Another thing... right now instead of Marleys or Marlboro Greens produced by Phillip Morris we have huge gangs of organized crime growing weed all over the world.

The Vietnamese have set up warehouses all over the world:

Pictured: Britain's biggest cannabis farm... with £2m worth of weed | Mail Online

Mexican Mafia sets up huge od grows that are dangerous to anyone passing by and likely do a lot of environmental damage. Right here in the front range we had 1000's of plants taken out of the national forest just west of Lyons.

Lately, I have heard reports from Europe of bad weed being sprayed with glass or metal shavings to give it bag appeal.

If I had a choice between a mass produced but "natural" mj cig and the stuff organized crime puts out I think I'll go with the Marley.

So there's another reason to legalize, and I'd argue that having cig companies produce Marleys is better than what we have now.


A summary of reasons we need to legalize despite the FACT that when it is, there will be regulations on it just like there are on alcohol:

1. End the Drug War
2. Allow the farming of industrial hemp
3. Put organized crime and other profiteers out of the cannabis business
4. Control the rampant distribution of unsafe marijuana

IMO, these are the real goals and other stuff like mj culture and mj lifestyle and having an artificially inflated income are far down the list of what I care about.