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

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FelixDeCat said:
Thats why we need to ban it again in those states. It is being perceived as harmless, yet people are drawing bad correlations and assuming that putting something in your mouth and setting on fire will not have an adverse effect on lung cells.
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But I'm not sure that it does have an adverse effect on lung cells. Smoke is an irritant, but then again so is the active chemical in hot sauce, and we all agree that hot sauce isn't destroying your body. An irritant doesn't necessarily mean any real damage is being caused. And it is very possible the mix of chemicals that make up MJ smoke could be fairly harmless. As I said, it appears to at least be less harmful than other substances that you can buy, so keeping it illegal on that basis doesn't make any sense.
 
piasabird said:
You can be a slave to alcohol, to illegal drugs and also to legal drugs like oxycotten. I don't know how to spell it so don't bother me about spelling.

Do you live to live your life with your friends or are you enslaved to drugs? Learn to live in reality and get a life.
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Who are you even talking to? You can also consume all those things and NOT be an addict.
 
Yes, prohibition is the answer.

We need to go back to more no-knock drug raids where they show up at the wrong house and shoot your dog and/or children.

We also need to fill up for-profit prisons with more non-violent offenders.

(That was sarcasm. Prohibition does not work, and first-year "growing pains" (heh) mean nothing.)
 
Ns1 said:
You can't pay with credit cards in Denver? Lol. I used to know distributors who took paypal
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Yeah, it's dumb and has created all kinds of issues like the dispensaries needing huge safes, and having to pay taxes in cash, etc...

A credit union for the industry is hoping to be setup, which helps the dispensaries with some of those issues. Consumer is still SOL I believe until VISA, MasterCard, etc are willing to facilitate the transaction though.
 
cbrunny said:
Legalizing pot has always been a terrible idea. All you need to enter the black market is dirt. Know where I can get any of that?
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Well except the guys with the guns on the corner who will kill you for coming onto their turf all you need is dirt.
 
FelixDeCat said:
Growers struggle with glut of legal pot in Washington state

And despite all the regulations and controls /taxes on sales in Washington State, heres your "black" market, right on Seattle Craigslist, all at untaxed black market prices.....delivered right to your door:
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https://seattle.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=marijuana&sort=rel

I'll be glad when we people wake up to the nonsense that this is and put a stop to it, again. 🙂
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Ok dad. I will never understand people wanting to control what others consume.

What you are seeing are the market fluctuations due to a new market. Next year the supply will tighten up as less growers will be in the market. It will take a couple of cycles for this to become normalized.
 
FelixDeCat said:
Thats why we need to ban it again in those states. It is being perceived as harmless, yet people are drawing bad correlations and assuming that putting something in your mouth and setting on fire will not have an adverse effect on lung cells.
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Since when the fuck is it the governments job to maintain MY lung cells?
 
FelixDeCat said:
Thats why we need to ban it again in those states. It is being perceived as harmless, yet people are drawing bad correlations and assuming that putting something in your mouth and setting on fire will not have an adverse effect on lung cells.
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Funny how we can look back at the 18th amendment and what the actual author had to say when it was repealed:

When the Eighteenth Amendment was passed I earnestly hoped - with a host of advocates of temperance - that it would be generally supported by public opinion and thus the day be hastened when the value to society of men with minds and bodies free from the undermining effects of alcohol would be generally realized. That this has not been the result, but rather that drinking has generally increased; that the speakeasy has replaced the saloon, not only unit for unit, but probably two-fold if not three-fold; that a vast array of lawbreakers has been recruited and financed on a colossal scale; that many of our best citizens, piqued at what they regarded as an infringement of their private rights, have openly and unabashedly disregarded the Eighteenth Amendment; that as an inevitable result respect for all law has been greatly lessened; that crime has increased to an unprecedented degree - I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe
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Just about every last word holds true for drug prohibition. More people use them, they are stronger, cheaper, more available, crime has insanely skyrocketed due to it, people aren't sure what they are getting and a general disrespect for the law and law enforcement.

Isn't it amazing how history repeats itself?
 
T9D said:
It is getting slightly confusing. BM usually means brick and mortar. But it can also mean Black Market. So when talking about weed that is now sold basically in stores and on a black market it's starting to get hard to follow who means what.
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The B&M stores had a BM on pricing which the BM was able to operate in.
 
OP,

Care to comment on your daily dependence on pain medication? I know you've had some significant percentage of your body surgically removed due to a lifetime of eating cheeseburgers and fried bologna. I'm curious how you reference your physical dependence on pain medication behind the world of marijuana--the best (and by far the safest) pain med there is outside of morphine.
 
Although not a fan I'll point out, what I read elsewhere, that the Seattle Sea Hawks have gone to the Super Bowl every year since they legalized Marijuana up there.
 
I've said before and I'll say again, I couldn't care less if weed was legal, OR kept illegal. I never have and never will smoke anything.
 
zinfamous said:
OP,

Care to comment on your daily dependence on pain medication? I know you've had some significant percentage of your body surgically removed due to a lifetime of eating cheeseburgers and fried bologna. I'm curious how you reference your physical dependence on pain medication behind the world of marijuana--the best (and by far the safest) pain med there is outside of morphine.
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He just posts this shit because it gets him attention.
 
SparkyJJO said:
I've said before and I'll say again, I couldn't care less if weed was legal, OR kept illegal. I never have and never will smoke anything.
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Dude... brownies! I also make an excellent spaghetti sauce that will not only fill you up but also have you cruising at 40,000 feet. Toss in some brownies afterward if you are looking to cruise at SR-71 altitudes.

No inhaling necessary. :thumbsup:
 
"Every grower I know has got surplus inventory and they're concerned about it," said Scott Masengill, who has sold half of the 280 pounds he harvested from his pot farm in central Washington. "I don't know anybody getting rich."
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Maaaan... what a douche!
 
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