Californians, Steve Green reports, are smoking less weed. That is to say, GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED WEED. Turns out gettin’ around the revenuers is even more lucrative than making moonshine and a heck of a lot easier, too.
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June 23, 2025
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Loved the punch line Steve!
Speaking of “bullet with your name on it” does anyone remember a fairly cheesy, but enjoyable 80s flick called “Runaway”. It starred Tom Selleck and Kirstie Alley and one of my all time favorite 80s movie hot girls, Cynthia Rhodes.
The bad guy was Gene Simmons.
He was a tech guy who had created bullets that were like guided missiles and he would put someone’s name on it and it would track that guy.
Selleck was the cop chasing him.
Fun in that 80s new, high tech way.
This reminds me of the two or three stories each year I would read while in college that a fire broke out in someone’s closet because the clothes got too close to the grow lamps.
It appears that politicians in Cornyafella,(and others in west coast states), New Pork (and others in east coast states). and a few in between, are really stupid. Not to exclude the almost 50% of stupids in the rest of America.
The last paragraph of that story was cut. It reported at rumors that the Newsom administration was in negotiations with the Sinaloa Cartel, Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, Juárez Cartel, Tijuana Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas, La Familia Cartel and a number of smaller cartels in their effort to corner the market. Also rumors of legalizing heroin, meth, fentanyl, LSD, etc. in order to control also the minds of drug users.
So the Leftist politicians in Kalifornia are betraying the Leftist dope smokers in Kalifornia who voted for them so that pot would be legalized … Sounds like a Win-Win to me. Sadly this is what happens whenever Leftists, and some Conservatives too, get political power. Taxing things like anything else in the economy has some basic rules for success. Just like you don’t price your product outside what the market will bear, you don’t tax it outside of what the market will bear either. Not if you want a solid tax revenue stream. In a Free Enterprise system the trick… Read more »
Ronette is teaching marketing at the local HS (was never the plan when she went to college, just happened) and I go in and talk to here classes each year.
I love the looks I get when I ask them how much they are willing to pay for X. Then I take a long S curve to derive the cost of X. Then they look surprised that at the beginning the price is less than the cost for a new product. If you’re lucky it is the same for a few years until you scale up.
Yeah, market forces aren’t all that hard to grasp but you have to make the effort to understand them. Simple market economics aren’t the sole domain of esoteric intellectuals but the rules aren’t particularly intuitive until you make the effort to familiarize yourself with them. It’s something you have to learn and I think it’s great you and Ronette are teaching the next generation this stuff. Many, many years ago I had a friend who managed movie theaters*. I was surprised when he told me that the total cost of a large Coca-Cola at the concessions counter was less than… Read more »
Clearly the next step will be a bail out and subsidies of the now broke legal pot producers.
Did anyone watch Tulsa King? Second seasons is just getting started. Thought they had a great take on “legalized” weed and how the various organized crime moves in on it.
Highly recommend especially if you are a fan of either Stallone or Neal McDonough.
Yeah, I like Tulsa King and would recommend also. Though I’m no big fan of Stallone who is his own fan club, he plays the part of a betrayed, washed up mobster on a comeback tour well. Neal McDonough is a great guy IRL but he does seem to pull down parts for some pretty shady characters. Which he plays well too.
Neal has been on Mike Rowe’s podcast a couple of times. The first time, about a year ago, he talked about how he essentially got fired and blackballed for not doing love scenes. Was out of work for a while and was basically broke, Then he got Band of Brothers and latched on to being the heavy.
Now he is working with Angel Studios producing his own work. And in his latest film, which is supposed to be very good, he gets the girl. Because the actress is his wife.
Good stuff.
He has some great Stallone stories and others.
Second season wrapped up a few weeks ago. And it was excellent =8^)
Watched it. Neal is coming back for Season 3. Not a spoiler since it is part of the promotional work, he is going to be the Governor.
Let’s also not forget another side effect of legalizing weed – wherever this happens the downtown areas smell like a Grateful Dead & Snoop Dogg concert, even at 7:00 in the morning. Compare this to alcohol – I can’t walk down the street with a beer in hand, and Sister Babe keeps nagging me that if she catches me getting drunk in the morning one more time she’s going to leave my arse. I’m kidding, of course, but I’d have a lot less problem with weed legalization if its public consumption were regulated the same way alcohol is. Part of… Read more »
Instead of alcohol, could go with the more similar cigarette restrictions of “not within so many feet of an entrance/exit” (if that isn’t already part of the law) and if it is, stop treating them like gun laws and actually enforce them… assuming the pot heads are not so far gone they forget to pay the tickets. Then stick them in a cell for a day after so many unpaid tickets.
perfect analogy