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Legal Weed Thread.... updated 1/31/15

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FelixDeCat said:
The repercussions are clear. Legalization does not work. Once a Republican is sworn in 2017, we can finally clamp down on this nonsense. All we have to do is withhold billions in highway funds and other benefits. Then we confiscate the farms and incarcerate the users like never before!

Those states will step back in to line....or else.
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Lol this is great.


6/10 could be more credible
 
If it became legal here, I'd probably look into growing some as a side business. Don't know if I actually would do it, but I'd look into it at least. I have lot of room for it and it would be a fun little side project. 😛
 
Rakehellion said:
You understand racism isn't based on factual evidence or statistical data, right?
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You understand that the race card is the most played and worn out card of the deck when people don't get what they want, right?

Combine that with the victim mentality and ignoring personal responsibility and you get the recipe for all sorts of trouble. Hey, easier to blame some other person or group for your own troubles, right?
 
http://www.economist.com/news/busin...ing-high-times?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/hightimes

The disunited state of cannabis
High times

The American marijuana industry is maturing
Jan 17th 2015 | From the print edition


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As Colorado celebrated a year of cannabis legalisation, Founders Fund, a venture-capital firm with $2 billion in assets that backed Facebook, has announced an investment in Privateer Holdings, a marijuana outfit behind names such as Leafly and [Bob] Marley Natural. Four states and Washington, DC, have now legalised recreational weed. A further 21 allow medical consumption under differing restrictions. Legal recreational and medical sales amounted to $2.6 billion last year, most of them in California and Colorado. That is just 6% of the estimated $40 billion still going to criminals (over $200 billion a year is spent on tobacco and alcohol). Cannabis venture capital was a tiny $104m in 2014 and opportunities remain limited because of federal restrictions. Full legalisation is perhaps five to ten years away. But investors beware: when it comes, the price of weed may fall.
 
You can die from too much alcohol but you don't die from too much marijuana.

People fight when drunk, people eat Doritos when high.
 
TreVader said:
At least here in CA only bottom of the barrel stuff is grown outdoors. I'm talking <5$/g retail. Anything more than that is indoor. I don't know about Washington quality but there isn't any good reason their weed would be any more expensive.
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I was going by the "A big harvest of sun-grown marijuana from eastern Washington last fall flooded the market." in the OP, and perhaps incorrectly assumed this wasn't some sort of greenhouse with growlights. Other than that, I wouldn't know - I've never touched the stuff.
 
DrPizza said:
I was going by the "A big harvest of sun-grown marijuana from eastern Washington last fall flooded the market." in the OP, and perhaps incorrectly assumed this wasn't some sort of greenhouse with growlights. Other than that, I wouldn't know - I've never touched the stuff.
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It's pretty harmless.

I don't smoke it, I take these things called "Cheeba Chews". They are basically little caramels with 70mg THC.

I use it only when my neck injury is acting up, but if I didn't have to work and be responsible Id probably use it more. I think it will eventually become like cigarettes or alcohol.
 
I don't smoke it either, and I quit drinking over a decade ago. I suppose either is bad in excess, and fine if used in moderation. I personally don't think pot should be legal, but we're all entitled to our opinion.
 
bzb_Elder said:
I don't smoke it either, and I quit drinking over a decade ago. I suppose either is bad in excess, and fine if used in moderation. I personally don't think pot should be legal, but we're all entitled to our opinion.
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I've never used the stuff in my life; and at this point in my life, see no reason ever to use it. I like alcohol, but you'll never see me drink to the point of intoxication. However, between the two, marijuana and alcohol, I think there's a lot more reason for alcohol to be illegal than pot. Apparently, pot doesn't have anywhere near the debilitating effect on driving ability. You don't hear of potheads going out and smoking pot all night, then going home to beat their wives. You can't overdose on marijuana. We waste an obscene amount of money on drug enforcement for a drug that is relatively harmless. And, we create a very profitable criminal enterprise by keeping a very popular activity underground.
 
DrPizza said:
I've never used the stuff in my life; and at this point in my life, see no reason ever to use it. I like alcohol, but you'll never see me drink to the point of intoxication. However, between the two, marijuana and alcohol, I think there's a lot more reason for alcohol to be illegal than pot. Apparently, pot doesn't have anywhere near the debilitating effect on driving ability. You don't hear of potheads going out and smoking pot all night, then going home to beat their wives. You can't overdose on marijuana. We waste an obscene amount of money on drug enforcement for a drug that is relatively harmless. And, we create a very profitable criminal enterprise by keeping a very popular activity underground.
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DrPizza said:
I've never used the stuff in my life; and at this point in my life, see no reason ever to use it. I like alcohol, but you'll never see me drink to the point of intoxication. However, between the two, marijuana and alcohol, I think there's a lot more reason for alcohol to be illegal than pot. Apparently, pot doesn't have anywhere near the debilitating effect on driving ability. You don't hear of potheads going out and smoking pot all night, then going home to beat their wives. You can't overdose on marijuana. We waste an obscene amount of money on drug enforcement for a drug that is relatively harmless. And, we create a very profitable criminal enterprise by keeping a very popular activity underground.
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true, i think that the US would be much better if prohibition would have stayed in effect
 
DrPizza said:
between the two, marijuana and alcohol, I think there's a lot more reason for alcohol to be illegal than pot
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You're absolutely right. I think sometimes people (myself included) tend to stick with the stereotypes we learn as kids - pot was always illegal while I was growing up so it should be illegal now. But your point about alcohol is spot-on. It is amazingly damaging to the human body, yet it is omnipresent in our society. I wonder if it will someday become uncool, much as smoking cigarettes has these days.
 
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