Congresswoman ShotFollow

Or, you know, recognize that things have various levels of being dangerous and take sensible precautions as in a reasonable manner.

But I'm sure the bubble thing works as well. Until it collapses and smothers you.

Not even close. They're as easy to control production and distribution as alcohol. No, they're illegal because we, as a society, want them illegal.

No you are very incorrect sir. If i was so easy to control there would not be millions and millions of dollars wasted every year trying to do so. In Canada alone roughly 1 billion of the law enforcement budget is dedicated to the attempted control of drugs, about 50% of that is directly related to marijuana. 500 million dollars spent every year to catch drug growers and dealers just for pot.

http://www.cannabisfacts.ca/senatereportquotes.html

If it was so easy to control drug production and distribution why can't they?

The reason it is not legal is because it is an uncontrollable industry, and if people can't make money on it, they don't want it around. Instead they would rather pay 50~80K/yr to keep these terrible threats to society locked up.

Money is the reason and if it isn't going to as few pockets as possible then it isn't going to work.

After seeing her picture all over the place the past two days, I would just like to say that I wouldn't mind sticking my pistol in her and firing off a few rounds...

and why was it brief? Oh that is right because they spent an *** tonne of money on something they could not control, how did it become legal, oh yes manufacturers of the leading alcohols at the time lobbied in washington to have it changed. Thus you have a controlled group already handling the production and distribution.

Since Marijuana for example is a self contained plant (unlike booze whose ingrediants require time to grow/harvest/process) it is nearly impossible for anyone to control it. Which makes it really really hard to make money on. If I could grow 20 plants a year legally, how would the government make money? They wouldn't. If they made the use and possesion legal but not the sales or growing it would change nothing.

If anything they should change the charges to uncontrolled substances, since they clearly can't control them.



Edited, Jan 10th 2011 6:27pm by rdmcandie

If pot was legalized your 20 plants wouldn't be worth ****. Large corporate farms would undercut you to the point where you'd make hardly any money.

I'm not growing them to make money. I'm growing my 20 plants so that I dont have to pay some large corporation for their processed product.

Timelord got the reasons why MJ was made illegal in the first place.

Exactly this. I could care less about selling weed and making piddley money on it. Id rather grow it for myself so I wouldn't need to buy from the government or someone else and this is why the government couldn't control it. Everyone would just grow it themselves in their backyards. With little to no effort, less than even a vegetable garden.

This is accompanied by lobbying from major marijuana competitors such as pulp companies, clothing companies, pharmaceuticals, is the reason pot is not legal. Government stands to make more money by keeping it illegal than not.


Edited, Jan 10th 2011 7:37pm by rdmcandie

You are absolutely right it is completely legal. But it requires much more work than planting a few plants. Unless you go outside to a ubrew (govt makes money), or you go and buy a home brew kit (govt makes money). Marijuana is a self preserved process, you plant plant. Cut clone, Plant clone, Cut another clone from the mother (the first plant) and so on and so forth. The mother plant will last a very very very long time if cared for properly, and will result in many many many batches of pot.

It is all done with 1 seed, and 1 plant, and if done right can last several years. But each time you want beer you gotta go buy the stuff to make it, and the govt gets paid.

ITT the govn't hates all subsistence farming.

Expanded for clarity. And no, he won't.

The answer is no, in case anyone was still wondering.
Everybody over 18 in the Netherlands is legally allowed to grow 5 or 6 plants if I'm not mistaken yet not many people do. And buying weed is a little more complicated than just going to the shop on the corner because there aren't that many coffeeshops, you need to identify yourself and they can only sell you a small amount.

Its true we get royally shafted in regards to booze. It is like 40 bucks for 24 beers here. It sucks mega ***, and is much cheaper to produce your own. Which would likely occur in the same way if the Govt ever made weed legal, they would tax the **** out of it and it would be hella more expensive compared to growing your own weed (which is much easier than making booze).

Hell it costs almost 10 bucks for a pack of smokes here, if I could make my own smokes for a fraction the cost I would do that too, instead I just buy them from the Indian Reserve 10 minutes from here for about half the price.