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He emphasizes how these corporations, unfamiliar with the culture or cannabis activism, aimed to monopolize by controlling cultivation and distribution—literally squeezing out small growers with high taxes and limited licenses. California's approach with multiple distribution licenses is praised as an effort to avoid cartel-like control, but the influence of lobbyists and corporate interests remains a concern. He argues that cannabis is inherently a non-corporate plant rooted in community and culture, making it almost obscene to see these big companies trying to commercialize and sanitize it.