Large plantations, automated and in the hands of a few companies, perhaps multinationals. This is how the economist Santiago Niño Becerra (Barcelona, 1951) imagines the panorama after a hypothetical legalization of the cultivation of marijuana. It would generate employment, yes, but wage earners from the plantations in the hands of an oligopoly that would take control.
In an interview with Radio Granada, Niño remarks that the legalization of the crop would suppose important income for the Government for the payment of taxes – the VAT and other specific ones similar to those that are levied on tobacco and alcohol – but that it would not mean, at all In any case, wearing white the thousands of jobs that the marijuana sector now generates painted black.
“The rent, production, logistics, distribution, of marijuana in California is in the hands of a few companies and I think this would go this way”, predicts Niño, who adds that these companies would need “legal employees that are listed. but people who now carry out this activity and obtain an income from it would become wage earners, counting on them to get a job in these companies. “
“The issue has been on the streets for a long time and I think the time has come to establish this debate,” says Santiago Niño to open his mouth at the beginning of the interview.
Listen here to the interview with Santiago Niño Becerra in Hoy por Hoy Granada.
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