GeneralMarijuana.com Calls for America to Learn from General Motors Bankruptcy and Think Seriously About the Costs of Marijuana Prohibition

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June 1, 2009

GeneralMarijuana.com, a center for a group of legal cannabis-business oriented websites, is calling for Americans to learn from the General Motors bankruptcy and think seriously about the real costs of cannabis prohibition.

Justin Hartfield, the managing partner at GeneralMarijuana.com, noted that most of the problems facing the world economy today resulted from a combination of bad cost accounting and even worse risk assessment. The same hard truths apply to the war on cannabis, which has been a social and economic disaster. Absurdly, almost no one seemed to notice until recently, because we have been conditioned by irresponsible journalism to think of the whole subject as a joke. Well, 20 million arrests are not funny, Dude!

Hartfield emphasized that legalizing cannabis should not been seen as a solution for the current economic crisis in California or elsewhere, because it simply will not happen soon enough to generate significant tax revenues.

However, if we can think beyond today’s headlines, we can see that cannabis has an important role to play in many areas, when free enterprise is indeed free to develop it.

We have learned about the medical value of cannabis because it has been used illegally by patients who defied both the law and the medical establishments. In his seminal work, Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine, Dr. Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School predicted that the full medical potential of cannabis could not be realized until it is completely legalized.

We have learned about the potential for industrial hemp from other countries, but American agriculture, which otherwise leads the world, has been denied permission to grow a plant that was grown by Washington and Jefferson.

We have learned from the Dutch experience of tolerating retail sales of cannabis that there are real economic and social benefits from separating marijuana from the hard drug markets. Dutch “coffee shops” have almost no problems comparable to those caused by bars, and they generate hundreds of millions in tax revenues from tourism.

If General Motors was the icon of the old American economy, GeneralMarijuana.com wants to be the model for the next phase of America’s growth. Our old industrial base inevitably declined as the rest of the world offered lower cost manufacturing, but America’s knowledge-based industries have shown the way forward. GeneralMarijuana.com offers guidance to entrepreneurs who understand the potential of a wide variety of LEGAL cannabis-oriented businesses.

Visit our sites online starting at GeneralMarijuana.com and look for us at the THC Expo

In the meantime, what’s good for General Marijuana really is good for the USA.

Contact info:

23600 El Toro Rd, Ste D-281, Lake Forest, CA 92630
Phone: 949.394.4410 Email: hartjr@gmail.com

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Assets:

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Website design skills.

Existing Internet traffic to promote business.

Internet marketing skills.

Conventional marketing skills.

Connections for sources of art.

Connections in cannabis world for sales and promotion.

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