Quote Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
"however, I feel as if legalization would lead to an inevitable raping of the plant by our capitalistic society."

This plant was already commercially raped before it was ever made illegal. In fact, before making cannabis illegal, it was once illegal to NOT GROW on your land.

The people need to learn their history a bit better. Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Could you please define the terms "raping of the plant", and "commercially raped"? What does it mean to you?

I bet if you walked down the street and asked people to define that, you would get many different answers.

If you mean planting many acres of land, and doing it on an industrial scale, what would be the harm in that? People have been moving that direction for many thousands of years. Look at wheat.

Ten thousand years ago wheat was a wild grass that provided way less food per plant than the verities we have today. It was all done with selective breeding and experimentation.

Just like many other products, there will be large producers and small ones. I doubt these producers will want to flood the market with crap, especially the smaller ones.

I mean like, what do you want to drink Red White & Blue beer (crap), or fine, tasty beer from a micro brew?

See? People have a choice to make. They make that choice using money. The people who wish to profit can not do so by pissing off their customers with a lousy product.
pepurr Reviewed by pepurr on . I don't think marijuana should be legal in US--your thoughts? I honestly don't think we should legalize weed in America. I love herb, and know of all it's potential, however, I feel as if legalization would lead to an inevitable raping of the plant by our capitalistic society. I wouldn't want the government to rule the crop, and basically be pawning off low-quality products for mass profits. Rather, I think decriminalization would be the solution. The ambiguity with decriminalization would mean, with such mass support, it would be virtually legal, while Rating: 5