What is the benefit of recreational marijuana use in this state...? (2014, school)

[Elk Wallow]

What are the benefits? I voted for it reduce the market for people to make money dealing drugs. People can just grow their own and smoke it at home.

[OldSoulInANewBody]

What are the benefits? I voted for it reduce the market for people to make money dealing drugs. People can just grow their own and smoke it at home.

Well, Elk. You're not wrong. But, this is America. Where people want their fixes and they want it now. Black market drug dealers will still be selling weed. And it will still be profitable to them. So, if someone wanted to grow their own, they'd still have to wait several months before they could harvest their plants, and then they have to dry and they have to cure. Which if done correctly, will take another month or so. Most people don't want to take that much time or put in that much effort just to get high. Most adults will likely just go to the nearest pot shop and buy a bag. But what about the underage smokers? There are quite a bit of underage potheads. They will still have to acquire their weed through illegal means. So either having an older friend head over to the shop (likely for a cut/bribe), or they could just go to their local drug dealer and buy a bag there and get smoked out while they are there.

I'm just saying that it's not likely that it will reduce the need much in the black market.

[sorupaa]

If there's a store where your buying weed from or a guy selling it off the street I'd take the store. Get someone over 21 to buy it instead of getting ripped off or getting laced

[Elk Wallow]

I think grow your own will make less demand for the black market. How could it not? My queston if you want to light up your homegrown on July 1st, where are you supposed to get the seeds ?

As far as buying it, I would like to buy a can of Willie Weed (Willy Nelson, from Texas) He is working with "top growers" on "quality control".

[PNW-type-gal]

Even if Oregon has legalized weed, there is still incentive for illegal grows in our state for California and other states. In one of the Oregonian articles on the topic, I read that something like 90% of the pot grown in Oregon (via the big illegal grows in the forests) is shipped to other states. Also, if you look at the Colorado and Washington systems, pot is still substantially cheaper on the underground market than the legal variety is.

[sorupaa]

Northern Cali is the best place to grow it. pot needs a lot of sun and Portland isn't that good of a place to grow it. This year would have been good to grow it though, weird year

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by drum bro

Northern Cali is the best place to grow it. pot needs a lot of sun and Portland isn't that good of a place to grow it. This year would have been good to grow it though, weird year

If they can grow it in Alaska, they can grow it in Portland.

[sorupaa]

They can? I though it just grew in warmer sunnier places

[lucky4life]

The law prevents people from getting in legal trouble for simply smoking pot. It's a good bill. Sending people to jail for smoking pot is pretty ridiculous.

With that being said, private companies can do whatever they want. If they don't want to hire pot smokers, then so be it. The biggest problem employers have with pot is that so many people that smoke it, do it on the job. While alcohol is worse for you and causes people to do more crazy stuff, it's pretty hard to get away with getting drunk on the job. That, and if you had an addiction to booze that required you to drink at work, you could never hold a real job in the first place. This means that employers don't care if people drink because they assume that it's not happening on the clock.

Marijuana on the other hand, is super easy to smoke all day long without getting caught for any real stoner. As someone that used to smoke a ton of weed, I can tell you that pretty much every real pothead I knew then and know now, smokes on the job, drives stoned, and engages in a ton of other activities that one should be sober while doing on a daily basis. Add to this that about 1 out of 3 people that smoke the herb are "potheads." People will deny this, and I'll most likely get flamed for saying this, but it's 100% true and employers know this.

That's why most "real" jobs require a pee test for Marijuana.


Flame on stoners! lol

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by drum bro

They can? I though it just grew in warmer sunnier places

It does pretty well in greenhouses during the summer and in some outdoor locations (don't forget that Alaska gets a lot more hours of daylight than the -48) but most people who grow it just use grow lights. If you're only doing it for yourself, the electricity doesn't add up to much. Haven't you ever heard of this kind?

http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Matanuska_Thunder****

I hope I don't get in trouble for posting this, but it's almost legal now so it should be okay. Or something like that.