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SamIam · 11-07-2012, 10:57 PM

The party's still going on here in Colorado. My next door neighbor figures that as long as he doesn't toke up in a National Park, the Feds are nothing to worry about. My other next door neighbor dropped by with some of the best weed I've ever smoked. My friend Jim thinks we should get in on the ground floor and once the rules for commercial growers have been set out by the department of revenue, we should get the paperwork and go into the biz.

If I did, I would actually be following in the steps of my grandfather who devoted a portion of his farm back in Kentucky to the cultivation of hemp as a part of the war effort back in WWII. My patriotic grandfather could never there after completely eradicate the weed from his fields. I can remember how irritated he'd get when kids from Eastern University (which was right over the farm's south boundary) would trample his tobacco plants in their quest to score a free high.

It's taken about 67 years for it to become legal again. 67 years of wasted effort and tax payer dollars and the rise of the Mexican marijuana cartels - all over a plant that can be made into some pretty sturdy rope but is put to far better use when smoked to get on a nice, relaxed buzz.

I think society is ready to change it's all or nothing thinking when it comes to pot. You never hear about some guy getting stoned, then beating up the wife and kids. I've encountered any number of mean drunks, but I've never met a mean stoner. There's no pot equivalent of crack cocaine or meth that I'm aware of, anyhow. Pot was never a problem when legal, but making pot illegal has caused society any number of problems , not the least of which is the rise of a set of ruthless criminals right on our southern borders.

If the US legalized pot and allowed growers to get licenses to grow it commercially, the Mexican marijuana cartel problem would all but vanish; state governments would get some badly needed income from new taxes that even a Tea Bagger couldn't object to; and law enforcement resources would be freed up to go after the substances that actually do cause considerable harm.

I think the Feds will begin to see reason, and I bet it won't take them another 67 years, either.

11-07-2012, 10:57 PM	#15
SamIam Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Not here Posts: 2,655	The party's still going on here in Colorado. My next door neighbor figures that as long as he doesn't toke up in a National Park, the Feds are nothing to worry about. My other next door neighbor dropped by with some of the best weed I've ever smoked. My friend Jim thinks we should get in on the ground floor and once the rules for commercial growers have been set out by the department of revenue, we should get the paperwork and go into the biz. If I did, I would actually be following in the steps of my grandfather who devoted a portion of his farm back in Kentucky to the cultivation of hemp as a part of the war effort back in WWII. My patriotic grandfather could never there after completely eradicate the weed from his fields. I can remember how irritated he'd get when kids from Eastern University (which was right over the farm's south boundary) would trample his tobacco plants in their quest to score a free high. It's taken about 67 years for it to become legal again. 67 years of wasted effort and tax payer dollars and the rise of the Mexican marijuana cartels - all over a plant that can be made into some pretty sturdy rope but is put to far better use when smoked to get on a nice, relaxed buzz. I think society is ready to change it's all or nothing thinking when it comes to pot. You never hear about some guy getting stoned, then beating up the wife and kids. I've encountered any number of mean drunks, but I've never met a mean stoner. There's no pot equivalent of crack cocaine or meth that I'm aware of, anyhow. Pot was never a problem when legal, but making pot illegal has caused society any number of problems , not the least of which is the rise of a set of ruthless criminals right on our southern borders. If the US legalized pot and allowed growers to get licenses to grow it commercially, the Mexican marijuana cartel problem would all but vanish; state governments would get some badly needed income from new taxes that even a Tea Bagger couldn't object to; and law enforcement resources would be freed up to go after the substances that actually do cause considerable harm. I think the Feds will begin to see reason, and I bet it won't take them another 67 years, either.