@Bluestang Supply and demand. If there is no/low demand, then they have to lower the price (if they want to stay in business). And considering their operating costs would be much lower than the costs of someone doing the same thing in a black market, I feel pretty confident that's exactly what would happen. Furthermore, that's exactly what history says will happen. Also, I'm pretty sure there was something written into this law that would have allowed medical customers to buy at cost.
This has nothing to do with emotions. This has to do with pain. That's why I didn't sound emotional. However, I should be emotional. My state just told me I don't matter.
Also, I didn't say people in Ohio don't want it legalized. I said they
do want it legalized. But that doesn't matter now, because Ohioans consciously went to the polls and said OVERWHELMINGLY that they want it
not to be legalized.
They didn't say they don't want it to be legalized
today. They said they want it
not to be legalized. Big difference.
Business is entirely about making money. People with money do not invest in markets that don't exist; markets that the people have said very clearly they do not want to exist.
You know the market exists, just as I know the market exists. However, the voters said that market does not exist, and anyone with money would be making a very bad investment by trying to create such a market.
Even though I would be a legitimate medical consumer, I wanted this to happen for the sake of everyone, not just myself or other legitimate medical consumers. But it's very clear that those people don't want the same thing for me. At least not enough to do what they knew was the right thing. Consequently, I hope they legalize it for medicinal purposes only. Which wouldn't surprise me, considering I saw poll results indicating that 90% of Ohio voters think it should be legalized for medical purposes.
