Yeah, legalize it so it will cost more, taste worse, and be less potent. Government-operated coporations mass-producing a thin brown version of the Holy plant. Sounds delightful.
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Yeah, legalize it so it will cost more, taste worse, and be less potent. Government-operated coporations mass-producing a thin brown version of the Holy plant. Sounds delightful.
I'm sure that you could go to a specialty smoke shop and buy local growers Hydroponics or whatever... just like with Tobacco now.
why would mass production cause the price to rise/ and wat would stop u from buying your own seeds and having a massive growing operation in your hosue, it would be legal if marijuana is legalized
Once again the logic train leaves the station.
What is all this non-scense that if pot was legal, goverment run corps would charge more for less quality?
If all the great growers in this country could legally come out of the closet (pun intended) how great would thier weed be?? and how plentiful?
Plus, there would be much more grown by honest organic farmers who can grow under the sun and not have to charge outragious dollars to compensate for electric bills and the cost of growing out of sight of the law.
cottage industries are good for the economy... its a win/win situation.
Most likely there would be a tax.
Alcohol and tobacco are deadly, legal substances. You cannot compare marijuana to them. Marijuana is a natural plant that still grows wild in the united states, and it was made illegal not because of scientific facts or because it was killing people, but because Harry J. Anslinger hated mexicans. And he, throughout his lifetime, spreaded lies and hatrid for marijuana, and shaped how people still feel today about it today. If the government will let us smoke cigarettes and drink beer, (things that are proven to cause death), why can't the people who don't want to do that, smoke pot?
There are proven medicinal values from cannabis, and studies are continuing to be furthered.
Pills are expensive, and most of the time they do not work effectively. I have never been able to rely on presciption pain medication myself, because all it does is knock your ass out; pot doesn't do that, it gives me pain relief and an altered state of mind that I'm capable of still functioning in. Pills are highly addictive, so is alcohol, so is nicotine. Marijuana isn't. Smoking marijuana is a habit. These other things are addictions.
The state of California saved nearly $1 dollars from 1976-1985 by decriminalizing the personal possession of one ounce of marijuana. Taxpayers annually spend between $7.5 billion and $10 billion dollars arresting and prosecuting individuals for marijuana violations. Almost 90 percent of these arrests are for marijuana possession only.
The soft vs hard drug policy in the Netherlands is quite effective, and they save a lot of money by not targeting potheads for jailing.
I'm entitled to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and I would like to do this by smoking pot because I like to smoke it over anything else.
Tobacco causes cancer, alcohol damages your liver and kills your brain cells, marijuana grows in the soil and produces something that won't give you cancer or eliminate your brain cells and make you stupid. God gave it to us, man took it away.
Pride, you really don't know what the hell you're talking about and should probably tell your friend that pot isn't addictive and if he doesn't like it then he should stop buying it.
"The state of California saved nearly $1 dollars from 1976-1985..."
Wow, they saved a whole dollar? ;)
There are international treaties preventing the UK from "Legalising" cannabis.
However a de-criminalised approach would probably be best - like in the Netherlands.
I just got back from Amsterdam and I must admit that smoking a pure rolled 2 gram joint in front of the police was most entertaining.
But seriously, it would disenfranchise a large segment of the black market in the UK. Money which currently funds prostitution, further organised crime and guess what....
terrorism (I hope Tony Blair reads this :))
But we don't have a government that seems interested in that right now ;)
Yup.. im all about the financials.. legalize it.. free up some jail cells to put real criminals in.. and then tax the living shit out of it.. that way home growers still have the ball.. but marlboro can make packs of their already devised pot cigarettes so if you run dry you can stop by walmart and stock up.. then just take all that extra tax collected from pot smokers and pay off the national debt.. simple as 1. 2. 3.!
You know I agree with you except for with 2 things. Marijuana does have medicinal benefits. Of course there are potheads that say this just because they wanna get high, I admit, I'm one of 'em..but if this werent so then why would the government supply patients with marijuana joints? Did you know about this? They arent doing it for fun, marijuana really has benefits. Secondly marijuana has been used for thousands of years with no side effects or extreme health problem later down the line while yet we have pills that these doctors make that kill people each year. Harmless?? (thanks anti-pot commercials for that line). Secondly if marijuana was legalized we wouldnt have so many curious kids gettin fucked up or soft people gettin fucked over by having to go to these shady dealers to get a fuckin plant that was never meant to be in their hands. Marijuana should be sold by people like me, some one to care and love for it, not here for the money but to spread the love with paranoia-free customers. Leave the crack and meth to those dirty dealers. Marijuana is not suppose to be in that category if you ask me (yes I do take marijuana very seriously). So if you ask me I do believe marijuana should be legalized so innocent people like me dont have to worry about going to prison with hard-time criminals. The only thing I'm guilty for is breaking the law, If marijuana is really harmful then I'm not hurtin no-bo-de...but my bo-dee...Is that a crime? I havent stole, I havent killed, I havent broke any of commandments that God set in the Bible, infact I'm using one of the many plants that I believe God meant for us to use (look at my sig). Probably not to smoke, probably made to eat but I'm still consuming it. So America needs to stop with the bull shit.