Trump and Dope

Ordinarily, Trump and Dope are not related things, but both passed in the same election here in California. So the Democrats can all smoke dope now that they've lost the election. The big upside of Trump is way more jobs than under Obama and what Hillary was planning, the even if she hasn't yet been charged with alleged crimes of treason and mishandling official state secrets, collusion to hide the mishandling, corruption, and bribery. She hasn't been charged yet, but after Trump is sworn in? I wouldn't wait long.

The thing about recreational dope is there's important local consequences.

1. Around 25-30% of my library patrons are into growing semi-legal dope. 
2. The new dope law means anybody can legally grow it without having to hide they are. This means all people who want it will be growing it. 
3. This shrinks the market for buying dope, lowering prices and thus money in the industry. 
4. Less money and less market means less the local jobs in dope are about to go away. 
5. Plantation dope in the lowlands will happen now. That means mechanization and even higher yields. 
6. Philip Morris was alleged since the 1980's to have dope plantations waiting for the day it was legal here. Now it is. 
7. Expect a HUGE surge of cheap dope in cigarette stores for over the counter sales. 
8. Dope can now be refined into honey oil legally and used in those e-cigs and sold there too. 
9. Dope seeds will probably be a major sales item at this point. And books on growing it will be big at the library where I work. 
10. Previously, you couldn't ask an employee who was high if they were high because it is illegal to inquire of an existing medical condition and medical dope was legal. It is also illegal to test one person for dope, and testing everyone is expensive. Business owners would either deal with doped up workers or fire them under another pretense. 
11. Locally, many workers were high while on the job. It was obvious, they stank, and you learned not to do business there because they screwed up every job. This drove business out of the local shops and businesses. 
12. Locally, dope inebriation causes more car crashes and fatalities than alcohol, according to the highway patrol. 
13. Statewide legal dope should cause even more crashes. Part of the problem with prosecuting dope inebriation (DUI) is the tests only reveal the user has had some in the last 3-4 weeks. Not in the last few hours. So proving inebriation at the time of a crash is a major technical challenge. Heavy users will share tips to avoid DUI prosecution for dope driving.  
14. Any business interested in quality control will avoid California since the population is high, or can't be proved otherwise. 
15. Taxes here are already really high. Taxes on businesses are punitive. This reduces the available jobs to chain stores and is pushing out lots of other businesses. 

Trump will help a lot of businesses but probably not here. Repealing Obamacare will help a lot, but people have gotten used to serious increases in poverty, and we've had 8 years of that, and 8 years of employers abusing their staffs by cutting hours and benefits. I doubt we'll see happy times from this around here. It will probably be a lot better most other places. Just not in California.