Is it worth $50 to you?

Would you donate $50 to a legalization effort that might actually work?

  • Yes

    Votes: 232 81.1%

  • No

    Votes: 54 18.9%
  • Total voters
    286
  • Poll closed .
BCtrippin

BCtrippin

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juicyjayz said:
and like previusly stated,legalicing and taxings it will compete and maybe even bankrupt major world wide industries...inlcluding plastics producing,artifical linens prodctuion,and yes recreational usgae of it..
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You really think a little competition from weed will bankrupt companies? I seriously doubt it. Who do you think will be the first ones to put weed into production? The major corporations who already have the Cash to set up the infrastructure.

You make weed sound like an "Economical Boogeyman"

oooooh scary, Weed products and Marijuana crashing Global Economies...:roll:

Your just falling for and spreading disinformation. I think the biggest reason it isnt legalized is because the Government doesnt like changing their mind. It makes them look weak. And if they change their mind now they have to admit that they wasted BILLIONS of dollars spaming Anti Weed campaigns..:lol:

And the government really doesnt want to release every non-violent offender who is in jail just for Weed. Again, it makes them look weak and ignorant....which is exactly what they are but they dont want you to know that or we might stand up and say...."Wait a second...Don't you work for Us?!??!"

The government is Not the problem. Regular people not doing anything about it is the problem. If America really wanted to get weed legalized it would have been done by now. People need to get out and vote, be more proactive.

People used to hold their governments accountable, and if they didnt like the government they would overthrow them. They got us so dumbed down and lazy now that no one cares, everyone just "goes with the flow"


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BCtrippin

BCtrippin

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Personally, I think the #1 reason Marijuana truly hasn't been legalized yet is because it can't be patented. It has nothing to do with taxes or economy.

The problem is that they can't have ALL the profit, it would be a free for all.

And even if they wanted to patent a THC derivative or extract they wouldnt be able to patent every single strain. Theres just too many strains, anyone could cross a couple plants and have a new strain. Theres no control for One company to own the whole marijuana industry. Thats freedom, Thats democracy, and Thats scarey to the Government.


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DubB83

DubB83

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BCTrippin said:
The government is Not the problem. Regular people not doing anything about it is the problem. If America really wanted to get weed legalized it would have been done by now. People need to get out and vote, be more proactive.

People used to hold their governments accountable, and if they didnt like the government they would overthrow them. They got us so dumbed down and lazy now that no one cares, everyone just "goes with the flow"
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I agree 200%

Ignorance, laziness, and the herd mentality all play hand in hand in the continued prohibition of marijuana.
 
mindphuk

mindphuk

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BCtrippin said:
Personally, I think the #1 reason Marijuana truly hasn't been legalized yet is because it can't be patented. It has nothing to do with taxes or economy.

The problem is that they can't have ALL the profit, it would be a free for all.

And even if they wanted to patent a THC derivative or extract they wouldnt be able to patent every single strain. Theres just too many strains, anyone could cross a couple plants and have a new strain. Theres no control for One company to own the whole marijuana industry. Thats freedom, Thats democracy, and Thats scarey to the Government.


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Come on, you just accused a poster of the same thing you are doing. Your argument is as much as a boogeyman as his. Legalization has nothing to do with intellectual property rights, which is the domain of patents. Even before Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 was passed, farmers still grew and bred different strains of crops and the lack of patents didn't seem to matter to them or the governmet. In fact, the ability to patent strains is actually something that excites Agribusiness as they are already in position to begin supplying patented strains to users.
Claiming that 'the government' wants a single company to control the industry goes against the antitrust laws that we already have in place. Keep in mind there that we, the people, are the government. The illusion of a separate entity occurs because of other individual citizens that work for us decide that they like the power which creates a divide between the politicos and the rest of the citizenry. I only bring that up because as long as we keep seeing things as a battle between 'us' and 'them' we'll lose. If we can re-assert the fact that they are merely employees at the mercy of the will of the people, we will win, just like what is happened in just about every new US election where there is a MJ ballot initiatives that pass with a mandate. Besides, in the post you made just before this one, you just admitted, 'the government is NOT the problem", so why did you in your next post make the comment about this 'being scary to the government' implying that's what is keeping up prohibition.
Maybe I misunderstood you, please elaborate.

I think the biggest hurdles (besides the LE and prison unions as I mentioned previously) are the soccer moms and extreme conservatives that continues to believe that it will harm 'the children' or that somehow legalization will
create a society where people will be driving and going to work stoned. I have heard people make idiotic statements like, "I don't want my airline pilot to smoke a joint then fly" as other such nonsense as if legalization would automatically make it permissible anywhere and anytime.
 
BCtrippin

BCtrippin

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mindphuk said:
I think the biggest hurdles (besides the LE and prison unions as I mentioned previously) are the soccer moms and extreme conservatives that continues to believe that it will harm 'the children' or that somehow legalization will
create a society where people will be driving and going to work stoned. I have heard people make idiotic statements like, "I don't want my airline pilot to smoke a joint then fly" as other such nonsense as if legalization would automatically make it permissible anywhere and anytime.
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I agree with you here. Disinformation has a lot to do with why its still illegal.

When I said "they" cant have all the profit, I wasn't referring to the "government"

If there was a single corporation that could own the whole marijuana industry they would lobby to get it legalized. But that wont happen because theres way too many strains of Marijuana to be able to own the whole industry or even a majority of it. Profit makes the world go round.


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