WHO THE F*#K ARE YOU PEOPLE?

Cannabis News World

Nov 30

WHO THE F*#K ARE YOU PEOPLE?
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Hi. My name is Patrick Maravelias and I would like to take this opportunity to say as loudly as I can that I, like countless others, have risked my life, my freedom, my reputation, and my livelihood for the sake of being able to smoke and grow cannabis. I grew up just outside the Emerald Triangle and I've spent the better part of the last 10 years working on grows, trimming, making hash rosin, growing for myself, and everything in between. I've been robbed, threatened, extorted, and nearly killed more times than I can remember. Not ONCE during that time did I ever see any of you pocket-protector-wearing, rule-following weirdos in those hills risking life and limb with the rest of us. I really need to get this off my chest because this bush league shit has gone too far. A multibillion-dollar industry existed for 60+ years in the shadows because YOU sorry fuckers, or your parents for that matter, insisted that it remain there. Your friends didn't go to prison for growing a plant, ours did. You didn't have to risk multiple felony charges every time you got in your car, we did. A lot of growers still do for that matter. Weed has been legal in California since 2018 and I can't even smoke a joint in my backyard without overhearing my neighbor tell her children that we're disgusting. All that hard work, all the high risk for minimal reward, all the helicopters coming in to terrorize actual children in the middle of the night for DECADES was all for nothing because you people swooped in with your war machines (Excel spreadsheets) and left the victims of the drug war out to starve. Still to this day people in the triangle who don't even grow weed have helicopters…