Off Topic Cannabis

All i got form this was that potheads run out of petrol and that's why we see cars on the side of the road

 

Eh?

 

pot heads drive along run out of petrol, stagger off laving their broken down rust buckets on the side of the road.

that's what that article said.

 

Right.

 

you pot heads have no sense of humour.

here look at my thumb its hilarious

 

Yeah. Looks like you've twatted the **** with a hammer(head)

 

If you weren't on pot you would have comprehended that.

 

**** off.

 

I think we can all agree that as long as some of the tax collected from legal mj is spent on towing the extra number of rusty cars off the roadsides there really is no reason not to legalise it.

 

suppose... AA will have a vested interest cos they'll get a lot more calls.

So this is "legalise" but don't "decriminalise" so that some faceless corporation can monopolise the supply and prevent home growers and a huge tax take is made possibel right?.

 

I would suggest if you make only small amounts for self consumption it shouldn't be taxed.

To sell it youd need a license and would be taxed. Sold stuff should be taxed and well regulated like tobacco and alcohol. Same age limit as alcohol provided too.


Most pot heads would be too lazy to grow their own though.

 

Yes.

 

RHC must be stoned. he didn't correct my terrible spelling.

 

If it's an exception to the norm he must be sober.

RHC is one of those rare people who gets mean when stoned.

 

oh right.. thats why he was begging for a supply earlier then... sober... wow..

 

I rarely do. I almost always make you an exception - a man apart, if you will

 

I'm truly touched.


Not like Jimmy Saville kind of touched now, let's be clear here. It's more like the kind of touched that comes from true bromance

 

Well it wouldn't be saville kind of love would it, you are both old ****ers

 

You're 40 you ****

 

The Mexican drug cartels are finally meeting their match as a wave of cannabis legalisation efforts drastically reshapes the drug trafficking landscape in the United States. It turns out that as states legalise cannabis use and cultivation, the volume of weed brought across the border by Mexican drug cartels dramatically decreases— and is putting a dent in their cash flow.

A newly-released statistical report from the U.S. Border Patrol shows a sharp drop-off in cannabis captured at the border between the United States and Mexico. The reduction in weed trafficking coincides with dozens of states embracing cannabis use for both medical and recreational purposes.

In fact, as the Washington Post reports, cannabis confiscations at the southern border have stumbled to the lowest point in over a decade — to only 1.5 million pounds. That’s down from a peak of four million pounds in 2009.

Speaking to Anti-Media, Amir Zendehnam, host of the popular show, “In the Clear with Amir” on cannabis-oriented network Z420.tv, told us what he thinks of these new statistics:

“The economics of the cannabis industry show us that with healthy competition in the market, prices drop, quality rises, violence diminishes, and peaceful transactions increase. As constant new research emerges detailing the plant’s benefits, the negative stigma of using cannabis, both medicinally and recreationally, is diminishing, raising the demand for high quality product.

“Colorado, for example, is experiencing an economic boom that has never been seen in the state. The biggest issue in Colorado today is what to do with the huge amounts of revenue and economic success the state is gaining as a result of legalisation. The Colorado model has proven that legalisation reduces crime rates, cuts prices, pushes unfavorable competition out of the market, provides cleaner products with heightened transparency, and increases the standard of living for society as a whole.

“The only people hurt by continued societal acceptance and legalisation of cannabis are the cartels and their friends, who have flourished for decades as a result of drug prohibition.

“As legalisation spreads across the U.S. and the rest of the world like wildfire, I predict the industry will soon become one of the most dominant and beneficial industries humanity has ever seen.”

And the new competition from legal states has taken a big bite out of the entire illicit Mexican marijuana food chain. “Two or three years ago, a kilogram [2.2 pounds] of marijuana was worth $60 to $90,” a cannabis farmer in Mexico said in an interview with NPR. “But now they’re paying us $30 to $40 a kilo. It’s a big difference. If the U.S. continues to legalise pot, they’ll run us into the ground.”

Consumers are also starting to see the difference. Cheap low-quality Mexican cannabis has become almost impossible to find in states that have legalised, while prices for high quality home-grown have steadily decreased.

This is good news for Mexico. A decreasing flow of cannabis trafficking throughout the country will likely lead to less cartel violence as revenues used to buy weapons dry up. Drug war-related violence in Mexico was responsible for an estimated 27,000 deaths in 2011 alone — outpacing the entire civilian death toll of the United States’ 15-year war in Afghanistan.

These developments reinforce criticism of the War on Drugs as a failed policy. Making substances like cannabis illegal simply drove the industry underground, helping make America the largest incarcerator in the world.

Legalising cannabis will also save the United States a great deal of money. As Mint Press News reported:

“Since Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in June 1971, the cost of that “war” had soared to over $1 trillion by 2010. Over $51 billion is spent annuallyto fight the drug war in the United States, according to Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting more humane drug policies.”

Early reports from Colorado’s cannabis tax scheme show that revenues that will ostensibly help schools and rehabilitation efforts by flooding the state with cash. In fact, Colorado became the first state to generate more tax revenue from cannabisthan alcohol in one year — $70 million.

But why stop with cannabis legalisation? As more and more drug propaganda is debunked thanks to the legal weed movement, it’s time to also advocate for drug legalisation across the board. The drug war’s criminalization of substances has done nothing to stem their use, and has simply turned addicts into criminals, even though plenty of experts agree that addiction is a health issue, not a criminal one.

Maybe it’s time for the U.S., Mexico, and other countries to embrace thePortugueseand Irish model of treating addiction to drugs like an addiction to alcohol or cigarettes, using rehabilitation — rather than incarceration — to confront the problem.