The topic "TRUTH" got me thinking

Someone said pot is totally natural unlike cig's where the companies put a massive amount of other chemicals to get you addicted. So I started thinking, if weed were legal, not just decriminalized, and you could go to a store and purchase a pack of Joints or Blunts, would the big companies start putting additives that would make weed as bad as tobacco? I just seems to me complete legalization may not be a good thing. I would rather give my money to my local dealer than some greedy company looking out for their own intrest. As is, it is possible to get some laced with a hardcore drug without your knowing, but honestly I prefer my chances with a dealer. The odds are I never will, but hand it over to American companies and it will prob become as big a problem as tobacco.

By the way, I am a tobacco smoker, and can't stand Philip Morris and the rest. Once my life settles down I bit, i plan on quiting, I don't like giving greedy assholes my money.

Uhhh correct me if I'm wrong but the addictive element of tobacco is nicotine which is naturally occuring in the tobacco..

yeah, i think you are right, but than what is the reason for adding all the other things to it?

JaggedEdge, I often have the same worry, but then I remember that you can still buy tobacco tht is relatively additive free, and so it stands to reason that if marijuana were legalized, then companies would step up to meet the demand for organic herb. Sure, it would probably cost a bit more, but it'd be worth it, and still probably cheaper than under prohibition.

I heard somewhere that they add all those other chemicals to reduce tar mostly.... It doesn't make much sense. Thats why I smoke rolling tobacco..

I often think that.. i also think they would sell it with less thc so you would have to smoke more of the product to get the effect in turn making the companies more money in return.

Personally I think they would have all the same varieties as now... They probably wouldn't reduce the potency.. I think they would just charge more for high quality. I doubt they would only offer low potency to make us smoke more and thus get more money when they could just charge more money anyway for better weed. I think the spread would be pretty much the same as now.

tobacco companies were putting additives in their products to help get you addicted faster which is why they were taken to court. and about weed being legal, i doubt companies would add a bunch of shit because people like their weed natural. so competition would ensure that prices stay low and quality be high.

i plan on growing my own when i move in with my 2 friends. and if it was legal, shit i'd grow plants everywhere. but some people are too retarded or lazy to grow so that's why companies would profit from them.

they would probably make it illegal to grow

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Originally Posted by indicastoner

why would they make it legal to smoke but not grow, although, if it becomes legal theres probly only gonna be a sertant amount that you can possess

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so they can tax the shit out of it.

on another note if it was legalized and you could carry pounds of it, i'd make a fire, throw a tent over it, and throw a pound of weed on there and clam bake the living shit out of it :stoned: :stoned: :stoned: :stoned: :dance:

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Originally Posted by indicastoner

why would they make it legal to smoke but not grow

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Because then how is the government going to profit?

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Originally Posted by Exclamation221

Uhhh correct me if I'm wrong but the addictive element of tobacco is nicotine which is naturally occuring in the tobacco..

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yes, nicotine does naturally occur in tobacco; however, cigarette companies extract all nicotine from the tobacco and add precise amounts back into it to create a more addicting cigarette.

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Originally Posted by JaggedEdge

Someone said pot is totally natural unlike cig's where the companies put a massive amount of other chemicals to get you addicted. So I started thinking, if weed were legal, not just decriminalized, and you could go to a store and purchase a pack of Joints or Blunts, would the big companies start putting additives that would make weed as bad as tobacco? I just seems to me complete legalization may not be a good thing. I would rather give my money to my local dealer than some greedy company looking out for their own intrest. As is, it is possible to get some laced with a hardcore drug without your knowing, but honestly I prefer my chances with a dealer. The odds are I never will, but hand it over to American companies and it will prob become as big a problem as tobacco.

By the way, I am a tobacco smoker, and can't stand Philip Morris and the rest. Once my life settles down I bit, i plan on quiting, I don't like giving greedy assholes my money.

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That's why I'd rather have it decriminilized in the US, like Denver and Amsterdam.

It's still technically illegal in Amsterdam, but the cops just don't care.

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Originally Posted by JaggedEdge

Someone said pot is totally natural unlike cig's where the companies put a massive amount of other chemicals to get you addicted. So I started thinking, if weed were legal, not just decriminalized, and you could go to a store and purchase a pack of Joints or Blunts, would the big companies start putting additives that would make weed as bad as tobacco? I just seems to me complete legalization may not be a good thing. I would rather give my money to my local dealer than some greedy company looking out for their own intrest. As is, it is possible to get some laced with a hardcore drug without your knowing, but honestly I prefer my chances with a dealer. The odds are I never will, but hand it over to American companies and it will prob become as big a problem as tobacco.

By the way, I am a tobacco smoker, and can't stand Philip Morris and the rest. Once my life settles down I bit, i plan on quiting, I don't like giving greedy assholes my money.

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Yep, one reason why I jsut want it to be decriminalized, but like tabbaco you could grow and sell your own im guessing.

My friend who lives in Amersterdam says the weed sucks over there because of all the stuff they add into it.

i highly doubt the credbility lf your friend.

The tobacco plant is "genetically" predisposed to soak out all of the carcinogenic/radioactive ingredients found in the soil.

Not claiming to be an expert on weed all over the world but i'm in the uk and have only once got any weed here that comes close to the stuff in amsterdam! I think on the whole most people who have been to the dam would agree it's a lot better than anything they've had before. Not sure what you mean by "the stuff they add into it" Are you talking bout shit to make it heavier? Coz i don't believe i've ever been passed anything like that in the dam, but i guess i wouldn't necesserily know. Or did you mean chemical fertilizers? To be honest i really couldn't give a shit about that, they're only adding it to get more potent and bigger buds, thats a good thing ain't it?