Cannabis: Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets

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• GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you polled the average high-street go-er, I’m not sure if they’d prefer another dodgy phone repair place, or a hydroponic farm.

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tanning salon seems a great fit. Whilst the beds aren’t in use, farm some weed?

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  • frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If only there existed other types of services. 🙄

    Honestly I have seval ideas that I would love to pursue but we don’t have any suitable vacant buildings. Almost everything is bought up for assisted/elderly care and left unoccupied. It definitely feels like a tax scam somewhere.

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• hand@lemmy.studio ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hmmmm.

  We’re losing out on money by keeping it illegal (taxation) and using taxpayer money trying to stop it?

  In our two party system both Cons and Labour don’t want sensible drug reform either… Somebody make it make sense?

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Worth remembering the UK is one of the worlds largest legal cannabis exporters.

    And a number of MPs are known to be part ofbthe industory.

    So legalising recreational in the UK would also make it easyier for small competitiltors to compete with those larger companies.

    Like much of the restricted product industory. The complexity of licencingbmakes it advantagouse to the wealthy.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is worse still. Gifting such a lucrative market to the criminal underground, funnels a lot of money to organized crime. Wouldn’t surprise if they are influencing to keep the status quo.

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• Laser@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reading the headline I thought of meth labs. But it’s about growing cannabis. Talk about priorities

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