"Maryland will probably get a second run at legalization if the Democrats win the gubernatorial election this year and if not then, probably 2020. The East Coast is heavily lobbied by Big Alcohal and Big Tobacco to restrict medical cannabis' influence unless they can control it, you see already see that with efforts by certain attorneys in New Jersey to restrict the number of licenses and who will get them.
Groups like Marijuana Policy Project run campaigns that call for open cannabis markets but behind closed doors heavily lobby to restrict license applications and issuance. MPP is heavily influenced by OSF/Soros and the Canadian company known as Tilray, which is actually controlled by Peter Thiel. That is why the medical programs in both Maryland and New Jersey were highly restricted to just a handful of growers and operators because they do not want competition.
The game is this cabal of deep state billionaires keep the majority of the market illegal and underground while using their connections and political influence to legalize their own operations to create de facto monopolies. This divides the marijuana movements in each state in two, those trying to create their entrepreneurial business and the deep state sell-outs. The sell-outs then snitch our the entrepreneurs to local PD, DEA, FBI and IRS to purge the market of competition while enjoying political protection from their owners. This is why it took so long for California to go legal because there was major political warfare between the local marijuana community and the deep state, in which the latter ultimately prevailed."
"Yeah NETA runs access in Massachusetts, and from I have heard have some kind of in with the Alcohol Lobby. Dispensaries are by far the shadiest and most disloyal arm of the cannabis business; they are always stabbing growers in the back, doing whatever they can to decrease their own cost while increasing markup and selling out their vendors whenever it gives them a political or market advantage. Smart growers typically deal with dispensaries through middlemen because they have been known to snitch on their own vendors to reduce competition. That way they can claim 'shortages' and increase prices.
I think Big Cannabis is a threat to young cannabis entrepreneurs. I have received all kinds of direct and indirect threats from these new corporate invaders, because in truth they don't want us there. They want monopoly and they want the small craft growers either crushed and subjugated, ran out of the business or locked up. They are utterly ruthless. The ironic part is their product is absolute shit compared to what the underground and craft market can provide. Part of this is because they don't hire from the old illegal market, they don't want to pay for knowledge. Another part is they don't care about Quality Control or Quality Assurance, they are in this to crank out inventory and make money; that is why medical incidents among patients are going up. The flowers from the big guys are often prematurely harvested, not fully flushed and exposed to BigAg pesticides. They usually grow from clone, not from seed, and sometimes a clone of a clone so the genetic quality and medicinal efficacy declines significantly. Same with the dab, the big guys aren't sifting all of their trim to produce 100's of kilos of slab a week, it takes too long, they just run bulk amounts through the machine as quickly as they can. That's why you hear about all of these failed lab tests."
"I should also explain that the big drive to stomp out small business in cannabis is mostly because Big Pharma is scared to death of being undermined by cannabis products. When Rick Simpson Oil came out as being effective against cancer, seizures and auto-immune disease they went into a panic. George Soros, Peter Thiel, the former Peter Lewis and George Zimmer formed the Drug Policy Alliance and Americans for Safe Access to figure out a way to penetrate the underground cannabis market in the East Coast and take it over for Big Pharma. Whats the point? Because if I am sick with cancer, Teva and GW Pharmacuetical, two of Soro's companies, want 10's of thousands of dollars for one prescription of sativex and epidolex, it takes only 3 to 4 grand to make an equivalent product in my garage. All I need is two pounds of pot, some essential oils and magnesium to create enough oil to stabilize my condition. Notice how the new commercial companies are moving away from the medical themes towards relaxation and recreational themes? There is a reason for that."