A Field Manual for the True Believer.
An inversion in the spirit of Dr. Strangelove: confronting hard truths head-on by following bad logic to its inevitable conclusion.
Every year, the same parade of boardroom lifers, policy priests, donor-approved experts, and cannabis industry elites shuffle onto stages across California like it’s a loyalty program they can’t quit. And they all deliver the same breathless speech for the umpteenth time:
What can we do to save the cannabis industry?
Save it?
Brother, have you looked around? This thing is coughing up dust. It’s limping through the desert with a knife in its back, and a state tax bill duct-taped to its chest. “Saving it” is the wrong question now. That ship sailed, hit an iceberg, and sank.
If we’re being honest—brutally, spiritually honest, no incense or LinkedIn platitudes—the better question is:
How do we kill it?How do we put it out of its misery, Old Yeller–style?
Quick, efficient, and merciful.
Call it an act of charity. Because we love cannabis too much to stand there nodding politely while it chokes under the dead weight of its own bureaucratic bullshit.
Sometimes you skip the rebuild. You burn the mother down and let the rot finish collapsing so you can finally see the ground underneath. Sometimes collapse is the only clear-eyed option left on the table.
So here it is: the blueprint. The field manual.The seven-step recipe for a clean, elegant kill.
And the good news? We’re already halfway through the steps. We’re making great fucking progress. Really. Let’s pat our leadership gently on the head for a job exceptionally well done.
The system followed the plan to the letter.
Step 1: Bleed It Dry
If the goal is total annihilation, taxation is …
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Author: Lucas Indrikovs / High Times
