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Who cares about corporations? For me corporations have done nothing, but offered low paying jobs while the CEO gains mostly all the profit. They need to suffer to learn respect for the people busting butt to get somewhere when these same corporations turn their noses up at them. Its harmless and the American Indians used it also. Before America was taken over by Europeans it was used many ways by the American Indians. The Europeans created a law that would make it illegal to use.
Would you rather spend the money fighting a crime wave triggered by legalization?
There is already a crime wave because marijuana is semi legal, it creates crime by keeping it illegal, make it legal, and the price plummets and the incentive to grow is gone for there is no profit. The price would fall to less than $1000 a pound or even less than that and at that point growing it oneself is cheaper. The war on pot is corrupt with many police and sheriffs departments just using that war to rake in Federal money. The war on pot was in full force up here, but when the feds cut the $250,000 that the sherriffs department got to fight it, they cut back on their war and started focusing on real crime.
I am simply going by what happened in other countries in the same situation. Criminals flocked to Holland when they did it. Unfortunately the new crimes were more serious than the old ones.
We have Mexican nationals up here in our national forests growing pot in huge plots because it is illegal and the price is kept high, legalize it and the price plummetts and the Mexican nationals go away for the profit is gone. Just like prohibition did to alcohol, the war on pot is doing, it drives it underground, creates a crime atmosphere connected to it and the price goes up.
We have Mexican nationals up here in our national forests growing pot in huge plots because it is illegal and the price is kept high, legalize it and the price plummetts and the Mexican nationals go away for the profit is gone. Just like prohibition did to alcohol, the war on pot is doing, it drives it underground, creates a crime atmosphere connected to it and the price goes up.
What makes you think they would leave if we legalized it? This is EXACTLY the kind of faulty thinking the Dutch committed in 1970s. They were dead wrong, because the exact opposite happened.
What makes you think they would leave if we legalized it? This is EXACTLY the kind of faulty thinking the Dutch committed in 1970s. They were dead wrong, because the exact opposite happened.
Actually you're the one whose thought process is addled. Marijuana is a natural substance which when ingested becomes a foreign substance. Prescription drugs, which in many cases are made of chemical compounds that don't appear in nature, are artificial substances. Probably a good thing that you don't partake, if your sober mind has such a problem with this concept.
Hallelujah. It penetrated one of the burnouts. I am impressed.
Now if someone could comment on the cannabinoid receptors link I found but after one of the burnoutrs brought it up, I found where THC addles the brain.
The ignoring of that fact by the burnouts is very telling.
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