Trade/ Economy

I decided to focus my blog posts on trade and economics. Trade goes on everywhere, and is a part of everyone's life. This education that we are all receiving is, in it's purest, a trade transaction. You give the school money, and they give you an education. But what makes trade exciting? For me it comes down to one main thing, money. The person who has the most money, is usually the controling power in the trade market. The excitement comes when the controling power is challenged finacially by an oposition. Just such an opposition was born in California with the name Proposition 215. California’s seminal medical marijuana law allows individuals who have been approved by a doctor to purchase and use marijuana for medical purposes. This opened up a new market for marijuana dispensories in the state. Proposition 215 discorages owners of these dispensories from turning a profit, but does not make it illegal for individuals to make money off these dispensories. While it is not illegal to make money off the distribution of medical marijuana, distributors are receiving alot of scrutiny from local law enforcment, including rades of dispensories and homes of legal entreprenuers involved in the trade. This raises a rethorical question of why would these legitimate buisness owners be subjected to these raids? The rethorical answer is because they are despensing a drug that is illegal to possess for anying other than medical use. But the real answer is the dymanics of the legal and illegal trade of drugs.
There are two main markets for drugs in America, the legal market and the illegal market. Big Pharmisudical Companies control the legal market, and gangs control the illegal market. While Gangs are ruthless and feared by many people, Pharmisudical companies seem to receive a less harsh wrap despite their power. Gangs control the illegal trade with guns and violence, creating a monopoly on the market. Pharmisudical companies use lobbiest and polititians as their form of medium to control the legal market. See when medical marijuana was made legal in california it transended from the illegal market to the legal market. Now that people could legally use marijuana to help cure their illness they didnt need medication produced by the Pharmisudical companies so they took a hit. I can only asume that the drug rades on a legal and legitiment businesses are a result of pressure put on local law enforcement and politicians by the pharmisudical companies. And the discouragement of marijuana distribution writen in proposition 215 was also probably a result of lobbying done by the Pharmisudical companies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/us/09bcharborside.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1