wenis said:
if they made corn illegal...would that mean my town would be the biggest spot ever to score. my towns income is all in corn. we even have a yearly festival called cornfest...i would be like a pimp in the corn business..sweet!
DeKalb, IL........Go Huskies.
yeah Northern...although i prefer the vast cornfields of the U of I myself
I don't know, man, if anybody in this age of extremely potent and available weed doesn't know any pot addicts...where have you been?
You don't know anybody that's kind of wasted their entire existence getting stoned, just kind of settled for a completely mediocre and sad life just so they can start getting high in the morning?
Maybe it's because I'm in my 30s, and my friends who live the pot addict situation are pretty much as sad as the alcoholics and the junkies--except they're not gonna, like, almost die, and go, "Hm, you know, maybe I oughta think about this."
Not that it should be classed with cocaine and heroin. I think it should absolutely be full-on legalized, so we can deal with it like alcohol--another drug that some people can use socially, and other people just completely waste their lives on.
wenis said:
if they made corn illegal...would that mean my town would be the biggest spot ever to score. my towns income is all in corn. we even have a yearly festival called cornfest...i would be like a pimp in the corn business..sweet!
DeKalb, IL........Go Huskies.
I trump that with my hometown being Shabbona, IL. 30 minutes southwest of DeKalb. Take THAT Huskies.
Mike_Doughty said:
I think it should absolutely be full-on legalized, so we can deal with it like alcohol--another drug that some people can use socially, and other people just completely waste their lives on.
NikkiIs said:
Would anybody seriously purchase goverment approved marijuana? That would be like going from non-filtered Camels to GPC Ultra Light 100's.
I've never understood this argument. It's not even an apt analogy, considering non-filter camels are legal.
If anyone has any information that supports the theory that the government would restrict marijuana production to weak varieties, I'd like to hear it.
Actually, I heard that G13 is supposed to be the strongest strain, and developed by the government, so that kinda doen't make sense. But, then again, neither do I.
P.S. YAAAAAY!!! WEEEEEED!!!
The goverment would never actually produce and sell. If marijuana was ever legalized, production would be handed over to the tobacco companies. In such a way the goverment will still have some control over it and Big Tobacco is already set up to handle the taxes generated from the sells of a pack of Marijuana Cigarettes. As everyone should know by now, there are more chemicals in cigarettes then actual tobacco. Cutting the tabacco in such a way increases profits. So, given the current procedures for making cigarettes, and Big Tobacco's desire for your dollar, they will make the cheapest product for the maximum return. And that is the basis for my argument.
NikkiIs said:
Would anybody seriously purchase goverment approved marijuana? That would be like going from non-filtered Camels to GPC Ultra Light 100's.
I've never understood this argument. It's not even an apt analogy, considering non-filter camels are legal.
If anyone has any information that supports the theory that the government would restrict marijuana production to weak varieties, I'd like to hear it.
Actually, I heard that G13 is supposed to be the strongest strain, and developed by the government, so that kinda doen't make sense. But, then again, neither do I.
P.S. YAAAAAY!!! WEEEEEED!!!
The goverment would never actually produce and sell. If marijuana was ever legalized, production would be handed over to the tobacco companies. In such a way the goverment will still have some control over it and Big Tobacco is already set up to handle the taxes generated from the sells of a pack of Marijuana Cigarettes. As everyone should know by now, there are more chemicals in cigarettes then actual tobacco. Cutting the tabacco in such a way increases profits. So, given the current procedures for making cigarettes, and Big Tobacco's desire for your dollar, they will make the cheapest product for the maximum return. And that is the basis for my argument.
Customer demand would control the potency of weed, not the production companies. I know that if it were legalized, and the companies producing it were putting out shitty product, I would just continue to grow my own. The money will dictate the quality, regardless of what any one company or group wants. That's basic economics.
Riley said illegal drug use was a "serious part of the economy," but he rejected the notion of an economic argument for legalizing marijuana.
He said marijuana use was an "inherently harmful activity" with serious physical and mental health consequences. He said more American teens were in treatment centers for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.
Stinabean
Winfield, IL
October 2005
DEC 19, 2006 07:30 PM