will crush this and the addicts who use it.
prove it
Fascist
Is that the same leader that gave us all seed bearing plants to use? Should the US issue an arrest warrant for Yeshua for the crime of creating and cultivating cannabis on the planet earth?
Bozo
Always playing the victim
Haha what you did was Circumvent to constitution and give all the sales sales sales outside sources