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Doug420

hello guys. I am a proud smoker for 3 years and have an opinion to add. Everyone i tlak to says " Fuck the government and laws, they should make it legal" This is true. It would be awsome if i could have a sack and a cop wont say shit BUT, The onyl reason the government would legalize marijuana is to make money. They would charge 25 for a gram and just tax u up the ass. Lets say they legalize marijuana. You walk into the liquer store and purchase an 1/8th for 65 dollars, BUT Johny down the street sells the same bud, the same weight for 45dollars, who are YOU going to buy your pot from? Of course, everyone will pick johny, being the cheap way to get the bud. So what is the point of the government egalizing marijuana if they dont get shit out of it? I do realize that some people dont know dealers to get the bud and some are just scared to deal iwth a "dealer" The government would amke Some money off of these poeple but not enough. Also, if marijuana was legal the cost of marijuana on the street would plummet. Over 50% of the cost of marijuana is becuase its hard to get and risky to grow. If you are taking the risk of growing this marijuana illegally, wouldnt you make it cost more? Think about this when yoyur very very stoned and dont post a reply unless your hella hyphy.


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1tokeovertheline

If that were the case people in my area should give it away.(some do now that I think of it. I haven't paid for weed in 10-15 years) Up here in NNY it is easy to get and everybody and their brother grows it. It used to be hard to get around Jan.- Feb. but now it is pretty much easy to get all year. State funding for school renovation jobs turned alot of high bay lights from gymnasiums into free grow lights. So I guess up here we smoke State funded marijuana

Doug420

i live in california..weed isnt that ubundent in the central valley

Plainsman1963

Back when alcohol was prohibited, people bought from folks making it in bathtubs and backyard gin mills. Paid a pretty penny too.

Prohibition was lifted, people buy at liquor stores, even though it would probably be cheaper to make your own or buy from someone that does.

Why would folks buy weed from a store and pay the taxes? Because it wouldn't be illegal. Going to johnny down the street has inherent risks. If you get taken, you have no legal recourse.
You don't know how they grew it, dried it or whether it is a good strain or not.

Buying from a legal outlet, you would have that oversight.

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Buzzby

If they charged too much for it, people would resort to the black market. If they taxed liquor so that a fifth of Scotch cost $150, people would buy from bootleggers. It would work the same way with marijuana. It's economics 101.

It's more like 95%. It's a plant, for God's sake! What other kind of plant costs $100 an ounce? Tobacco is much harder to grow and process than marijuana.

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Richi

That is exactly why it is not legal, because the governments knows they won’t get chit out of it. Instead, pharmaceutical companies are making billions, off of, for example, Prozac.

Buzz beat me to it, but yea, mint, oregano, Echinacea and marijuana are all herbs used medicinally and otherwise. Marijuana happens to be the easiest to grow out of all of them, out of almost all plants except dandelions. 100% of the price is the risk of getting it to the consumer.

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Walden

First of to address the issue of 50% of the cost of marijuana being its "riskiness". Keep in mind marijuana is a plant that grows out of the ground. There is a reason they call it weed. Its cost production is surely very low. Furthermore the government doesn't legalize things to make money off them. We live in a democratic society and as such we get to elect officials with similar opinions to our own with a rightful expectation that our voice is being heard. Marijuana has been legalized in like 14 states by that states legislature. If you can get 50% of the people to in America to be pro-legalization it would happen. Unfortunately the actual statistic is a lot smaller then 50%. As a result marijuana is still illegal. If time has shown us anything it shows that we are on the path to legalization of marijuana however it may take a while.

Buzzby

Eleven states have some degree of restricted legalization for medical marijuana.

Not necessarily. Nearly 80% of Americans surveyed are in favor of medical marijuana. Where's the federal legalization for medical marijuana?

Elections are not generally won on single issues and medical marijuana is an issue that falls way behind issues that are more important to most voters. Seeing that the pharmaceutical industry provides monetary support for politicians on both sides of the aisle, it is not likely that they'd abandon that campaign funding to support what is for most voters a fringe issue.

Around a third of voters surveyed favor the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes.

Richi

Are you kidding? Democratic society bullshit, no offence, but you definitely don’t live in the same world I live in. Governments are corrupt, end of story. They only, and ONLY do something when it is in monetary favour. And our voices are not heard, unless you are a multi-millionaire with your own spot on national TV, and only when you voice the opinion of your sponsors. No one will let you bad talk the people right up at the top of the power ladder, or the companies they hold stock in.

1tokeovertheline

I agree with that. It is corrupt right from the top to even the local level. I would like to see marijuana legalized, but I think you will see whores legalized first.