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<blockquote data-quote="Flynn" data-source="post: 780273" data-attributes="member: 537">There's no doubt marijuana is coming to your state of Virginia if the bill passed. You know as well as I do that there are &quot;players&quot; behind the scenes that are going to make an obscene amount of money with the cannabis market.I know for a full blooded fact that one I502 (my state code for legalized weed) owner who bought a license from the Marijuana Liquor Control Board for 1 million dollars made 2.6 million dollars in first year profits. And that's the net, not the gross because he probably made closer to 7 million but with specialized taxes and requirements for digital security surveillance along with paying additional fees/bribes/grease/permits to the city, his profit margin shrunk because the pot business has many hands in the &quot;pot&quot; (no pun intended) getting rich off the ideas and sweat off others.Why &quot;cautious optimism?&quot; Sure people will be shocked at first but after 6 months people won't even notice the novelty anymore just like here. We here in WA see dispensaries kinda like Starbucks, they're on every damn block.Also, I'm sure one of the biggest arguments is the &quot;crime&quot; that comes with &quot;evil places like that.&quot; Sure, there have been robberies, because all of these places are a cash only business, so you can imagine how much money is available at any given time which is why they're mostly robbed before closing for obvious reasons.&nbsp; But there hasn't been an uptick in crime. I mean we have more bank robberies than weed store robberies. I think more people were killed by a gun last year versus pot shop holdups. Hell, I think Seattle alone had more Fentanyl and drunk driving deaths than mary jane stick'em ups.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flynn, post: 780273, member: 537"] There's no doubt marijuana is coming to your state of Virginia if the bill passed. You know as well as I do that there are "players" behind the scenes that are going to make an obscene amount of money with the cannabis market. I know for a full blooded fact that one I502 (my state code for legalized weed) owner who bought a license from the Marijuana Liquor Control Board for 1 million dollars made 2.6 million dollars in first year profits. And that's the net, not the gross because he probably made closer to 7 million but with specialized taxes and requirements for digital security surveillance along with paying additional fees/bribes/grease/permits to the city, his profit margin shrunk because the pot business has many hands in the "pot" (no pun intended) getting rich off the ideas and sweat off others. Why "cautious optimism?" Sure people will be shocked at first but after 6 months people won't even notice the novelty anymore just like here. We here in WA see dispensaries kinda like Starbucks, they're on every damn block. Also, I'm sure one of the biggest arguments is the "crime" that comes with "evil places like that." Sure, there have been robberies, because all of these places are a cash only business, so you can imagine how much money is available at any given time which is why they're mostly robbed before closing for obvious reasons. But there hasn't been an uptick in crime. I mean we have more bank robberies than weed store robberies. I think more people were killed by a gun last year versus pot shop holdups. Hell, I think Seattle alone had more Fentanyl and drunk driving deaths than mary jane stick'em ups. [/QUOTE]

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