California vote to legalize pot scares Humboldt
• Manteca Bulletin (h/t Tyger)The worries in the land where San Francisco comes across as a
conservative bastion are simple. Legalize pot and it will send the
price of Humboldt County’s top cash crop spiraling downward. And when
that happens, the fear is that it will lay waste to the entire economy
of the region that will make the collapse of the lumber industry seem
like good times.
1 Comments in Response to California vote to legalize pot scares Humboldt
During alcohol prohibition, low-level associates of Capone’s crime organization made $200 a day running bootlegged booze in their communities and elsewhere, a lot of money during the Depression. When prohibition ended, those criminals were forced to get “real jobs” paying .30 cents an hour. Subsequently one needed only to look at the many businesses in cities that suddenly closed to determine which businesses relied on selling illegal booze to survive. Presently