Legalization could slash the price of pot 80%

[ericlp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0708-pot-legalization-20100708,0,2661645.story

Wow 38 bucks an ounce! An ounce would last me like 6 months or more maybe.

 

[coreyb]

That's the price it should be. It's a freaking plant for god's sakes!

 

[JSt0rm]

wait but then how will organized crime make money?

 

[Moonbeam]

How can the cops make money confiscating drug purchased property?

Who is going to drink booze?

 

[JSt0rm]

How can the cops make money confiscating drug purchased property?

Who is going to drink booze?

good point. We need to save our law enforcement jobs and vote no to this.

 

[Patranus]

Except for the fact that the only way weed can be legalized is via action at the federal level.

Thank you "progressives"!!!

 

[JSt0rm]

Except for the fact that the only way weed can be legalized is via action at the federal level.

Thank you "progressives"!!!

thank god. our government law jobs are safe!

 

[LunarRay]

I vote that 'Pot' should be legalized. There is no question in my mind that 'Pot' is far less dangerous to folks than 'booze'.

However, the main reason is that it is a medicine! I does work! I have seen folks mitigate chronic pain, be able to eat, and reduce the effects of various disease...

We cannot keep this medicine from folks who can use it for their benefit. I don't much care about the folks who want to get high but for that purpose it is better than booze... imo.

 

[bfdd]

Except for the fact that the only way weed can be legalized is via action at the federal level.

Thank you "progressives"!!!

no dick. damn you're annoying how can you be all against this huge ass nanny state then be all for it when it comes to something that has nothing to do with you.


I hope all the lazy ass mother fuckers in California get off their asses and vote to legalize when it hits our ballots. If this doesn't pass and after the Prop 8 shit I'll of lost all hope in Californians.

 

[kylebisme]

However, the main reason is that it is a medicine!

Medicines are pills and other concoctions which corporations can patient and amass fortunes from, despite their huge lists of often nasty side-effects. On the other hand, while cannabis can treat many ailments without notable side-effects, it grows like weeds and hence rightly be considered medicine without pharmaceutical companies incurring huge losses. Besides, legalisation of cannabis would also undermine corporations in industries like paper, textiles, plastics and fuels which are heavily invested in less efficient sources for their products. That's why godless hippie communists want to make pot legal, they hate America.

 

[OCGuy]

But all of our white wimenz will be attacked by black men!

I know it is true, because I saw a US govt. propaganda movie showing it!

 

[coreyb]

I'm sure a lot of weed smokers don't want this to happen though. You could easily bring in another $20,000 a year with a reasonably sized grow.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Just semi legalize it, like it is done in the Netherlands. The price will drop enough, you can grow small amounts legally at home if you desire with out problems. Everybody happy. And the drug companies ? Screw them if they do not want to sell certain medicines because the medicines do not fit the business plan useless managers cocked up.

But as always : If you need marijuana or hash to function, accept that there is a problem that you must solve and understand first. Or you will look back 20 years later asking yourself, what happened to me...

And no this has not happened to me.

 

[bfdd]

I'm sure a lot of weed smokers don't want this to happen though. You could easily bring in another $20,000 a year with a reasonably sized grow.

waahhh, I'm growing because I'm sick of paying the prices these clinics sell at. i know how much i could make if i were to donate it to a clinic, but i would rather just have my own supply and not need to worry about getting it from somewhere else.


incase anyone hasn't read from my posts, I am a legal medical marijuana user in the state of California.

 

[William Gaatjes]

waahhh, I'm growing because I'm sick of paying the prices these clinics sell at. i know how much i could make if i were to donate it to a clinic, but i would rather just have my own supply and not need to worry about getting it from somewhere else.


incase anyone hasn't read from my posts, I am a legal medical marijuana user in the state of California.

You remind me of some people i know who have "medical" reasons to smoke weed and drink beer.

To be serious, but then again it can limit pain. But what is the cause of the pain if that is the case ?

 

[bfdd]

You remind me of some people i know who have "medical" reasons to smoke weed and drink beer.

