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Re:A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and ... by mahogany on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:26PM (#29664781)
Can you expand on this a bit more? I've never heard about this. Are you saying when I go down to my local dispensary that it's owned by China? Or that the local bud is not actually local?
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Re:A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and ... by FPGAhacker on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:23PM (#29667191)
It all depends. I knew a grower in Oregon. They got into growing to provide for chronic pain sufferers (frequently fibromyalgia) since it is more difficult to get prescription pain medication in the US than marijuana.
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Re:A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and ... by stareblinkstare on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:03PM (#29665207)
A large portion of the grow ops are owned by Chinese groups. This is "common knowledge" in circles where people want to grow weed as a business, at scale, and scope out their competitors. This is their competition. The small local growers are not a competition anymore than your mom and pop business is competition to Amazon.

People find this surprising, but they've never stopped to ask themselves where did all that weed and infrastructure to grow it suddenly spring up from the moment it was legalized.

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Re:A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and ... by say_it_as_it_is on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:47PM (#29667381)
What are your thoughts on TikTok having more web traffic in 2021 than Google or Facebook?
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Re:A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and ... by Karsteski on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:31AM (#29673084)
What's wrong with a large portion of the grow ops being owned by Chinese people in the US?
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