NEWS Marlboro to buy Cannabis Company

[MrOldBoy]

The thing is, whether we like it or not - some large corporations are going to be competing for the canna market because that's what they do. GE started off as a lightbulb company, Sony made tape recorders, etc. - business is about evolving or dying. Tobacco is dying so tobacco companies are trying to evolve and cannabis is an obvious venue for them.

What we need to do as the canna community isn't to bitch and complain about the inevitable entrance of big business into our culture. Instead we need to be in front of it offering guidance and pushing for high standards.

I'll always grow and never buy, but I'm realistic enough to realize that most people won't. I grow my own tomatoes and cucumbers and ocra too, but most people get theirs from a grocery store instead of tilling up their back yard.

I, for one welcome our new corporate overlords (and their lobbying dollars)

Couldn’t agree more, we need to embrace not resist change and use our influence to help shape the future ....

And yes some folks just are not good with plants ...... but let us home growers work at our craft and if we can grow better than commercial growers, so be it .....

Speaking of tomatoes- I grow my own and the kind I grow cannot be purchased in the stores - usta-could buy in the stores but that was over a century ago before they started mechanical harvesting ..... Rutger Tomatoes cannot be mechanically harvested, thus not in the store anymore ......

Same will happen with marijuana .... Anytime you “mono crop” a plant you are inviting pests and the big companies will be using pesticides to combat, not something I’m interested in consuming and they will use mechanical means to trim and rape the buds of their flavor and resins all in the name of profit.

Peace,
OB

 

[MrOldBoy]

Heck, we were talking about big tobacco taking it over back in 69. They may have a bit of a fight with big pharma now involved. They should have put their money into legal recreation use way back then

Ya right but that was before Nixon and War ion Drugs ..... all that late 1960 talk quickly faded with Nixon and then Reagan followed up in the 1980 era and here we are today.

 

[Archaic]

Just say NO