To be serious, but then again it can limit pain. But what is the cause of the pain if that is the case ?

I get really bad nausea and eating makes me want to vomit.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I get really bad nausea and eating makes me want to vomit.

It is just an suggestion, but have you tried keeping a journal about what you eat and drink every day, amount of sleep and how bad the nausea becomes ?
Is there not a relationship between certain foods or spices and the nausea ?
Sounds like you have a problem with your stomach or some organ nearby.

Is there something wrong with your inner ears ? It sounds strange, but there has been cases where a minor inner ear problem causes nausea because the eye movement and the fluid in the inner ear do not comply. You should be able to notice it when sitting still and not moving your head as an decrease in nausea.

It may be strange what i am suggesting, but i am a firm believer that symptoms are an effect and not a cause. As such i wonder what is causing you nausea. But then again if you would find out the cause and cure it, with current US laws you would not be able to smoke weed again. ^_^

EDIT :

Have you ever been tested for this little critter :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori

It popped up in my mind because a colleague from my former work was often having nausea and stomach problems.
Took a while before doctors in general started to accept that this bacteria can be quite a menace.
It can survive in the acid of your stomach. This in contrast to popular believe that nothing can survive stomach acid.

 

[kylebisme]

To be serious, but then again it can limit pain.

Pain relief isn't even the half of it. Again, if you consider the therapeutic uses of cannabis with the pharmaceuticals used to treat such conditions and the side effects of both, it's obvious that legalisation of cannabis would take a massive chunk out of pharmapseudical industry profits.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Pain relief isn't even the half of it. Again, if you consider the therapeutic uses of cannabis with the pharmaceuticals used to treat such conditions and the side effects of both, it's obvious that legalisation of cannabis would take a massive chunk out of pharmapseudical industry profits.

Weed has to much effect to just be sold as an miracle cure. And as such should also not be promoted for every day use. All people i know who smoke on a regular basis for longer then 15 years have experienced certain negative side effects. But when compared to the side effects of certain medicines are i think negliable.
Nature is not perfect, you know.

 

[kylebisme]

I know I said nothing about miracle cures or perfection, but I also know you've an aversion to reality which keeps you from acknowledging what I actually do say.

 

[Moonbeam]

We spent out the ass for prisons and prison guard unions, a nasty business you know that deserves much gratitude in the form of renumeration, naturally, so we have to keep those prisons full. What sane people would build enough prisons to hold half the people and then only put a quarter of them in. Do you think we're on drugs or something?

 

[StageLeft]

Now granted I've never grown weed and I don't have an interest in consuming any, legal or not, but I have grown some vegetables before and I've seen some elaborate indoor growing operations online (the best being that marijuana cave). I have no idea why more people don't just grow weed in a closet or their basement. Once you get started it seems to me it would be basically impossible to get caught if it's for personal use and it would cost you nothing but the lights and a little bit of juice. It's when people start cranking it up with a room of the plants to sell that it really raises eyebrows at power companies or whatever.

 

[coreyb]

Very true, there are A LOT of people up here in Canada doing this.

 

[Moonbeam]

Weed has to much effect to just be sold as an miracle cure. And as such should also not be promoted for every day use. All people i know who smoke on a regular basis for longer then 15 years have experienced certain negative side effects. But when compared to the side effects of certain medicines are i think negliable.
Nature is not perfect, you know.

Too much effect according to whom, know nothing you? Clearly, the secondary smoke form being around folk who've use dope for 15 years has destroyed your capacity to think and left you in fantasy land. Folk use dope for any number of reasons and probably very few thinking it's a miracle cure. They notice they feel better when they do is probably the more likely story.

Let the scientists sort out the pros and the cons of marijuana use in our culture when it's legal and publish real data so people who want to make informed choices can do so. There may be millions of people who suffer needlessly because they won't touch grass as long as it is illegal.

 

[Moonbeam]

I would imagine the drug cartel lobbyists send their congressmen letters promising them some lead to the head if they vote to legalize. And the CIA probably does the same.