the mockery is because it's an entirely narrowly targeted "upper class white people" type complaint framing the situation to not only sell to weak liberals but also promote her own company
the entire country, including California, exists as a legal cannabis retail desert under a longstanding unended
actual war of prohibition, it's merely on an cross-cutting whim of the feds that "legal" at one level cannabis retail exists as it does...
Raich is absolutely still law of the land despite the wishes of Justice Thomas (teehee)
and doubly so, California does not legally sell cannabis in anyway that I would recognize as "legal retail" considering it operates like a fucking control state in liquor retail not even the more enlightened control state in wholesale variety and while recreational usage has been decriminalized like many places since the 1970s, a medical marijuana regime even a "wink-wink" kind isn't legitimate legal retail and in this case California allows municipalities to control issuance of retail licenses, something that can only end in "cannabis deserts" due to the political costs involved (and doing it at the state level is not guaranteed to solve the "deserts" issue considering population distribution)
her smartest paragraph is this one, but is almost a perfect example of why we mock it:
The irony is that bans on legal cannabis end up propping up the illicit market. Without a legal option, users have little choice but to turn to the most convenient local means available, the illegal market, where businesses don’t comply with the quality control standards of the regulated market. And of course, illegal sales mean losses in tax revenue for the state.
but she proceeds to miss the forest for the trees to outline how her solution is not to deregulate and legalize marijuana, it is to tweak the regulatory regime in a way that works for her company which specializes in delivery, with retail as a secondary feature:
Communities that aren’t yet ready to license retail stores should welcome delivery businesses as a discreet and safe solution.