From: rodvonhugenstein [Rob]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 14:21

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From: gargoyle1
Date: 3-Jul-2008 14:27

Legalize weed and this shit will go away overnight.

From: pontius
Date: 3-Jul-2008 14:46

Potheads.

From: smokey [krispy]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 14:57

i live in humboldt county ant the bulshit thats in the news is exaderated. we do smoke alot of weed here though.

From: zerosignal [ZeroSignal]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 14:58

"It is the state's largest cash crop, generating nearly $14 billion"

So why the fuck not legalize it? Tax the shit out of it and we could all get nice stuff from the government. Or it could finance the oncoming World War 3. Either way someone could make a fortune, and I could finally be able to find some fucking reefer.

From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 15:29

Legalize it and control it like other vegetables.

If you grow your own, little or no regulation and you could sell it as long as you declared the income on your taxes--just as if you sold tomatoes or sweet potatoes.

If you choose to sell it commercially, you'd be subject to USDA rules and regulations regarding pesticides and fertilizers.

The prices would drop, the demand would remain the same and it would take the Plant of Joy out of the hands of the criminal element and put it in the hands of regular folks.

From: crapola [Quit_Bitchin]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 16:05

Bella bella bella.

If you legalize it, people will grow their own. How can you tax someone for something that they produce in their backyard or in their domiciles, unless you have a gigantic army of investigators inspecting your neighborhood, your house, and yard weekly for a plant that is nothing more than a weed. It can grow in extremely poor soil conditions and is very drought tolerable.

Does the government tax you for the vegetables you grow in your garden? Sure when you buy the seedlings but, if you harvest the seeds of one plant you don't have to buy seeds for that plant any more. How will the government then pay for all the corresponding problems linked to marijuana usage? More taxes? Sorry my hot and saucy little rotteneer, but I feel that I pay enough. What about you?

From: rotteneggs13 [a bakers dozen]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 16:06

You fucking stoners, don't you know that marijuana is an
addictive and dangerous narcotic?

(now where are my doritos?)

I'd still like to know who decided that alcohol is the best
choice for the masses as a recreational drug. Idiots.
ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL!

From: jaybegood [Sir Robin of D'Hood]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 16:46

Smoked a joint once, made me want to rape and kill. But I was in Vietnam them, '68 so it really didn't matter.

From: crapola [Quit_Bitchin]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 17:03

Sure that wasn't the 'Jacob's Ladder?' (1990)

From: noracejusthuman [Alien From Earth]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 17:27

That is a
GREAT movie, IMO.
I really enjoyed it.

From: commodore [Commo Dore]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 19:03

Now that's American.

From: pundit [likeIsaid pundit]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 20:38

not trying to be a conspiracy theorists, well actually I am, if the californicate economy earns this much from grass cash crops, why the big effort to lock up potheads? you know, the end consumer?

is this a long term plan (thats the conspiracy part) by the big pharmaceuticals to have everything in place by weeding out (pun intended) the small players? the dudes that grow their own? and then, conveniently the politishuns who are on the take suddenly see the error of their ways and legalize the stuff?

jus' wondrin . . .

From: robotpope [Kiss my Titanium ass]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 21:20

Gee. $14 BILLION! That would pay for - what? - 3 weeks of King George's war?

Of course, government figures are inflated by 10X to 100X on the pot side and under-reported by about half on the war side.

From: erethism [i suspect]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 01:39

Budding Prospects: A Pastoral (Contemporary American Fiction) (Paperback)
by T.C. Boyle (Author)

"Budding Prospects" is T. Coraghessan Boyle's first novel, published in 1984. It tells the story of Felix, a 31-year-old directionless self-proclaimed quitter who joins up with a handful of ne'er-do-wells to grow marajuana in a "Little Appalachia" in California's Mendicino County. The get-rich-quick scheme soon goes awry. Felix finds himself at odds with a sadistic rural sherrif. The man who bankrolled the operation, a shady smooth-talking Marin County huckster, is not the man Felix thought he was. His hillbilly neighbors all seem to know what he's really up to on the isolated farm. Felix and his farmhand friends live in a permanent state of paranoia and fear.

From: powderedtoastman [Michael]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 03:01

Don't be fooled by the figures.

The reason why there is so much money in growing weed is that it is still a relatively rare product because of its illegality. Even if you know someone who can get you a small bag for a 20, marihuana is not as freely available as, say, tobacco. Demand exceeds supplies by far, thus keeping prices high.

If it were legal, you would see prices drop sharply. Perhaps tobacco companies would invest in the business and prices wouldn't go down as much (tobacco being a similar product, but with a waning market, while weed would give them revenues not seen in decades). But ultimately, marihuana would cost less.

What we need to do is not look at market value, but actual "agricultural" yield. How many tons of weed are produced per year? I am sure that figure is no match for California's production of grapes, grapefruits and oranges.

From: robwes2001 [robwes]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 06:56

is there a less "green" industry than the gun/ammunition production-it is based entirely on the processing of heavy metals which are as almost as environmentally destructive as mining and processing gold & diamonds ... precious elements as it were - dump them too?

From: wars0ng [ARYAN PRIDE]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 07:57

Stupid n!ggers, selling marijuan to good white folk, probably just trying to get them stupd or into the Reefer Madness so they can rape theit assholes with their long, hard, powerful chocalate cocks, white women need to be told, you might spend you life unsatisfied like me if it happens.............

Dumm n!gars, never learn. We should shoot them all. Rlly. I don't want one.....

From: maidenmaiden [whatever]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 07:58

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