Sign of the times: New York has a new government agency: the "OCM." Can u guess?

Let's start with the assumption that you're a good person--and if you're reading this, that's a safe bet.  In that case you have no idea how utterly fucked the biden regime and Democrat-ruled shithole states are.  So here's example number infinity:

Like many other Democrat-ruled states, New York legalized marijuana.  Fair enough.  And it then set up a huge bureaucracy to license--and tax--pot shops.  That bureaucracy is the state "Office of Cannabis Management" (OCM).

Say, wonder how many people this small empire employs, eh?  What's its budget?  Tens of millions per year?  You bet.  And good luck getting a straight answer.

Now: because the State has a huge vested interest in reaping millions in taxes from the thousands of licensed pot-selling businesses in the state, it wants to reassure consumers that any rumors you may have heard about pot being laced with fentanyl are, like *totally bogus,* dude!

So a pot-head website called High Times says the agency just released a short paper titled “Cannabis and Fentanyl: Facts and Unknowns,” which it claims will "demystify the facts and myths" that fentanyl may be contaminating pot.

See, rumors beez goin' round dat pure, totally regulated, harmless weed beez laced wif fentanyl.  State bureaucrats in the OCM--again, the official state Office of Cannibis Management!--want you to be totally reassured that pot from state-licensed store is NOT dangerous, cuz duh OCM inspects all dem licensed sellers so yew don' gotta worry about dat IF dey buys duh pot from duh State, eh?

The bureaucrats at the OCM said there are not yet any reliable methods for testing for the presence of fentanyl on cannabis flowers. Dey admit that you can test for fentanyl in stuff like “heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, and pressed pills,” dey claims dey ain't no way to test for fentanyl in pot.

Oh wait...dey din' zackly say dat.  Dey sed ain't no way to test it on duh "cannibis flower."  But do pipo smoke duh flower?  Nah, dey smoke duh ground-up flower.  Wanna bet you can't detect fentanyl in dat?

So here come duh Word from duh OCM: “There have been zero verified incidents of fentanyl ‘contamination’ in cannabis. [BUT] There is no guarantee that any UNregulated cannabis product is free from contaminants or harmful ingredients.”

Didja get that?

If you didn't, the OCM explains that weed you buy on "the unregulated market may contain contaminants."

In case you still didn't get it, the OCM ends the report by recommending that you only buy pot from licensed (i.e. taxed) sellers.  

Now, for those who've never run a business and don't know jack about it (including taxes): the State only licenses fixed stores--so-called "brick-and-mortar" stores that they can inspect and fine for any violation of the innumerable state laws.  Having an actual store costs a *huge* amount.  Same for paying to fill out all the reports and pay taxes to the State.

So who can sell pot for less: illegal sellers, or state-licensed sellers?

So yeah, the state will get tax revenue from licensed pot shops.  But the unlicensed market will thrive due to the ability to sell at far lower prices.

Meanwhile I'd be *stunned* if the head of the "Office of Cannibis Management" is being paid less than $150,000 a year--and isn't a Democrat, and isn't related to either the corrupt Kathy Hochul or the equally corrupt head of the state senate.  One of the two, for sure.

And what can you count on seeing next, eh?  Sure: big-ass billboards, paid for by the OCM, touting the faaaabulous benefits of buying your weed from state-licensed stores.  So just like the Lottery:  billboards everywhere pushing people to buy weed.

Starting to get it yet?

Source.

https://hightimes.com/news/new-york-cannabis-office-releases-fact-sheet-to-battle-misinformation-about-weed-fentanyl/