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So where will all that 'legal' pot come from?
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by FR7 Baptist, Dec 11, 2012.
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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I wonder when Monsanto will try to corner the market with GMO pot crops.
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
From Potheads who have nothing better to do in life. -
I have heard of government growing pot, so I'm sure they have plenty in stock to sell at a good price. Soon we will see our politicians spinning the benefits of legal pot because it will help pay for education and more cops on the street. You know just like the spin they give to promote gambling and Casinos. God help us.
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padredurand Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Let's see.... we put in 65 acres of high moisture corn that sold for $340 a ton....
[whistling to myself while I do the math in my head]
Web says an ounce of good quality weed sells for $300-400.....
[whistling to myself while I do more math in my head]
400 pounds to the acre... divided by 16.....
Do you think the cows would notice? -
So where will all that 'legal' pot come from?
From farmer dudes. -
Cows notice? Doubt it, as you'll sell your beef/dairy herd, along with your chickens and pigs because you can no longer afford to feed them.
People notice? Doubt it. When high on pot, do people pay attention to what's no longer in the grocery store, affordable by the average Joe? It'll probably be too late when they realize the true meaning of "eating high on the hog". Oh, well.... rice seasoned with chicken necks can be tasty.
Whisper -- don't tell anybody else. Keep a couple of acres or so of corn in production to keep your heirloom seed viable and supporting breeding pairs of animals. Do the long term math in your head, as well. -
Pot grows wild in almost every field, ditch, and roadside from California to Virginia. And, yes, the cows notice. And love it! They eat it and get all silly, running around the pasture and kicking up their hooves.
Legalize it. Tax it. Just like alcohol. Didn't we learn anything from Prohibition? All Prohibition of alcohol did was to create a criminal class that supplied the demand. The same is true of pot (and most other street drugs). All the "war on drugs" has done is create a criminal class that makes war on other dealers as well as on the public in general why doing nothing to stem the use of such drugs while costing the taxpayers over 10 billion dollars every year. Brazile cut their drug use in half. How? They legalized it, taxed it, and watched revenue go up and use go down. -
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
What about the potency? Higher or lower potency if made legal? -
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Most of the arguments in favor of legalization make a lot of sense, I just can't get past this counterargument. -
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If pot were run like most states run liquor stores then there would be no real impact on youth access. They do what they want to get what they want now, and that won't change.
However, we must consider the impact of removing the taboo/mystery nature of pot. It's like hanging a "wet paint" on a bench. It makes people just want to touch it. Remove that "doing this feeds my rebellious and adventure seeking" tendencies and use goes down. There is sure to be a spike at first as people want to experience the novelty of legal pot, but then it would become old news and lose its appeal.
Let's consider alcohol.
Person A grows up hearing how bad alcohol is and seeing his rebellious and "free" peers drinking. He rebels hard and drinks often. It becomes a serious issue for him. The allure of the taboo is very strong.
Person B grows up with a balanced and biblical view of alcohol. There is no taboo. There is nothing to rebel against. He experiments a bit in his teens but when he is 21 his alcohol use spikes upward hard. He gets in some trouble, but overall outgrows the novelty. He enjoys an occasional drink and does so responsibly.
How about guns?
I own several firearms. They are tools used to provide food an security for my family. I let my boys handle them with supervision. I take them shooting. I treat their BB gun like its one of my rifles. So do they. My youngest was asking Grandpa about "Daddy's secret safe in his closet". This is where I keep a loaded pistol locked up. I met his curiosity with openness. I took him home, opened the safe, unloaded the gun and handed it to him. He was 7 at the time. He has not asked about it again. When I worked security and it was an armed assignment my boys would regularly see me walk around with a pistol on my hip.
If I kept these things hidden and mysterious, as opposed to a healthy and honest approach, there can be only trouble.
We should have learned these lessons from Prohibition. It did not solve the problems associated with alcohol. It made criminals of honest people overnight. It created an entire economy built on crime. It bred violence. -
Recently the findings from a long term study of pot use has come out that shows marijuana not linked with long term cognitive impairment.
But what about all the prior research linking cannabis with lasting negative effects on cognition? Those studies may have been confounded by the fact that in many cases, heavy users were tested after being abstinent for only one day — so their performance could have been affected either by residual marijuana in their systems or by irritability or other effects of withdrawal. Studies that have looked at heavy users after longer periods of abstinence generally concur with the new research, finding no lingering effect on cognition.
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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