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Wow, my first contribution to the Veed Network! First, thank you all at the Veed team for setting up this fantastic platform for all of us, it is a missing piece of the cannabis industry out there.

I think cannabis has been used around the world for so many years, it really is social injustice to push down indigenous plants as "illegal". Particularly when it is clear that legalization (we are not opining on legalization itself yet) is resulting in and is leveraging the same classist system of economic warfare used by all imperialist powers to subdue and dominate their own populations and others'.

While the country has started having the much needed national conversation about social and economic justice, the first step should be to stop creating more barriers and problems in the way of a new, agriculture based industry. Less is more, and it is imperative to set standards for quality for the various products and services, and to educate consumers about these quality labeling.

Beyond this, it is clear the the health benefits will far outweigh other concerns, this will unfold in the coming years, as well as obvious comparison to alcohol which is far more harmful, and has a good model for regulation (even though it can be far simplified, and cannabis is an opportunity to do so).

Legalization: this is America, and the land of the free. As long as one is not harming others, any choice made by individuals for themselves is theirs to make alone.

Thanks for reading my 2 cents!