The day is coming, and all things being equal, will probably arrive when all fifty states are made legal under the writ of Congress or the Court. There is a window of time before the toilers in the field of Marijuana Corporate Life stop being dreamers and are replaced by the stolid competence of number crunches, lawyers, and futures investors. At present, due to its ambiguous nature, Green Business is still on the frontier of compelling, before it becomes sheerly a matter for the accountants. Weed is the kind of enterprise that modern Fortune 500 CEO-types claim they love-the kind of business that Silicon Valley tycoons swear by-a dangerous, on-the-edge-of-safe affair which has media cachet and piratical air to it. If you’ve been paying attention, there is green in the green. They took the de-stressor drug and set it on a treadmill.Īnd while the weed business is good, it is still that, a business. The point of cannabis was to set free, and tune in, not to buy in and set prices. Marijuana will become another instance of a liberatory impulse turning into a commodified symbol. What happens to weed when it clashes against Victorian capitalism? One will swallow the other, and my bet is on the market winning. Cannabis is not a panacea, and for some people it is not even a pleasure, but in the weird world of psychostimulants and brain-twizzlers, it has a special place. Even if you don’t smoke it, or don’t buy into the entire subculture surrounding it, marijuana is a Different Matter than all the other dullers, buzzers, uppers, downers, and the stupefying cosmos of mind-altering catalysts we consume on a regular basis here in America.
It could just be a matter of generational coincidence-the wandering Boomers picked up marijuana as an avant garde substance at the right time-but freethinking angles cohere neatly around cannabis practice, and cannabis society.
Is this a good thing? After all, there’s a reason weed is married to so many iconoclastic notions. Weed will become an economic keystone of this hamlet. The town’s current residents, CNBC tells us, “number fewer than two dozen and one of its major sources of revenue is the California Lottery tickets the general store sells to people who cross the state line from Nevada because they can’t buy them there.”
Its plans are to transform the old Gold Rush town into what it calls “an energy-independent, cannabis-friendly hospitality destination.”Įnergy-independent is code for “solar panels” and perhaps even their natural beauty partner, “windmills.” The buyers have “reached out” to “edibles manufacturers” and other stalwarts of the weed industry, to see if they are interested in relocating. an Old West-style hotel, a handful of houses, an RV park and a coffee shop. The details were as follows:Īmerican Green Inc.
It should also be stressed that Las Vegas has been the United States’ own most hallucinogenic metropolis for a good thousand years now.Īccording to CNBC, the name Weed is taken: “it belongs to an old mill town in Northern California.” But that’s okay: the concept is free as a bird, and can crash wherever it likes. The news that legal hallucinogenics now possess an entire village is ancient hat weed already owns so many towns in so many subtle ways that there is nothing new under the grow lamp. announced Thursday that it was buying all 80 acres of Nipton, CA, which makes this the first time that weed dealers busted the police … and it comes across as late news, something we knew was coming but are still sort of shocked by.