Legalizing cannabis 'takes the bite' out of illegal growers: Expert | NewsNation Prime
Legalizing cannabis 'takes the bite' out of illegal growers: Expert | NewsNation Prime
Retired Lt. John Nores, formerly of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marijuana Division, joins “NewsNation Prime” to discuss how transnational crime rings are exploiting states that legalize marijuana.
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WHO BUYS WEED FROM SOME DUDE ON THE STREET in legal states? Nobody says would you like to buy my HOMEBREWED BEER? THERE IS NO MARKET FOR ILLEGAL CANNABIS from consumers that simply go to the store.
The legal weed in NY is trash. Keep the illegal cannbus market.
Legal markets only grow the market of people ready to buy cannbis… most people who consume cannabis do not care where they get it from.. the best product for the cheapest price wins.. no matter where it is.. retail or black market….. simple math… especially now as the laws which apply to those who consume and buy personal amounts of cannabis, have changed so much… The reason black markets are created is because of high taxation of those good in legal markets.. almost exclusively.. if cannabis was not taxed so severely, retail markets could put black market bad guys out of business… the issue is…. satan himself could be selling weed and there would be a line around the block to buy what he has…;) Because its FIRE and he is giving it away for free! Morality has never been a good mix for businesses related to consumption. Rarely are market cost of goods cut through morality enforced by consumption laws or taxes….. ps. the best weed i have seen in my life was not from retail markets and always had a crazy story behind it….
He’s wrong 😂
Sometimes I wonder if our leaders ever take a moment to think critically about how to actually get dangerous drugs off the streets. It blows my mind that after cannabis was legalized in several states, smuggling across the border practically vanished. That alone should be a wake-up call. Legalization and regulation weaken the black market and strip power from cartels. It works. But here’s the hard truth: I don’t think some of them want to fix the problem. For certain people in politics and law enforcement, the drug war isn’t just a battle. It’s job security. Solving it would mean smaller budgets, less influence, and fewer headlines. We’ve seen this play out before. When alcohol prohibition ended, those in power needed a new "public enemy." So they turned to cannabis. Back then, most Americans didn’t even realize that “hemp” and “marijuana” were the same plant, Cannabis sativa. That confusion wasn’t accidental. It was deliberately created. Things only got worse in 1976, when a paper by Ernest Small and Arthur Cronquist attempted to distinguish hemp from marijuana by THC content. That paper was never meant to be used as law, but policymakers hijacked it to draw an artificial line between two forms of the same plant. One was industrial, the other recreational. In reality, they’re just different expressions of cannabis, bred for different purposes. This entire framework was built on racist motives and economic protectionism. Not science. Not public health. And certainly not truth. It gave the government an excuse to ramp up enforcement and target communities of color. And now, decades later, we’re still untangling the lies spun to justify that system.
It’s time to stop parroting the myths pushed by Harry J. Anslinger. We need to face the facts, be honest about how we got here, and finally start moving toward a smarter, more just drug policy.
If it was legalized across the board and everyone was allowed to grow, there would be NO black market.
Texas will never learn. They’re trying to ban hemp. Please legalize I do not like buying my medication off the street.
Can we grow or make our own Suppositories..?
I grow my own at home!!!!!! I will not pay for weed when I can grow it . myself. Legal weed is always grown by crappy clones!!!!!!!
Its a plant grown here naturally on the planet we all live on. There should have been no "regulation" to begin with.
Anything made legal will always take from illegal sellers lol
I still buy from my plug I don’t want no government weed at no time just like cigarettes additives and preservers are put in for shelf life no thanks
Is he really pushing his book? What a grifter.
No it won’t lmao. The cartels will only dump billions and billions into the legal markets to monopolize it. Just like the tequila and avocado business.
Ok so legalizing fentanyl meth cocaine etc takes the bite out of manufacturers and traffickers? SMDH and FMTT. Ive heard it all 😂
The best weed apparently comes from an okalahoma suburb by a chinese national under a slavery setting
Dude says cartels, home growers put harsh chemicals on their plants… no dude thats american commercial made cannabis. I wouldnt buy anything from a dispensary
Notice he wont name the chemicals.
Stop it with the abrasive Cuomo at the end of your excellent videos.
The government creates the black market. Over taxing cannabis suppliers and consumers enables cartels to undercut legal cannabis and get rich.
They’ve been poisoning the oxygen in the air we have to breathe, so why are they bothered about this
😂🎉why is there only 5 leaves now?
It’s not taking the illegal grows out of the question.. they are still finding illegal grows all over this country
Legalizing weed in California tripled the size of the black market.
They let it happen then cry it’s raining weed ,what a joke they are gonna smuggle pesticides in when you can just buy green cleaner here in the USA.,Sounds fishy ,maybe 20 years ago .
its legal in canada and all i can say is it helped me quit drinking and turn my life around, anyone who thinks that stuff is worse than drinking is a fool
DEA is government overreach and needs to be defunded. Give that money to border patrol.
Lower prices would make it not worth doing illegal business.
If you continued to grow cannabis on those illegal grow sites for a few years and they will absorb most of those chemicals and you can plant none food crops there a few times and boom happy healthy soil again you just have to stop pouring poison on the ground and nature does the rest . Do some research and use your head . Some of these claims are flat out lies . And the government and state are letting illegal pot thrive and expand like never before and meanwhile all the shops can’t get a license to start a legit business and even then false testing and other things have corrupted that end of business too
This applies to all drugs. Legalize all of them. It will destroy cartels.
Just legalize it all the way across the board then we wouldn’t have immigrants breaking into our country to grow weed in the woods
There is no actual benefit of recreational pot there is a benefit of medical pot. Who benefits from recreational pot the drug addicts and the homeless medical pot is fine with me but recreational pot I’m totally against.
No it doesn’t. State weed is expensive and weak
Just legalize it and let adults grow 20 plants and everyone will be happy and say F the black market.
fake narrative
Naw. We just upped our fentanyl game and now that prices are going up for good herb, the black market is back for good baby!
The states that keep it illegal are the ones that incentivize criminal activity.
Cannabis laws don’t stop outlaws; instead they punish law abiders. In fact all laws punish law abiders because you, the law abider, have lost the freedom to do what was previously free for you to do. YOU lose something everytime a law is passed or abided – the outlaws lose nothing.
Sorry but weed has been legalized in Canada for 10 years and Organized Crime couldn’t be happier. Make sure your polices/laws around supply and sales are airtight.
More people are are addicted and die from prescription drugs than marijuana could ever do
Weed grows everywhere in India by itself and no body even looks at it. Why did America made a big deal about it?
Should have never been made illegal……ever
They love making excuses so they can get there hands on the dollar
So that’s what they are going to be doing in Texas? Seems rather convenient, being on the border, that and Trump recently pardoning some drug lords. It just looks too perfectly imperfect. What is happening to our world?
What about all the horrible stuff that America Companies is allowed to put in our food? That is illegal in other countries. Thank goodness that is about to change the thank 2 Robert F Kennedy Jr
Make America healthy again!
Some people still believe this is a free country
DO’NT WE HAVE ENOUGH WITH ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND IT’S EFECT? DO WE NEED MORE LEGAL DRUGS IN OUR SOC.?
Exactly. Legalize cannabis 21+ ONLY
Govt did this. They restricted and controlled license cutting out the average citizen of a multimillion dollar market. The ones that get a license are done so Obliterator for businesses that have govt members owning a stake in the business. It’s a circle jerk.
Let people grow their own. I wouldn’t trust illegal pot. I wouldn’t even trust legal growers. You don’t know what they’re spraying on them but these aren’t hippy organic farmers with flowers in their hair.