Sponsor |  Klassy | Mar 17, 11:21pm | 576: In this video clip, Adi Shankara and his disciples praise Annapoorna, the Goddess of Food.
youtube.com/watch [youtube.com/watch]
577: "The signature of the epoch is the preponderance of the relations of production over the productive forces, which have nonetheless mocked these relations for some time. That the extended arm of humanity can reach to distant and empty planets, but that it cannot create peace on Earth, highlights the absurdity, towards which the social dialectic is moving," writes Theodore Adorno.
Also.
drugscience.org/Archive/bcr2/cashcrops.html [drugscience.org/Archive/bcr2/cashcrops.html]
Marijuana is now the States' #1 cash crop.
1. Marijuana $35,803,591
2. Corn $23,299,601
3. Soybeans $17,312,200
4. Hay $12,236,638
5. Vegetables $11,080,733
6. Wheat $7,450,907
7. Cotton $5,314,870
8. Grapes $2,876,547
9. Apples $1,787,532
10. Rice $1,706,665
"Based on a comparison with average production values of other crops from 2003 to 2005 marijuana is the top cash crop in 12 states, one of the top 3 cash crops in 30 states, and one of the top 5 cash crops in 39 states. Marijuana is the largest cash crop in Alaska, Alabama, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
Domestic marijuana production often takes place in marginal areas not usually associated with agricultural production. In addition to indoor cultivation in trailers, closets, basements, and attics marijuana is grown outdoors along fence lines, in forests, on other public lands, in undeveloped rural countryside areas, and on other parts of private land generally inaccessible and unseen by the public."
You guys realize that full legalization would most likely be catastrophic for growers? |
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|  Zephyr-The-Zeph | Mar 18, 5:37am | | 579: Probably, THC would become OTC. It would do the same thing as it did to speakeasies after the 30's. |
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Sponsor | | Klassy | Mar 18, 8:15am | 580: Then Big Corn, formerly known as Big Oil, would now usher the era of Big Grass.
I'm still completely for full legalization of marijuana though. I mean, sure, it would make its market value go crashing down. Less weed farmers would make actual profit in the black market. The crash would hurt thousands of growers.
But think of it as a venue for an agro-revolution: a home-growing explosion to make up for it. That's really what this is all about.
I imagine Humboldt County would be the new Wall Street. Their economy would go entirely to pot.
If legalization does happen, kids, pack your bags and spark a blunt on your way to the Promised Land.
I suddenly feel very patriotic, and I'm not even American. lulz. |
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Sponsor | | Perko | Mar 18, 9:23am | 581: More likely, it would be Big Tobacco. If pot is legalized, it will be in an extremely commercialized setting (it's the american way! :( )The government here isn't ever going to allow pot without heavy regulation and taxation. Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds and their evil ilk are the only ones who currently have the apparatus in place to jump these hurdles, I'm afraid.
Think of those poor black market farmers. And the Amsterdam tourism industry. :p |
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Sponsor | | Klassy | Mar 18, 9:37am | 582: Agreed. I seem to have overlooked that. Oh well, I can foresee it all now:
"I decided to pocket all the money myself. I'm posting this from Amsterdam."
- an ex-black market farmer
lulz |
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Sponsor | | AlternaDad | Mar 18, 9:41am | I hear the tobacco companies already have brand names for their weed trademarked.
Nice link for Humboldt there! My family and I wand to move there some day. California is beautiful, but I'm tired of Los Angeles. |
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Sponsor | | Klassy | Mar 18, 9:43am | 584: I anticipate the introduction of Weed Menthols to the market.
Eww. What would that taste like? |
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Sponsor | | Bunty | Mar 18, 5:41pm | 582: Which is the best argument against legalisation. It takes it out of the free (albeit illegal, if one considers that a factor) innately socialist market, and into the State/Capitalist one.
It's a tossup, the legalisation of hemp (non PCP) would probably be good overall, but so is getting people to question the Rules. |
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| | Zephyr-The-Zeph | Mar 18, 6:37pm | | 584: Its nice here now. But seriously, Move back to California during the Winter, Its megadepression. |
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Sponsor | | Kibiyama | Mar 18, 7:11pm | "You guys realize that full legalization would most likely be catastrophic for growers?"
Hah, I had never thought of that. Irony, that to actually accomplish anything in this "war on drugs", they should call it off altogether.
A question, then. If they want to strike a moral blow to these heathens, and they also stand to make a bunch of money for their rich friends (and stop wasting taxpayer dollars), why don't they go for it?
Do they fear a backlash of fundies? I imagine all the fundies already vote anyways, rabid as they are.
They could cover their loses by pulling in the apathetic John Q Public and Stoney McBluntsmoker.
Conspiracy mode: They already make enough money off of the prisons, and they want to prevent the radical element from having a say in the political process (as if they did before!) and preventing their Neo-Nazi plans of world domination. Also, being able to produce your own supply is blasphemy in a consumerist culture.
y/n?
On a tangential note: Anyone here tried salvia divinorum? |
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