Quote Originally Posted by snow owl
? Look, kids now are not allowed to consume legal drugs until a certain age. There are reasons for this, and maybe everyone doesn't agree with those reasons, but I do. .


People that think 16 year olds shouldnt be allowed in bars is just encouraging them to drink on the edge of cliffs, on rooftops, on the freeway. Its about harm reduction, 16 year olds should be allowed in bars, they are in europe and its perfectlly fine. Age restrictions cause more problems than they solve. We should be teaching kids about drugs not letting learn about it on the street. How many times have kids come here and asked about the oldest urban myths? Is my weed laced?, is there rat poison in acid? etc etc. We combat that and it makes things safer. Kids will do drugs regardless, here they can learn to be safer doing it.
And i want pot legal, who says it will all be phillip morris growing it? You can grow your own baccy if you want chem free stuff, no one says you need to buy marlboroughs. I want to buy weed in stores, period. I want to pay taxes on it. Decrim means i still have to buy from the black market, i live in a freaking shoe box i cant grow. I fail to see how you have some crystal ball as to how legalization would be. Holland doesnt have a bunch of big business growing it, they have a bunch of small grows and works just fine.




"And decriminalization and not legalization would still generate taxes through citations"


No, Fuck that. Totally forget that. Who gets charged for weed now? Blacks, the poor, kids, the homeless. Rich white people never. No fucking way is that fair that people who dont have a home to smoke it get busted, and no one else has to pay.




"Underground boutique growers would face less risk and expand operations, price would be driven down but balance profit due to expansion"



I am against underground growing. Permits, having the juice wired up to code, etc are what is important. Underground makes it still the criminal gangs, still hidden, still dangerous. Above ground growing, in safe places, not an apartment, thats the ideal. We want to stop fires, fert filled weed and gang rip offs, not stop some corporation from making money. I dont have a problem with peeps growing their own, but the benefits from big companies doing it would greatly overshadow any downsides. If people want organic, trust me the market shall decide. You can go up and against phillip morris, just because people will want the weed grown by the little guy, thats cared for. I pay more to drink beer from the micro brewery, because i like it better than bud.