Cannabusiness Madness
Food Chain Radio Show #1187
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
The Sheer Madness of Cannabusiness!
Guest: Jim Coffis, Co-Founder and Deputy Director of Green Trade Santa Cruz
In 1936 a movie directed by Louis Gasnier hit the silver screen entitled “Reefer Madness.” The story followed three drug dealers, as they lured innocent teenagers into becoming addicted to reefer cigarettes – with wild parties featuring jazz music.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – The Sheer Madness of Cannabusiness! Can reefer madness be turned into a sustainable business?
One year later, 1937, reefer was prohibited, and “Reefer Madness” became a cult movie classic that, over the years, led many innocent teenagers into lighting up reefer cigarettes.
Eight decades later, we-the-people are working our way out of the blue haze of reefer smoke to legalize the plant that has been with us since the Garden of Eden. We now call it cannabis, which is the plant’s botanical name.
But, for one reason or another, we have yet to get rid of the madness part of reefer madness. Take, for one example, the plant’s legal status:
Cannabis is a Class One narcotic in the United States of America, and is therefore prohibited. But, cannabis is legal in some of the nation’s states where it is used medicinally, but not recreationally. In other states, it can be used both as a medicine and as a recreation. Yet, in other states it is still prohibited narcotic.
In some counties and cities where cannabis has been made legal, one may grow the plant indoors, but not outdoors; in other counties one may grow indoors and outdoors; and yet in other counties one may not grow the plant at all.
You get the idea. The business of cannabis is still ripe with madness, and that leads us to ask:
Leave a comment below: Can reefer madness be turned into a sustainable business?
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