they should sell hydroponics. then everyone would be happy...note that a pack of "marijuana lights" would be as cheap or even cheaper than a pack of cigs. why would a person go through growing all that when they could run to the convience store and have it rolled for them?
True, but you could theoretically do the same with tobacco. Or your own grain which you could then distill into liquor. Legalize it and let cororate America get in the game and, as with the other two examples, the finished product is readily available, at a lower cost than the DIY approach, and probably of a higher quality too.
Still looking one myself. Pm me if you are a dealer or know a dealer and live in Houston.
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possible dealer in houston?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3547765
I don't know if I could track him down now, but my freshman year in college my roommate (who was an uber-sheltered suburbanite richer WASP) decided that he and his pals were going to try weed. His hook up dropped by the dorm while he was out and if I didn't know any better I'd swear it was Towelly from South Park in disguise.
Marijuana will never be legalized because the prison system merry-go-round is a trillion dollar industry.
This kind of story pisses me off so much I need to fire one up!!
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/...ijuana_ff.html
40%... talk about a democracy
Yuuuup.
and you know most people lie about their usage in those surveys because they think Big Brother is after them
I'm curious to know the stats on when and where these people were being popped. Is Joe Schmo walking down the street smoking a J or are they on the road? That arrest number seems absurd to me.
Meth addicts must love pot heads. They keep the heat off them.
Ding ding ding!!
Damn who could fire one up in Spain??Washington, DC: Police arrested a record 872,721 persons for marijuana violations in 2007, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. This is the largest total number of annual arrests for cannabis ever recorded by the FBI.
Cannabis arrests now comprise nearly 47.5 percent of all drug arrests in the United States.
"These numbers belie the myth that police do not target and arrest minor cannabis offenders," said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre, who noted that at current rates, a cannabis consumer is arrested every 37 seconds in America. "This effort is a tremendous waste of criminal justice resources that diverts law enforcement personnel away from focusing on serious and violent crime, including the war on terrorism."
Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 89 percent, 775,138 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining 97,583 individuals were charged with "sale/manufacture," a category that includes all cultivation offenses, even those where the marijuana was being grown for personal or medical use. Nearly three in four of those arrested are under age 30.
"Present policies have done little if anything to decrease marijuana's availability or dissuade youth from trying it," St. Pierre said, noting young people in the U.S. now frequently report that they have easier access to pot than alcohol or tobacco.
"Two other major points standout from today’s record marijuana arrests: Overall, there has been a dramatic 195 percent increase in marijuana arrests in the last 15 years -- yet the public's access to pot remains largely unfettered and the self-reported use of cannabis remains largely unchanged. Second, America’s Midwest is decidedly the hotbed for cannabis arrests with over 60 percent of all cannabis-related arrests. The region of America with the least amount of cannabis arrests is the West with 29 percent. This latter result is arguably a testament to the passage of various state and local decriminalization efforts over the past several years."
"Of further note, this year the Midwest saw a 13.3% increase in cannabis sales/cultivation-related arrests, while the West saw a 14% increase in possession-related cannabis arrests."
The total number of marijuana arrests in the U.S. for 2007 far exceeded the total number of arrests in the U.S. for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
Annual marijuana arrests have nearly tripled since the early 1990s.
"Arresting hundreds of thousands of Americans who smoke marijuana responsibly needlessly destroys the lives of otherwise law abiding citizens," St. Pierre said, adding that nearly 9 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges in the past ten years. During this same time, arrests for cocaine and heroin have declined sharply, implying that increased enforcement of marijuana laws is being achieved at the expense of enforcing laws against the possession and trafficking of more dangerous drugs.In fact, October 10, 2008 will mark the arrest of the 20 millionth cannabis consumer arrested under cannabis prohibition, circa 1937.
St. Pierre concluded: "Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers between $10 billion and $12 billion annually and has led to the arrest of nearly 20 million Americans. Nevertheless, nearly 100 million Americans acknowledge having used marijuana during their lives. It makes no sense to continue to treat nearly half of all Americans as criminals for their use of a substance that poses far fewer health risks than alcohol or tobacco. A better and more sensible solution would be to tax and regulate cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol and tobacco."
No wonder Splitter wanted no part of USA. Euro's, beautiful women, good climate/ beaches, Weed, etc I know where Josh Howard is playing next!
im moving to spain and opening up a coffee shop
Legalize it and you have more automobile accidents. And people don't know to drive as it is.
I wonder if they'd start selling brown mix w/ weed inlcuded if they ever do legalize it.
What a massive waste of taxpayer maoney and people's lives.
Legalize and regulate it already, or at the very least decriminalize it. That works well here.
However, as timvp said, it will never happen due to all that vested money in the prison system. That's a great example of a service that should NOT have been be privatised.
eat that propaganda up.
Yep, more people might try weed once if it was legal, but nobody is gonna become a pot-head just because weed all of the sudden was legalized or decriminalized. Also, I agree with TIMVP, the prison system and the cops have a nice thing going, cops get to keep their cash-cow industry that pours millions of dollars in marijuna law enforcement and the prison system gets lots of cheap labor...drug tests are essentially marijuana tests because other drugs get metabolized by your system rather quickly, unless you are a serious heroin, crack, or coke addict...also private industry benefits because they make you take a drug test if you get hurt at work and will deny any benefits if you fail the test....
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