Scared of Legalization.

[Blitzed]

The other day i was having a conversation about legalization. He was all for it and so was I, but the other day i started to think. Sure it will be great, but i have the feeling large corpirations might get ahold of the market. Adding unnatural substances to it to make it burn slow, or a more quantity, or addicting qualities. Im not to sure if my theory is plausible, just wanted to hear your input and ideas in.

Sorry for the short, post just rushing to finish befor work.

[ncnavguy]

Sure its possible and plausible, but if legalized there will be specialty shops and "organic growers", Probably all the new smokers, the one's that only started smoking because it was legal and popular, will get in line at walmart to buy their first pack of Marbolo Golds. But the prexisting stoners, the afficanados will always go local and quality rather than the premanfactured shyte that would flood the market.

[BoilerUp]

If weed is legalized there is no doubt in my mind that I would grow my own. That way you know what you are getting, and it is much cheaper.

[Sir Bliss]

If weed is legalized there is no doubt in my mind that I would grow my own. That way you know what you are getting, and it is much cheaper.

Mhm. Exactly. Same here.

You make an interesting point, man. I've never really looked at it that way. I suppose we'll see...if it ever happens. Ha.

[dejayou30]

People bring up this argument all the time, but like someone up there said, there will still be a demand for the highest quality herb. If someone is producing shitty product, they aren't going to be in business long. Also, its a plant that grows just like any other plant, so you just have to put some in the dirt outside in the summer and viola!

[graph]

Why wouldn't it just be like Amsterdam? We have liquor stores, why not pot shops?

[budsmoker only]

ya i would most def. grow the weed that id be smoking....

then i would know its good and there isnt any stupid shit thrown in there that doesnt belong....

that would be weird if it was legal like that and you could just buy a pack of joints, like you would cigs....

[Sir Bliss]

that would be weird if it was legal like that and you could just buy a pack of joints, like you would cigs....

Weird...yes. It would. But unbelievably convenient/amazing...also yes!

[Matt the Funk]

Weed and tabacco aren't the same at all.....weed has medically uses, different strains, many distinct characteristics. It's very easy to grow outdoors in certain areas(its a weed)....anyways I actually dont know much about the tabacco plant. I forgot what else I was gonna say, but yeah....I doubt it would become like the tabacco industry.

[Stellar]

They go on and on about this "super weed" and why if we consider legalization, we also have to consider that weed is [insert whatever made up number] times as strong as it was in [insert whatever convenient day/month/year] And they forget to mention tobacco strain like rustica can poinson you very quickly just by handling the leaves. We're talking full blown nicotine poisoning where you actually start to hallucinate just from coming into hand contact with the leaves for as short a time as 5 minutes depending on how well-grown the plant was. That's perfectly leagal, though, you can even buy the seeds at specialty sites and shops all around the world.

Its easy for them to debunk legalization with that kind of handling. They can say well alcohol has always been alcohol throughout our society and we've outlawed home distillery in america to prevent "super alcohol" which also worries me that, even in the face of legalization, you can bet anyone's life that you feel like betting that growing your own will be illeagal and yes it will end up in the hands of Phillip Morris USA and not Johnny America's. Unless a campaign like overgrow the government actually makes pot literally fall from the sky, the government will never be scared enough of our ability to produce our own quantities to think about legalization. Sometimes people forget that legalization is one of the last steps towards total government control. Its pretty counter-intuitive, so it slips by easily.

The only way the government will ever legalize it is if they become afraid of America's ability to make it themselves.

[4twentE]

I still wouldn't smoke anything but homegrown. Sure I'd buy stock in the tobacco companies cause you're right; they'd take over the market. Then I'd get rich and be able to afford to grow more of my own.

[Blitzed]

Its easy for them to debunk legalization with that kind of handling. They can say well alcohol has always been alcohol throughout our society and we've outlawed home distillery in america to prevent "super alcohol" which also worries me that, even in the face of legalization, you can bet anyone's life that you feel like betting that growing your own will be illeagal and yes it will end up in the hands of Phillip Morris USA and not Johnny America's.

Just like what he said, im worried that laws would be enforced to not allow you to home grow your own supply. Like i said in the first post i was rushed because i had to go to work in like 2 minutes.

[shoi]

i actually thot abt that too but they wouldnt becuase people would just grow their own then, the people would be the control

[Blitzed]

But America really runs on large coorporations. And if you dont believe they have sway with our government id like to see why you believe that. But the government would want to keep the coorporations somewhat happy, and i could see them passing laws to stop home growing. Just so they could make more money. Sure there would still be medicinal growers, but would more than likely be growing in a pharmacutical setting. And i cant even imagine the possibilty of the potentness and what it could really do in the medical world. So I am still all for legalization just for the medicinal purposes. And i mean hell you can always still grow, its illegal now and doesnt stop anyone.

[2600HERTZ]

Growing is the only way, legal or not.

[shoi]

then people would grow it illegally like the do now, sure some would buy it but im sure most would rather not, it would just create an underground market and im sure after time the corporations would see that lots of people buy alot of weed with out it being addictive, the only problem would be if they used fertilizers taht were bad... but amsterdam doesnt have that problem and so i dont see why it couldnt be the same here, atleast for a while.... id imagine that there would be tons of small ones tho i guess they could be bought out.... tho id also gues that the type of people who start a cannabis business would also be the same type of people who dont like corporations and so wouldnt give into them... besides and im not saying it would be easy, even if corporations have some influence on the government it is ultimatly the people who put someone in office and senators need that more than money, assuming enough people cared, and id guess if everyone who smoked voted wed get somewhere


in the end u dont have anything to lose by haveing made legal, if they do do that then its not as if u have to smoke it, it will just be how it is now so dont bother worrying just hope

[ghosty]

the large tobacco companies already have names reserved for thier brand name joints if weed ever does become legalized

[weedmaster]

People bring up this argument all the time, but like someone up there said, there will still be a demand for the highest quality herb. If someone is producing shitty product, they aren't going to be in business long. Also, its a plant that grows just like any other plant, so you just have to put some in the dirt outside in the summer and viola!

i wish it was just a case of throw some seeds in and hey big bud plants.
if they did legalize it the goverment would put a big tax on it, greedy bastards.

[rainbows.rsexy]

growing aint hard

especially beginner strains like, big bud