Whether it be the cannabis market, the food truck market, or any other, the government is a tool of violence that gets used to keep competition out.

By keeping competition out it reduces options for the people, it takes away their freedom and their right to make a choice about which product or service they might like to support. Instead, there is a central authority that is making that decision for them.

Our safety is the reason that our rights get violated in this way. But is it really about safety? Because an individual isn't safe when their rights can be trampled on regardless of what they have to say about it.

The government arbitrarily dictates how many businesses in a certain market might be permitted to do business. They also determine where you can do business and when you can do business. For the cannabis market it is no different.

Limited # Of American Dreams

They aren't giving out an unlimited amount of licenses for growing and producing, getting into the market etc.

Not everyone who wants to pursue business in a certain market is afforded that chance. And it is likely that those with more financial backing are going to be more likely to achieve the few spots that there are, because they can endure the wait and afford the many fees etc. But the ones that you might say need it the most, are the ones who will have their lives significantly changed for the better if they could finally establish their own small business for themselves. If they could pursue that freedom and that right to work in the industry of their choice, if their skills and service provide what the people are looking for.

Let the people who are buying the goods or receiving the services decide if it is good enough. Let the people establish their own voluntarily screening process, taking the power back for themselves to simply make a choice.

Right now in Arkansas, some of those pot producers have gotten together, that have been allowed to do business, and are allegedly looking to sue in an effort to get the government to cancel new licenses that they've given out to others. They say that the state issued too many and went against their own authority in licensing growers, this they fear will reduce the value of their own operations.

Don't Resort to Violence

No good business should rest on violence, via the government, in order to stay afloat. Serving the people a good product and doing good business with others should be fuel enough to keep a good company going.

This isn't the only time this has happened, it has taken place within the cannabis market and others. People looking to use violence in order to keep others down, keep others in poverty and from pursuing their own business goals and dreams. That is the result they fuel when they look to unjustly keep others out, despite whatever random edicts there might be when the state cherry-picked how many should be allowed to do business.

Many amazing products and services have never made it to market and never will because there is too much violence to endure to get there, to test out the idea. Everyone should be given a fair chance, not a select few. And the market, the people buying the product, should be the ones to determine who succeeds and who fails.

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