Effort building to change US pot laws
 

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130204/DA482F300.html

$50 an ounce tax???

:1orglaugh Blue manure

Shit... the kind was $350 an ounce back in 1995. I think those prices are still about the same, maybe cheaper. So add $50 to what base price? I don't think it's that big a deal. Now how do I get all the fines back that I had to pay when getting caught?

the cop lobby will never let their source of free pot go down...

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Just what I need. Something that could embolden me to smoke more weed.

they are taking steps in the right direction.

I'm not a pot smoker or a pot opponent, but it just seems really stupid not to allow industrial use of hemp.

It also seems stupid to demonize a plant that has actual healing properties and makes you feel good. Alcohol poisons people and turns them into assholes and its not only legal, but pushed in our faces with advertising. Pharm drugs are ok to push on people, even with all of the side effects and deaths they cause. But weed is this thing people still can't get over.

Its one of the biggest cases of brainwashing in the history of our society.

The cotton and timber industries played a big role in getting hemp plants included in the marijuana ban. Congress pushed it through even though smoking hemp doesn't make you high. It's really one of the worst cases of congress looking out for big business at the sacrifice of America.

Things may be different now that the textile industry has moved overseas and paper production isn't as sacred as it once was.

I remember when this song first came out, and legalization was just a pipe (bong) dream... :smokin



Legalize it! :thumbsup

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ADG

What would all the bored cops do that wont be able to bust kids for weed any more?

The for-profit prison industry will fight this hard. Actually, a lot of industries will..

fuck, there goes my discount....

I can't believe all these loser stoners actually want to pay more taxes. Fucking idiots.

Its not just that, cops love the fact that they can search any vehicle or person, and in some cases bust your front door down and all they have to claim is they smelled marijuana.

But, local governments are working hard to eliminate tobacco smoking for millions of existing users.......go figure.

How will they tax the greens I will grow in my basement and smoke all myself?

Me too, but im sure they will make it ridiculously illegal to grow it.

I'm very anti drug and don't smoke pot myself and even I can't figure out why it's illegal. Make it legal, tax it, and instead of paying for the housing of everyone arrested for pot related offenses set them free and let them pay taxes. Win win win.

Start investing ;)

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yeah. there may come a time where people who grow for themselves wish it was never legalized. or people who buy it legal think the price is too high.

A lot of good points, especially the fact alcohol is FARRRRR worse than weed. Yet that's legal.

As for the tax, $50 is nothing in comparison to what you already pay unless your dealer is an idiot or you buy in bulk (over 1lb at a time). Just saying.

Unless you own private prisons,
or your company/organization makes money from the $50bil/year 'War on (some) Drugs',
or you're in the timber/paper business
or you're in the textile business
etc
etc

Of course i agree with you, but in this country, making sense is out of fashion.:2 cents::disgust

Agreed. This is exactly why some great inventions never make it.