Cali to Legalize Pot?

[GAR]

If it had to be packaged a certain way with a tax stamp
people would reuse the packaging.

Requiring virtually no equipment for processing plant into drug, unreported taxes would yield a defecit because the California State legislators would do like they did all this decade by spending the "windfall" and then cry defecit when it doesn't show up in revenue.

They did this the full past 5 years. They said "ah we have surplus from all the house flipping" and projected huge surpluses so they could then go spend it off.

Then when it didn't show up, it was a headscratcher to all. After all, they projected a windfall didn't they? So where was the money, nobody knew and still doesn't know so they rob the dough from all the other programs such as Federal Highway funds which they've snaked 6 billion dollars the last 7 years to throw into the General fund, they stole from the Motor Vehicle and Fuel Use taxes for the General which all 3 funds were supposed to support extra freeway lanes and highway maintenance yet this year nothing's been dones besides the 405 expansion lane which we've been crying over 20 years for and it's still not finished.

California Democratic-controlled legislature is a has-been continual failure who achieve nothing, harbor illegal aliens, spend us to defecit and cannot be trusted to do anything they say they're gonna do.

A legalization of marijuana based on "projected" revenues unseen and untested on an unsafe public hazard is a ridiculous notion only propagated by the foolish, the high or the ignorant.

[Panamark]

"Conditional" legalization just allows the government to be the dealers
instead of the crims...

[GAR]

Yeah, if you're gonna legalize something, let's grow coca!

It's pretty hard to screw up growing coca, the strength doesn't range all over the place and if it was legal, they'd use ether in the reduction to cocaine like they did in the old days, instead of fuckin' diesel fuel, gasoline, acetone, MEK, and other petroleum-based products like they do now.

[Jesus Christ]

Man made pills, My Dad made pot.
Dad is perfect, man is not.

Whom do ye trust?

[GAR]

Not the California legislature!

[Angel]

That statement should be enough for a ban at a Dave Lee Roth site...

Damn - all out of Thanks. Thanks, Sesh - great post!

[Seshmeister]

Man made pills, My Dad made pot.
Dad is perfect, man is not.

Whom do ye trust?

What does that even mean?

Why don't you go stick your head in a smallpox ridden shark...

[bastardson]

Not that many people brew their own beer or make their own wine...

That requires work.
Ever grow pot?
A few seeds in a house plant and you got pot plants.
A couple plants with a little care can yield all you
need.
I've gotten six ounces of killer bud from one small plant.
A full size plant could yield pounds of bud.
Other than water all I used was super bloom.
One box lasts for years.

[Guitar Shark]

That requires work.
Ever grow pot?
A few seeds in a house plant and you got pot plants.
A couple plants with a little care can yield all you
need.
I've gotten six ounces of killer bud from one small plant.
A full size plant could yield pounds of bud.
Other than water all I used was super bloom.
One box lasts for years.

For your sake, I certainly hope the authorities in San Jose are not reading this.

[Seshmeister]

That requires work.
Ever grow pot?
A few seeds in a house plant and you got pot plants.
A couple plants with a little care can yield all you
need.
I've gotten six ounces of killer bud from one small plant.
A full size plant could yield pounds of bud.
Other than water all I used was super bloom.
One box lasts for years.

I was forgetting your climate there.

[bastardson]

For your sake, I certainly hope the authorities in San Jose are not reading this.

Or "Bakersfield ".

[FORD]

Nobody ever crashed a car high on tortillas or chips that I know of..

You wouldn't know of it, because it's not likely they would test for it. But when you consider the reality that bleached flour and high fructose corn syrup are so refined that they are absorbed immediately into the bloodstream, it is entirely medically possible for someone to pass out behind the wheel and crash their car from too many processed carbs in their system.

[ODShowtime]

When I read this just now in yahoo I got so excited that I was going to post it here, but Nicky is still ahead of the game.

One of the reasons I was so pissed when gw was re-elected was that I knew it would be at least another 5 years before there could be any chance at pot freedom. I cannot believe the wall could finally be cracking. I would seriously consider moving to a state like CA if I didn't have to worry about getting busted all the time. And be able to obtain elite quality herb consistently at a reasonable price. Too bad that state is all jacked up

[Coyote]

Monsanto Frankenweed would probably give you "restless leg syndrome" (whatever the fuck that is)

After a few generations of Frankenweed, it will revert back to its natural form.

[Redballjets88]

How many great microbreweries exist on the West Coast? Alcohol regulation doesn't interfere with that. If marijuana was regulated in a similar way, maybe there would be "microgroweries"?

The bigger problem would be keeping agripigs like Monsanto or ADM from trying to muscle out the small family pot farmers like they do every other crop. Or Phillip Morris, who would no doubt love an excuse to leave the tobacco business behind, if they could replace it with something as profitable.

I haven't smoked dope in years, but I wouldn't want genetically modified Monsanto Frankenweed, or radioactive tainted Phillip Morris weed on the market.

point is though that the hemp plant - in all its forms - is just a tragically underused resource in this country, and it's mostly because of corporate greed from industries afraid of the competition.

I agree totally, people will grow, but the companies that jump on this will rule the roost.

It's a matter of patience when growing. Most people would be more willing to go out and buy a pack of Marlboro Joints than wait for a plant to grow.

I bet a lot a pot heads will start to grow a plant, then smoke out and forget about growing. Stoners are known to be absent minded.

The only thing that irks me about this is that; all over the country cigarette bans are happening non stop, smokers are getting their asses kicked (figuratively speaking) everywhere they go, but pot is becoming legalized? What the fuck is wrong with people. Decide what you want to do with the smokable products already. (even though pot will probably be banned everywhere except in private residence)