Does Marlboro have Marijuana Factories?

[IAmKowalski]

I heard many years ago that Phillip Morris/Marlboro already had factories set up to process marijuana and they're just waiting for it to become legal.

Do you think this is truth or just urban legend? If it's for real, where are these factories?

It seems like a likely scenario to me, they would just have to modify a tobacco plant to mechanically deseed and sift the weed, and they would definitely make a lot of money from it. Hopefully they don't add dangerous addictive chemicals to the weed!

Oh, of course. Marlboro's had that place going for a while - it's located right next to Area 51, so the security's pretty good. You have to be careful when you visit for tours though, 'cause they use Yeti for guards.

[IAmKowalski]

I believe they have all of the brand names for strains and whatever they put on the packaging copyrighted so when it does go into production they wont have to wait, I've heard some company has built dispensers for packs of joints with all the names like blueberry, etc on them too. I doubt they can legally have factories though

You cannot copyright product names, but you can trademark them. You can also look at what trademarks are registered by a company in public records. Since no one has ever actually shown that P.M. has anything trademarked which hits at Cannabis, then I think we can discount this legend too.

[IAmKowalski]

The key issue here is the Build-Up of radioactive materials.

Repeated year-in year-out growth in the same soil causes a build-up of Phosphate fertilizers (which have Polonium in them) which is then aborbed by the Tobacco plant.

So it will (and has) take years for the build up to occur and its effects to become noticeable.

The kicker is that the tobacco companies have known this for years. Life is cheap and there will always be "replacement smokers" available in the 3rd World

First, tobacco smoke is carcinogenic (or more specifically a number of chemicals contained in tobacco smoke) and any added danger from whatever 'polonium buildup' might exist (if any) is negligible by comparison to the total concentration of carcinogens naturally present in the plant. Second, all of the food you are eating was grown with the same phosphate fertilizers - this includes corn/grain - this means that if you are worried about radioactive contamination from these fertilizers that you should eliminate all meat from your diet first and foremost - buildup in the tissues over the course of the animals life would be higher than the initial concentration in the feed stock. You should then eliminate any and all vegetables or grains grown with chemical fertilizers and go all organic.

The fact is that Tobacco is NOT good for you no matter how it is grown. American Spirit Tobacco is no healthier for you than tobacco grown on an industrial farm in KY. We know damn well that smoking will kill you, so it's rather silly to pretend that the 'real danger' is the fertilizer - if it were then it would effect non-smokers as much as smokers, which we know is not the case or we would all be dying of cancer unless we shop only at organic farmers' markets or grew all of our own food in organic gardens in the back yard.

Fact: Tobacco is bad for you. Fact: Tobacco is horribly addictive. Just stay away from the stuff.

[IAmKowalski]

If they ever do legalize it, I think the real potheads will still be buying it through street dealers and such because the government regulated product will be shitty.

Hmmm.... Is that why there's all these "street alcohol dealers" around? 'Cause everyone knows that legal alcohol is shitty 'cause it's government regulated - right? Hmm... wait a minute.

Regulation will look a lot like regulation of alcohol does - think about it. Yes, there are a few big companies that make crap like Budweiser beer, but there are also craft breweries and micro-brews as well as good products made by larger companies (J.W.Dundee and Blue Moon come to mind but that's a personal preference). It is silly and illogical to think that the quality or variety of strains and growing would decline just because "the big bad government" got involved.

[theforthdrive]

Hmmm.... Is that why there's all these "street alcohol dealers" around? 'Cause everyone knows that legal alcohol is shitty 'cause it's government regulated - right? Hmm... wait a minute.

Regulation will look a lot like regulation of alcohol does - think about it. Yes, there are a few big companies that make crap like Budweiser beer, but there are also craft breweries and micro-brews as well as good products made by larger companies (J.W.Dundee and Blue Moon come to mind but that's a personal preference). It is silly and illogical to think that the quality or variety of strains and growing would decline just because "the big bad government" got involved.

Bigger question is why would anyone buy it? most smokers are used to the high quality indoor herb. I doubt most would buy cheap "big tob." if they are used to something better. Its not like the homegrown would go away. we already have grows and distributions ready to go here in cali... but then again what do I know Ive ben called a "chronic snob"

[LolaGal]

[QUOTE=IAmKowalski;1941463 American Spirit Tobacco is no healthier for you than tobacco grown on an industrial farm in KY. [/QUOTE]

HEY! We makum good tobacco here on industrial farm in KY. We sellum tobacco to American Spirit all time. :wtf: Anyway, if there are secret Marlboro Marijuana Factories, I say CHARGE!! I think we should hunt these factories down and infiltrate them.