It's not like legalizing pot is gonna completely eradicate crime and put the gaurds out of work. I'm sure they'll have no problem keeping the jails full and the police busy with other crimes.
Without analyzing the statistics, the statement is unsupported. Read this: Pot Prisoners Cost Americans $1 Billion a Year | NowPublic News Coverage But try to read between the lines. All those expenditures translate to jobs that will disappear.
Anyone interested in history of American Drug War should watch this: American Drug War: The Last White Hope - War on Drugs
So you think the people that are growing, importing and distributing the stuff now are the Boy Scouts? These people will kill you in a heart beat if you stumble across a field up in the mountains and the guys that import the stuff and sell to children....they are the good guy's? Come on people, think it through a little bit more :idea:
Most assuredly they are not the pillars of society. They probably will also not be too happy with someone taking away their source of income.
Who is taking away their source. They would be licensed growers. Pay a per acre free and only sell to licensed middlemen. Model it after cigar and cigarette distribution but only retail in Liquor stores. I can see it now, you would have some pre-reolled mediocre big time commercial brands at the counter and a humidor of the better quality types. Growers can opt for a large industrial farm operation that sells to Big Corp by the truckload. Big-Corp uses the entire plant creating the retail cig type things along with hemp products from the waste bits. Smaller growers would be more of the specialist types. Like is done with alcohol create a "proof" system as a measure of strength of the active components. The infrastructure is in place, BATF that licenses distilleries and tobacco producers can oversee from the federal level and state local alcohol control boards would handle the state and regional levels. Put the out of work jailers as pot farm inspectors in the Dept of Ag. License fees and taxes could more than pay for all this provided the price levels used are based on a current avg national street price.
Ah yes. Will you be the on driving down to Mexico to explain your business plan to the cartels? I am sure they are eager for Big American Corp to take over their business.
The cartels have the cash on hand to go legit. Lot of land down in 'ole Mexico that can be used for cultivation. They can create the Big-Corp too. With in years of the US legalizing and showing that money can be made by a lot of people a large portion of the world would follow suit. Then we get the debates about pot companies sponsoring racing like the beer and alcohol companies do. Well ya know Bud, the Panama Red, Shell, Johnny Walker Toyota Camry was a bit of a handful out there today. Our crew cheif, Smokey, made the right call on only putting on one of those Goodyear Hemp Oil filled tires and getting me out just ahead of BiggNuggz Ford. I gotta plan...now if only the rest of world would jsut understand my genius...
Ah yes, but that's the beauty of it, get America off imported pot forever! Who knows, the Mexicans might even start a price war, driving down the cost for everyone.......it's a win-win-win-win deal to me! :cornut:
So if they are not legitimately growing pot in Mexico, who is picking the vegetables and cutting the lawns in California?
It first needs to be approved by the AMA and then the FDA. If you understand THC and how it is naturally created in "GODS" pharmacy the likely hood of consistent levels to be able to package/market is not yet possible. The future of medical marijuana belongs to man-made cannabinoids. Not the field growers but controlled laboratories. An example of a THC man made clone is Nabilone. This approved by the FDA and can be prescribed by a physician. There are actually a growing list of others as well. HU-211, Dronabinol, Sativex, Rimonabant etc. If and when it ever does become legal I can assume that the home growers and out of country suppliers will still be selling illegal pot and will never be licensed or approved to grow and sell their products in the USA.
It is in California, but probably not in some other states. Retrain them as health care workers. rrr: Or, they could start hemp farms. Give a politician a choice between adding a huge tax revenue source that few object to vs. keeping a union happy. I'll bet on the tax revenue. :lol: Sacramento couldn't give a flying frog for local economies. They are frequently hanging them out to dry. Besides, the prisons are already overflowing. There are plenty of folk to keep them occupied for the foreseeable future.
Quote: Or, they could start hemp farms. Wonderful idea, they could even use it to make paper with and save a tree or two helping solve the Global Warming problem!
Wha? You mean it isn't legal now? Well Damn. I never thought I'd see a topic on this forum that spawned such universal agreement. Love it. And hellz yeah - legalize and tax it.
Amazing and true. C'mon people let's get a little controversy in here. I have it on very good authority, that Jan B. wants to legalize it. Whaddya think of that Partsman and Paul Webster, your boyfriend wants to legalize it:eek6::eek6: