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TUESDAY DECEMBER 19 2006 10:00 AM

Submitted by johnnyfu. Edited By erin_broadley.

TAGS: marijuana

In unsurprising but still welcome news, a report announced today that weed is America�s biggest cash crop. Apparently, the 10,000 metric tons grown annually in America is valued at over $35 billion, which blows away the price-tag of the country�s corn, soybean and hay crops. The report was written by Jon Gettman, the head of marijuana legalization group, the coalition for rescheduling cannabis, who cited federal government data to totally blow everybody�s mind about how much money weed is worth.

Marijuana legalization advocates have long claimed that the sticky icky is America�s leading cash crop. And if you think about it for longer than ten seconds, it�s glaringly obvious. Even with corn hitting its highest price in a decade thanks to its use in gasoline-additive ethanol, you could still fill a wheelbarrow with corn for the price of a quarter ounce of weed.

As White House Office of National Drug Control Policy spokesman Tom Riley noted, with an illegal substance as America�s number one cash crop, America joins an exclusive club.

"Coca is Colombia's largest cash crop and that hasn't worked out for them, and opium poppies are Afghanistan's largest crop, and that has worked out disastrously for them," Riley said. "I don't know why we would venture down that road.

Gettman and his marijuana reform cronies are using the data to argue that marijuana should be legalized so it can be taxed, and production and distribution could be controlled by the government.

However, they�re wrong. The implications of the data is clear. We should illegalize corn! The federal government would save a ton of money in subsidies and it would grant corn a criminal allure it sorely lacks.

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Vestril

Coronado, CA

February 2003

DEC 19, 2006 10:07 AM

Because those situations are remotely comparable to ours

wtfchuck

Norfolk, VA

December 2005

DEC 19, 2006 10:25 AM

Maybe because the US government spends a lot of money to keep it illegal in those countries?

deathofamartian

Warrenton, VA

July 2006

DEC 19, 2006 10:35 AM

WHOOOO HOOOOO!

ObservingOne

Monroe, LA

April 2006

DEC 19, 2006 10:41 AM

Apparently, the 10,000 metric tons grown annually in America is valued at over $35 billion, which blows away the price-tag of the country's corn, soybean and hay crops. The report was written by Jon Gettman, the head of marijuana legalization group, the coalition for rescheduling cannabis, who cited federal government data to totally blow everybody's mind about how much money weed is worth.

And if it were made legal, that same 10,000 metric tons would be worth maybe $3 billion.

wenis

Brentwood, CA

July 2006

DEC 19, 2006 11:10 AM

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!

RigorMortis

Bloomington, IN

September 2004

DEC 19, 2006 11:17 AM

Every two weeks I spend as much money at my dealer's house as I do at the grocery store.

RileyStClair

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

DEC 19, 2006 11:30 AM

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!

you could join the corn cartel! it would be like scarface except...cornier.

Cain

SUICIDEGIRL

Iceland

DEC 19, 2006 11:32 AM

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

_taylor_

Omaha, NE

August 2006

DEC 19, 2006 12:06 PM

the point is prohibition does not work. theres a bazzillion examples of this, sure letting it be completly legal and everything probably isnt the greatest idea, but i think thats a far better one then prohibition. There is a better way to maintain social order and still have our rights. There's just way way to many greedy dumb asses in charge of this country.. and everyone else too ignorant to take a stand.. this is true for many things in our country..

StarBelliedBoy

Philadelphia, PA

December 2003

DEC 19, 2006 01:01 PM

_taylor_ said:
the point is prohibition does not work.

Really? I thought the point of the article was that marijuana makes a lot of money. Maybe you're a better comprehender than me.

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

DEC 19, 2006 01:08 PM

StarBelliedBoy said:

_taylor_ said:
the point is prohibition does not work.

Really? I thought the point of the article was that marijuana makes a lot of money. Maybe you're a better comprehender than me.

Which would show that prohibition hasn't prevented it from making a lot of money (which is one of the goals of prohibition). Not hard to comprehend that.