Marijuana retailers in Connecticut say a dearth of licensed growers in the state’s fledgling legal pot industry has left them with a shortage of product to sell.
The supply problem has appeared after slow retail growth in neighboring New York last year left growers there struggling with the opposite: an excess of supply.
It would seem both problems could easily be solved by shipping product a few miles over state lines. But that would violate federal drug laws. So each state that legalizes marijuana is left with its own process for licensing growers and sellers, and trying to create a balance between the two within state borders.
Benjamin Zachs, the chief operating officer of Fine Fettle, which operates five dispensaries in Connecticut, said he worries that low supply in stores is leading some customers back to their former, illegal dealers, and across state lines where he cannot go to get product.
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ironically, the reason the feds have the power in the first place is Becuase of the state lines.
the bastardization of the commerce clause is what allows the feds to shit all over us
the claim was that even if someone generates and consumes a product in a single state, it affects other states commerce… somehow… so the feds can literally just regulate whatever they want if it exists at all by extending this nonsense argument
so the feds can literally just regulate whatever they want if it exists at all by extending this nonsense argument
Not to worry, the Supreme Court is on the case! They found that while the commerce clause does allow the feds to persecute homegrown medical marijuana users, they can’t give domestic abuse victims the ability to sue their abusers in federal court with it, because that would just be absurd government overreach.
Simple Libtard, women are no longer property after your Feminism, so they can’t be regulated as so. /s
You can always count on the SC to come to the right decision in the end.
as an aside, i’m really enjoying how cannabis is starting to be discussed as a commodity like wheat or strawberries.
