pitamandan

pitamandan t1_j0xpfqc wrote

Your idealist “NH would benefit, why don’t we?” Is both childish and obvious. Like I tell my 4yo, I would love to just “have” money. But unfortunately, it’s a bit more complicated.

Should we? Sure. Would it be awesome? Yes. Could we benefit? Hell yes.

BUT ARE WE GOING TO, AND DOES YOUR SINGULAR OPINION MATTER? FUCK NO IT DOES NOT.

I feel like I’m arguing with an entitled teenager. I get it, from your perspective, life would be so much cooler or accessible. Unfortunately, the adults have to work it all out before you can have your cookie.

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pitamandan t1_j0wcq35 wrote

So NH doesn’t have a “total control over alcohol”. Every store sells it, Gary’s liqueur in Portsmouth is one of my fave pickup spots. No one is advocating for “total control”.

We seem to be a very goal/task oriented state. When we do something, we do it with purpose, or not at all, but we also limit “chaos”. Ie saying “sure let everyone do whatever and we’ll deal with the fallout”. Lots of states have that, and if you’ve been to those states (I’m looking at you Massachusetts, Florida, and North Carolina), and it’s like a checkerboard of desirable/undesirable. Pot barn and vape shop, high end shopping, run down housing, millionaire condos.

NH, at least in my view, seems to prefer a more tempered approach to idealism. Like picture apple products. Are they first with everything? No. Do they execute well when a clear need, and value to it, exists? Yes.

My man, I would love to have a dispensary here. But for now, I’ll like our limitations to keep extreme stores to a minimum, and drive an extra 12 minutes to ME or MA for pot.

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pitamandan t1_j0vi4af wrote

.. the federal law is stopping them. What don’t you understand? NO states are selling it, only private companies within a state are.

You also can’t legally protect the money made from sales of federally illegal drugs. Google “pot banks”, they are private banks, that are illegally knowingly accepting money made from a federally illegal good. They take a margin to store this money and protect it. They don’t have FDIC backing, which is to say if someone robs that bank, or it goes out of business, the entity storing money within it does not have insurance of getting their money back.

Until the feds legalize it, no state can sell it, or finance it.

Then my personal opinion, being someone that totally supports the whole pot movement and hates that it’s illegal here.. I like that we’re holding out. For every pot store there are 5-10 more shitty vape/bong stores that are basically useless and primarily selling tobacco and vape juice, which is what a goddamn gas station can/should be doing. That retail space should be growing the town and culture, not housing the cheapest shittiest crap on the market. Once it’s legal federally (and cmon it will be eventually), it’ll be great to have it all centrally located near highways like we do with liqueur. Imagine a NH liqueur store with half of it being pot. It’ll be a weed-topia.

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