THE LOOMING SHADOW OF AUTHORITY

LEGALISATION OF RECREATIONAL REGULATED MARIJUANA IS ONLY ONE DAY AWAY. THE HANDS OF AUTHORITY ARE REACHING OUT WITH RULES AND RESTRICTIONS AND THE HANDS OF INDUSTRY AND STOCK PROMOTERS REACH OUT FOR MONEY.

I think: How much are the poor smokers going to have to pay all those greedy hands for what?

I feel the choking hands vicariously. I empathise with people who will have to fear smoking at home. I think about the many dispensary supplier growers and what will happen to their ability to pay mortgages or rent and Hydro bills and they do not know when their product will be supplanted by the giant industrial growers. Half of dispensary staff will have to be laid off as prepackaged product replaces the View, Smell and See and weigh it out before or at the time of purchase. 

Condominium boards and Landlords will rule about smoking Marijuana in Suites. If  joints or  the hash I like stinks, and smoking is conducted in a building or on a balcony then other residents will be able to complain and smoking cannot proceed . Vaporizers should be able to be almost odorless and they might be the answer to multi-dwelling accommodations. I would think that smoking buildings, hopefully with social smoking lounges, will develop. I certainly have not ever been bothered as I smelled someone lighting up Marijuana or Hashish. I am curious, what is that?

I do not know if you realize that Marijuana Growers were very fearful at times in the past as accusations of being organized crime and spreading mold and hiding exaggerated earnings  from the tax man and the urging on of the public to inform terrorized them. Get busted and have everything seized including the children. One grower said to me " It cost me $80,000. when I was busted several times." This prospect to many persons would be terrifying and insurmountable. 

BY-LAW OFFICERS WERE USED TO GET POLICE ON TO PRIVATE PROPERTY WITHOUT A WARRANT TO FIND OR SMELL SOMETHING.

I READ IN THE NEWSPAPER HERE IN SOOKE BC AN ARTICLE THAT ENCOURAGED THE CALLING OF BY-LAW AND POLICE NEEDLESSLY.  I THINK THAT IT BECAME A GAME OR A POWER TRIP  TO SEND POLICE OR BY-LAW OFFICERS WITH A POLICE ESCORT ON BOGUS RAIDS HOPING TO GET SOME SORT OF BUST GOING. 

I WAS SUBJECTED TO NUMEROUS INSTANCES OF THIS SWATTING OR WHATEVER. I WAS NOT BUSTED FOR ANYTHING BUT I SURELY WAS TERRORIZED AND I HAVE COLLAPSED MANY TIMES. 

NOW THE DISPENSARIES, THE OWNERS AND STAFF ARE TO BE TARGETS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FINES AND IMPRISONMENT. I WONDER HOW THEY WILL FEEL ABOUT A FAKE 911 CALL OR BY-LAW COMPLAINT FABRICATION OR SOMEONE SAYING THEY HATED POLICE OR WOMEN?