Marijuana initiative could make or break Obama in Colorado

jim beam wrote:

The govt should kill all of the pot plants and anyone caught with it should be put up against a firing squad. All drugs and anyone caught with them, off with there heads and stoned to death. That's what the bible teaches. Now I am going to chick fa la. Anyone with me.

Junior wrote:

Hm, I thought dope was supposed to mellow one out?
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Confused wrote:

The way our planet deals with the marijuana issue highlights how insane our species is. People will always smoke it and it will always be impossible to stop especially with the new indoor growing systems.
So instead of controlling and profiting from a $17 billion a year industry government continue to stick their heads in the sand and act like infants.
Yes marijuana does lead to other drugs because you have to go to an illegal drug dealer to buy it and so you come into contact with the real bad drugs.
If it were legal and available in shops most people may try it and walk away because the thrill factor is gone.
Funny how Holland has the lowest marijuana use in the world amongst teenagers when they allow it to be sold in shops.
Humans are very stupid indeed.

Doctor My Eyes wrote:

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"Yes marijuana does lead to other drugs because you have to go to an illegal drug dealer to buy it and so you come into contact with the real bad drugs."
Really? That has to be the winner for the most innane comment made on this thread since its inception. Or.......hmmm......, could you maybe be 12 years old?

ZimBoy wrote:

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Why it is fact, when I lived in Holland I never came into contact with any hard drugs because I used the coffee shops but in the USA and Britain my weed dealers are always trying to sell me cocaine, speed and ecstasy.

Doctor My Eyes wrote:

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Are they successful?

ZimBoy wrote:

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Why it is fact, when I lived in Holland I never came into contact with any hard drugs because I used the coffee shops but in the USA and Britain my weed dealers are always trying to sell me cocaine, speed and ecstasy.

El Chingon wrote:

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Forget "sell", sheeit, my neighborhood dealer has a dam free sample plate out when I go buy my weed. All kinds of pills, powders, crystals, liquids, you name it. And once in a while I see a stoner take the bait and get hookeds. Peace out.

ZimBoy wrote:

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Thanks for that info, I am trying hard to get governments to wake up so comments like this will make it easier.
Long live the herb and down with all other junk.

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Doctor My Eyes wrote:

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"Long live the herb and down with all other junk."
I agree, but my interest is mainly in the revenue it could generate.

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Doctor My Eyes wrote:

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"Long live the herb and down with all other junk."
I agree, but my interest is mainly in the revenue it could generate.

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ZimBoy wrote:

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Me too, I am actually in the process of slowing down on my herb consumption, I don’t smoke for a week or two and then I will have a bit of fun on a Saturday night when I smoke 1 joint, its working out really well.
Check this out, I figure a fair basic income for a family with 3 children in the USA would be around $40 000 a year.
Yes I know it isn’t a lot but all I am talking about is pulling people out of poverty and giving them the basics like food, housing, schooling and medical.
The marijuana industry in the USA is reputed to be worth around $17 billion a year, now if even the most useless business people took over the industry and it cost them $5 billion to grow the product and get it to market, shops, transport, etc.
That would leave $12 billion to help poverty stricken people.
Now if you give poverty stricken families $40 000 each a year that means with $12 billion we could take 300 000 families out of poverty and if the average family consisted of 2 adults and 3 children that would mean 1 500 000 people were given a much better life just because of herb sales.
Of course if the industry was run efficiently many more families could be helped, these fools who think that keeping marijuana illegal is a good idea are just that, fools.
And the real punch line is that they are never going to stop people from smoking it, talk about living in denial!

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Len in NY wrote:

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Not just the smokable herb, but the $600million that could go to American farmers instead of imports for industrial hemp.