Drug Dealers Launch Campaign to Encourage Customers to Stick With Them
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Street-level drug dealers in Washington and Colorado are up in arms over the takeover of the marijuana market by large-scale corporations. Many dealers feel as though the sudden legalization swept the financial rug from under their feet.
Having to compete with the widespread legal sale of marijuana is not something most dealers were prepared to compete with, and a number of dealers have taken to social networking site Reddit to air their grievances. One dealer stated that someone “with a bunch of seed money might open a 7-11 weed store and shut me down”.
Dealers launched a campaign against “Big Marijuana” that features many slogans and brandings to ensure that people continue to support local growers and dealers. One member of the website offered the suggestions of “Call your product ‘organic weed’” and “launch a smear campaign against ‘Big Cannabis’”. After Amendment 64 was passed in Colorado, it became legal for adults to grow, consume, and possess certain amounts of marijuana. The law took effect immediately but it might be a full year before cannabis stores will begin springing up across the state.
Other dealers see this as an opportunity to provide specialized services and expertise during this “green rush.” “People still want to know where the smoke is coming from, delivery options, 24 hours of operation, anonymity and most importantly IOU’s which big businesses won’t cater to” the Reddit user stated. I’ve often wondered how the United States would change as marijuana slowly crept towards being a fully legalized substance. Only time will tell how this will affect dealer-user relations.
Which merchant will you utilize: Local or Corporate?
Malcolm Morrow, a Your Black World Network contributor, is a senior, criminal justice major at The University of Southern Miss.
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Drug wars: And crime could go either way….people too happy slouched in weed clouds or people unhappy with competition amongst themselves. Corps are too large to be tickled by some in the hood drug dealers. Those places are experimental for bigwigs. Soon some suit will go in and introduce a lil something extra to dealers if they sell that SPECIAL weed…folk ain’t learning to change a think….GREED will get em!
Crack...I mean Weed Era Gone Wrong
February 3, 2013 at 4:04 pm
It shows how poorly you will do without an education!
Someone with just a little education would have known the legalization was on the ballot, then they would have known that it pass, and a intelligent person would have saved some of the money he or she made from the sale of the drugs to become legal!
Let the uninformed “all of them” fade from existence!
James Johnson
February 3, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Decriminalizing some drugs like weed will make the case load lighter in courts and save taxpayers in the long run. Smoking is bad on hearts and lungs but if alcohol is legal ( and we know how many folksier from DD accidents) then why not weed? Freedom of choice, hell guns are legal right? Maat
Imhotep
February 3, 2013 at 8:24 pm
I can’t believe what I’m reading. These thugs would do all kinds of unscrupulous things, including recruiting children, to traffic their wares and now they want to somehow make themselves appear legit through promotion. The only, one good thing that will come of legalization of marijuana would mean that these lowlifes will be driven back under the rocks from which they’ve come.
wanda
February 4, 2013 at 12:50 am
You figure if you got enough sense to air out your complaints, why wouldn’t you take that same brain power and start a legitimate business instead of standing around watching people ruin their lives while you get rich because 9 times out of 10 you are selling way more than just weed.
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February 7, 2013 at 11:31 am
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A cigarette has over 400 ingredients but when fire hits it . It the produces 4k chemicals. That would ne the same as smoking Weed.
william
February 17, 2013 at 1:13 pm
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