Friday, June 6, 2014

Hook the Kids!

So a free market problem:  to mix THC and coffee and juices where marijuana is legal is to make a drink kids would like, even if not legal for kids to drink.    As I kid I never had trouble getting booze anytime I wanted it, so saying dope is regulated is delusional.

We don't want to pack so much THC into every one of our drinks that it's unpleasant, especially for people that are just getting into marijuana," he says.
The coffee-infused drinks will come in plain and with cream and sugar. "Legal" will also feature three juice-based sparkling sodas: Rainier Cherry, Lemon Ginger and Pomegranate. Each is made with fresh juices and a different strain of cannabis for differing effects.

So the bottle looks like a soft drink, it is named "Legal" and it is designed not to get beginners too
#~(t=+ up to draw attention.  (Coffee and THC together?  Shouldn't it be named "internal contradiction"?)

This is an aspect of capitalism and it's handmaidens the regulators people miss: because people believe there is regulation, the bad guys can do what they want.  Selling cigarettes to kids went on for 100 years while it was regulated, and reregulated, and now it is subsidized.  So someone can come along and put a product in a regulated market obviously targeting minors and the rest of us say nothing.  As the bottle says, it's Legal.  People walk by the bottled dope for kids to get a loaf of bread, and just accept it.  Today with corporate fascism, you can complain to the kid behind the counter all you want, the owners of the minimart chain could care less.

Without any of this regulation, the people behind this would be subject to pitch perfect ostracization to the extent they interact with communities concerned.  In anarchy, you are the cop.  Back when we had economic freedom, adults who did not want this stuff where kids could get it easy would simply let the shop owner know, and being owned locally, the owner would weight the feedback with his inventory selection.  People see the bottled dope for kids and say directly to the owner "I'll stop buying my bread here..."

What is on the shelves in the market really ought to be a consensus between the shopkeepers and customers, with free association.  Now we have corporate fascism, beloved by big government devotees, in which whoever is in power can dictate what is on the shelves locally.  Libido dominandi!

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