why is weed illigal???

[Vudak]

Zazen,

I assume from your studies you realize just how much of a smell a growing marijuana plant gives off?  I kind of doubt that's going to fly well with the wife/neighbor/town ordinance ack...  Some people will grow it, sure, but I hardly think the majority of its smokers will.

[Zazen13]

Zazen,

I assume from your studies you realize just how much of a smell a growing marijuana plant gives off?  I kind of doubt that's going to fly well with the wife/neighbor/town ordinance ack...  Some people will grow it, sure, but I hardly think the majority of its smokers will.

Do a google search for "Negative pressure rooms" and "Scent air filtration systems"

[VansCrew1]

Illegal or not it's easy to get. If the government was smart the would legalise it and tax it, they could get the country out of dept real fast. 

[Elfie]

I smoked weed for years and never once hallucinated......

[Zazen13]

Illegal or not it's easy to get. If the government was smart the would legalise it and tax it, they could get the country out of dept real fast. 

The problem is...

6) Govt seizure of private property indirectly associated with marijuana indictments exceeds the street value of the drug seized itself more than 100 fold.

That doesn't even include revenue generated from from fines levied. So, in a way, the fact that it is readily available on the "black market" and is relatively inexpensive as far as contraband goes makes keeping it illegal actually more lucrative for the Government than taxing its decriminalized commercial production and sale.

[Zazen13]

I smoked weed for years and never once hallucinated......

Hallucination doesn't necessarily mean seeing pink elephants ballet dancing across your field of vision. Hallucination is any alteration in the subjective perception of stimuli. For example, time distortion. A lot of test subjects reported that marijuana produced a phenomena known as time dilation or temporal inflation. What seems like 30 minutes subjectively is actually just 2 minutes in real time. The exponential increase in cascading associative mental connections to sensory information across both hemispheres of the brain distorts the perception of time's passage. The same thing is noted in the course of lucid dreaming, subjects report dreams that seemed to last an hour, but in real time lasted only 30 seconds. Of course the THC concentration of the substance will play a role in how noticeable the hallucinatory effects of marijuana are.

[FX1]

This topic reminds me that I need to call my drug dealer.
My wife needs her weed so I can have peace for one night.   
Also she gets very horny so I have no problem paying for her fix.

[VansCrew1]

I smoked weed for years and never once hallucinated......

Sould try what i got...it will make you think your back in WW2  .

[Elfie]

Sould try what i got...it will make you think your back in WW2  .

 

[Baitman]

Weed cures Hyperactivity syndrome

[VansCrew1]

Think of it this way smoking weed will prevent glaucoma in the future. It's like a flu shot before flu season...it's just 100 times better.

[Steve]

Steve, I don't want to turn this into an agricultural symposium. But, again, tomatoes are extremely land intensive to produce, difficult to harvest and very prone to insects, disease and rodents. A very small fraction of them are consumed in their unprocessed form. They also deplete the topsoil so must be rotated with other less lucrative crops. Tomatoes also have a very brief period of edibility. Marijuana on the other hand can be stored almost indefinitely without diminishing the quality further raising the supply vs. demand curve...

I could list a hundred other crops that one can grow but that there is still a market for. My point is that you are just plain wrong that it would be hard to control a pot market.  Simply issue licenses to grow and/or sell it. Unlicensed distribution would reulst in heavy fines/ jail. It's easy to Burn CD's but there is still a market for them.

BTW, you are worng about tomatos. If you eat a tomato, take a dump in the woods and comeback a few weeks later, you will have tomato plants. The seeds survive digestion. The plants are no more susceptible to pests and other hazards than any other vine. It's easy to grow a nice garden in your back yard. One with plenty of crop production to feed a family. You are just plain wrong about your land intensive BS.

[Vudak]

Do a google search for "Negative pressure rooms" and "Scent air filtration systems"

I thought the argument for people growing their own was based on the cost of doing so being less than what the government charged/taxed product would be?

Again, if you have to go to all the trouble to do all that, who will bother?  A few people, sure, but not the majority...

[Zazen13]

I could list a hundred other crops that one can grow but that there is still a market for. My point is that you are just plain wrong that it would be hard to control a pot market.  Simply issue licenses to grow and/or sell it. Unlicensed distribution would reulst in heavy fines/ jail. It's easy to Burn CD's but there is still a market for them.

BTW, you are worng about tomatos. If you eat a tomato, take a dump in the woods and comeback a few weeks later, you will have tomato plants. The seeds survive digestion. The plants are no more susceptible to pests and other hazards than any other vine. It's easy to grow a nice garden in your back yard. One with plenty of crop production to feed a family. You are just plain wrong about your land intensive BS.

A) It's not the plant but the berry that is prone to pests.
B) There's a huge difference between a backyard garden and massive scale cultivation.
C) Having this argument with you is kind of pointless, boring and hypothetical. You are welcome to whatever opinion you want, until it actually becomes legal it's just an opinionated guess.

[Zazen13]

I thought the argument for people growing their own was based on the cost of doing so being less than what the government charged/taxed product would be?

Again, if you have to go to all the trouble to do all that, who will bother?  A few people, sure, but not the majority...

It's not expensive.