Cannabis is the number one drug of choice for those in Michigan, and they just recently unveiled their legal recreational market that started this month.

Their legal market finally launched after a year of lawmakers deciding that they wanted to push forward officially with the plan.

Now, cannabis is legal for recreational use but it's still going to be tricky to find it.

Starting on the first day of the legal market launching, where people can go into stores and buy recreational products, it's reported that legal recreational cannabis was only available in one city in Michigan.

So far there are less than 10 stores in the Michigan region that have been approved for licenses to sell, only 6 of them were successful so far in obtaining that permission.

Obviously, having dispensaries in only one region is not going to be enough to satisfy the need.

For some who have been eager to access the shop to access medicine, they have even been asking about making reservations to do it.

Along with the official launch of their crony cannabis market, we can also expect similar results that we've seen in other places, like low quality, short supply, long lines, and high prices.

It might seem like a lot of progress has been made but it's still a mess in several ways, it's a market that's strangled with unnecessary and nonsensical restrictions. The market rules are serving the interest of the state, more than the benefit of the people who need to access cannabis for medicinal purposes; which could arguably apply to all. The government has taken to centrally planning the cannabis market on numerous occasion and has repeatedly failed to deliver even basic quality to meet patient needs.

Imagine if the state made the same sort of mess when it came to pizza restaurants, or our grocery stores. Imagine, if we had to suffer with the same results in that circumstance. All of us needing to travel to one city to get our groceries. To be fair, cannabis is just as important as food and other necessities, for those who need it for medicinal purposes and the more that the government gets involved with unnecessary restrictions and control, then the less freedom we are going to experience in this industry. As a result, the patient, the customer, is the one who suffers.

The people, by voting with their dollars on what they want to buy and don't want to buy, should be the ones to determine what ultimately gets produced, or how many dispensaries there should be. The government has sabotaged the cannabis industry, moving to put control of production and distribution etc, into their own hands and that hasn't helped to improve quality, reduce price, or broaden access.

In a number of ways it has had the opposite effect, even prompted the closure of many favorite cannabis dispensaries in various places. And we see that failure in Michigan now, with the few dispensaries that are open to meet that huge demand in the region. We can see from their tax profits over the years, as legalization has spread, that they have effectively gained more control over the industry, but that doesn't mean that they are doing a good job of things.

People are still arrested for cannabis across the United States, thousands remain behind bars for victimless crimes, unlicensed farms are still raided, and too many resources still being spent on pursuing the drug war against marijuana. Michigan is just one more example.

When trying to determine what people might need in their lives, it is private entrepreneurs who are best able to respond to that call and appropriately meet the demand.

Do you trust the government to be able to anticipate and respond accurately to your needs? They cannot even balance a budget or put an end to a self-perpetuating and bankrupt cycle of war and debt. It's no wonder that they fail miserably when it comes to rolling out their legal cannabis market.

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