Discussions have been ongoing for years now on whether or not the district of Redwood City should allow cannabis sales and cultivation. After California state law changed in regards to recreational cannabis use, other jurisdictions started re-examining their own rules.
This meant that various council groups in certain places would be the ones to decide what sort of changes might be permitted, who could do business etc.
In Redwood City for example, the council there will be deciding on changes to the market like whether or not there should be more than 6 dispensaries in the entire city, or if those dispensaries should be allowed to engage in delivery services, and other changes.
Broad legislation like that which changed recreational sales in the state might ask the average person what their decision is on the matter, but for most of the rules surrounding the market it will be a select few who get to determine what takes place. And that, to me, is not what freedom looks like.
That looks like a breeding ground for failure and corruption, when only a select few are the elite ones who get to decide just how much violence to initiate against peaceful people living in their community, over a plant.
Those select few get to decide how many people get to fulfill their dream of working in the cannabis industry or opening their own cannabis shop, rather than allowing people in the market to peacefully decide. This hardly seems reasonable or just, but it's still the way things are done.
The state refuses to recognize the natural right of people to grow, sell, and use on their own, without a central group forcing themselves into the mix.
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