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I will be watching. I am posting this in this section, because this is where the discussion should be. This is all about politics, and I for one am shocked that NGC is doing this show?:wtf:
Marijuana Sellers Thriving With ??White Rhino,?? ??Wonder Woman??
Review by Dave Shiflett
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Here??s some holiday cheer: At least one U.S. industry is not only booming but avoids government intervention like the plague. When these folks need a bailout they call their lawyers, not their lobbyists.
??Marijuana Nation,? which airs tomorrow on National Geographic Channel at 10 p.m. New York time, is an intriguing look at the U.S. marijuana business, estimated to turn a tidy $65 billion annual profit despite an often perilous sales environment.
Anchored by Lisa Ling, former co-host of ??The View,? this hour-long show presents enough market stats to make an analyst salivate.
Marijuana, first used as an intoxicant in China some 5,000 years ago, is now the most widely used illegal substance in the world, according to Ling. About 200 million people use pot in one form or another and the market is growing steadily, with 2 million Americans projected to try it for the first time this year.
They??re smoking some powerful weed. In the 1960s most marijuana contained 3-4 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) -- the substance that makes you high. That??s like near beer next to today??s cannabis, which can boast concentrations of over 20 percent.
Ling, whose waist-length hair and slim figure make her look like a Grateful Dead twirler, spends much of the program in California, where 22 million marijuana plants are estimated to have been harvested in 2006. That represents a tenfold increase over 15 years ago. Pot is far more profitable than the state??s wine industry, according to the show.
Medical Use
California is also benefiting from sales of medical marijuana, which brought an estimated $3 million in tax revenue to Oakland in 2003. Ling points out that a prescription isn??t all that hard to come by. One stoner on the program says he needs weed because he broke his finger several years ago.
The first anti-pot laws were passed in Texas in 1914 in response to toking among immigrant workers. By 1937 the drug was illegal throughout the U.S. and federal law still puts it in the same category as heroin.
Ling dons a helmet and fatigues to join a bust deep inside California??s Sequoia National Forest, where she rappels from a helicopter like a special-ops warrior. Public land is popular with pot farmers; in 2007 more than 250,000 plants were seized in this forest alone.
Yet these efforts seem futile. Law-enforcement officials say growers often plant five plots, assuming two will be seized by police and/or ??pot pirates? while animals will eat the equivalent of another. That leaves two plots that can produce millions in profits.
Hothouses
Other entrepreneurs have taken operations indoors, turning their homes into hothouses where three to four annual harvests are possible. Florida, the show says, is the capital of the indoor trade.
The program also looks at spinoff businesses, including an Internet seed catalogue that offers brands such as White Rhino, Wonder Woman and Haze. Bongs as long as bazookas, and one that looks like an octopus, are also available to aficionados.
There are a few humorous touches, including a worker at a pot dispensary wearing a ??DARE To Keep Kids Off Drugs? T-shirt. Ling also lists negative side effects, ranging from memory loss to depression and abnormal heart rate. But she also reminds viewers that marijuana is a blessing to some cancer patients and may help combat osteoporosis.
Last year, 800,000 Americans were arrested on pot charges, 90 percent for possession. In Virginia, where George Washington grew hemp, two plants can get you up to 30 years in prison.
Now that??s really dopey.
(Dave Shiflett is a critic for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)
Just an article about the show. Tomorrow night, I will be vaped and watching.:jointsmile:
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My listings show it on Tuesday 12/2. Sounds interesting I'm watching thanx.
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Why do you refer to marijuana smokers as stoners? Do you call every one who takes an alcoholic drink drunks?
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seriously, I didn't write the article.
stoner!
lol
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Lets see if they succeed in doing the topic justice. It's NatGeo, so I'm hopeful
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Lets see if they succeed in doing the topic justice. It's NatGeo, so I'm hopeful
Exactly! That's what I thought! "It's National GeofuckingGraphic! This has got to be good."
We'll see, I am interested in how the political angle is presented.
Empowered as the left feels right now, I would not be surprised to start hearing some clamor about Obama and his promise to them. However, from what I've seen so far, I think he is going the other way.
His AG appointment is not a good sign.
Ultimately though, no one is going to be eligible for that appointment that would also treat cannabis just like tobacco and alcohol. Just doesn't happen. Only time will tell, until then, I am not holding my breath, I'll hold a hit though.:jointsmile:
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Good, I'm glad someone posted something about this special on TV. I will definitely be watching it to see how they portray one of Earth's best natural medicines.
It'll probably just be another unbiased waste of time... a top expert that says it's dangerous VS. a top expert that says it's terrible. It's up to the viewer to make up their own mind, bla bla..... why can't they just give it to us like it really is. It IS good. Always has been.
Why don't they just make a documentary based on The Emperor Wears No Clothes and be done with all the insanity.
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That was probably about as good as could have been hoped for.
Interesting that it comes in a bloc of programming with shows about heroin and meth.
That doesn't make me too happy, but I believe the show was pretty fair.
That lady looked high a couple of different times. LOL
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dangit i missed it. But the site says another viewing will come on the 6th at 6pm central
Oooo a Saturday too. Ill def be watching it blazed
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Did ya'll catch the part about how England will be cracking down on pot after Jan. 1?
Does that mean no more SeedBoutique etc.? YIKES!
That Lucy did look stoned, especially when she was hanging around Marc Emory! Did you see that Canada guy's growhouse........drool.......drool.......?? WOW.
I liked that they ended it with that Jewish Scientist dude telling everyone Pot is good.
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ugh, I missed it again!!!!
Anyone know where i can see/get it?
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It's on right now! Also today at 8 pm CST and 11pm CST
:)
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website says it airs tonight at 9 again, and twice this week as well. no worries you will see it
unless of course you're like me and stuck with canadian national geographic...all you'd ever want to know about bears.....:(
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I think they did a great job limiting bias.
DEA Agent:"We are not the ones who make the laws, we are just here to enforce them." Any time i hear law enforcement employees sounding off with such garbage i ask; if you guys are just here to enforce the laws, why is it you do not pull over every person who goes even 1 mph over the speed limit. Watch their argument shift from "here to enforce" to "they are not the same"...
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I think they did a great job limiting bias.
DEA Agent:"We are not the ones who make the laws, we are just here to enforce them." Any time i hear law enforcement employees sounding off with such garbage i ask; if you guys are just here to enforce the laws, why is it you do not pull over every person who goes even 1 mph over the speed limit. Watch their argument shift from "here to enforce" to "they are not the same"...
Yes they did do an awesome job limiting Bias. I was deffenitely digging that tub of cannabutter the guy brought out at the big canadian grow op. If any of you get cannabis culture, a month or 2 ago MArc did an article about the same growhouse operation, I am going to look through my magazines and see if I can find it.
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does anyone know if this will be airing again soon?
Peace
CMAN :rasta:
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December 13th 3pm
Just click the link in the first post and it shows on the web site
I missed it again lol. Im such a failure right now.
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It took me 2 times to watch the episode in its entirety, but I must say I was fairly impressed.
