Business

Already you hear about a culture of marijuana. Long ago a series of articles for youth use alluding to that sweet drug, look worldwide t-shirts with slogans like the LEGALIZE IT, caps with the corrido symbol a leaf from cannabis sativa, keychains with the reason, necklaces and finally both so up to the album cover of one of the albums of Carlos Vives has recorded the figurine. Just these few examples give us to understand how big is already the business of marijuana! Not the business of the llaveritos but the huge business of the production, distribution and consumption of yerba. Let’s start in the Netherlands. Beyond marijuana is legalized, is marketed in the Coffee Shop and consumed openly, including by the police officers.

Before, wore it in Thailand, Colombia, Jamaica or the Lebanon. Now the Dutch, despite the Government ban on planting in large expanses, produce much more than a hundred tonnes per year, which represents a turnover of several billion pesos, at consumer prices. Many boutiques, called beyond Grow Shops were mounted (Greenpoint, Positive Grow, Interpolm, are some of the most famous), specialized in providing everything necessary for the cultivation of drugs, including subscription to a voluminous newspaper specialized in the subject, called essence. What is more: a man named Ben Dronkers founded the Museum of hashish, located in the red light district and which is visited annually by eighty thousand people a year, because of $4 entry per head! But the man was not there, because it has a real economic group that moves in the business of the marimba between four and five million dollars a year, also, controlling the Sensi Seed Bank, today the largest producer of seed from the Netherlands whose annual market represents more or less another twenty million dollars and whose investment in scientific research for the improvement of the quality of the cannabis reaches four hundred thousand dollars annually.