Are you getting letters for growing too much stinky weed? I'm not and we regularly mow our lawn because we are good neighbors. We don't leave broken down shit in our driveway either.
Cars have been proven to kill people whereas cannabis has not.
Is your personal residence inspected? Probably not because you are an owner. You think its bad try being a renter. We don't need another fucking inspection.
Why would it get shut down on the spot? Are you doing something illegal? That is why we don't need weed inspectors who can just come in and shut us down.
You try not paying your taxes and see what happens.
Why can we just have parents who actually know how to fucking parent? I personally don't give a fuck about anyone elses children. I had plenty of opportuinty to be a stoner kid. Seriously I coulda lit up at 4 if I really was inclined too. However I wait until I was older. Take this save the kids talk and hang out with Jerry Falwell.
And send people to prison too right? Sounds like a plan. Let's call it the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act. This could be really good. No not everyone will be able to be fully legal and grow and sell and just follow the directions. The permitting under the proposed legislation would be up to local authorities. Yay thats great, except for you know what, they are going to gouge people for them, and they will make sure people like me who have felonies cannot grow or sell on a commericial level.
Yes. They do.
But if cultivation and sale of marijuana is completely legal, the vast majority of it will be cultivated by farmers as a cash crop on their farmland. Not by gardeners gardening in their backyards.
Hence the later comment re: Tractors. Ball Caps and Drain to waste farming. As a commercial enterprise, that undertaking is more properly reflected in the word agriculture (though both technically apply).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture
Bullshit? Nope. I don't think so. I think it's a balls on accurate prediction of who the producers in a legal marijuana market would look like. Because they'll be farmers, not suburban stoners.
It appears that you disagree. Yes, yes - "power to the people" and all that. But if you can get past your ideological position and perhaps think about the economic implications of a truly legal cannabis plant, commercial competition and the means of production used to produce a legal crop efficiently? Once you manage that, it is difficult to disagree with my prediction on any rational basis.
Absolutely.
Obviously, the entire thrust of my posts have been to denigrate cannabis and to decry its very existence. I have plainly and obviously crafted the argument that only commercial exploitation of the plant by the Very Very BIG BIG BIG Corporation or America can rescue cannabis and restore it to its proper place in human history.
Or...or it could be that you have not read what I have written very carefully. On reflection, what do you think?
Are you actually reading what I'm writing or just too pissed off to care at this stage? *shrug*
I think that municipal authorities elected by its residents have a valid recognized legislative interest in controlling land use. That they are empowered as a matter of law to restrict and prevent commercial agriculture from being conducted from residentially zoned land. Because commercial agriculture is to be carried on in agriculturally zoned property. That's what zoning is for.
Fact is, municipalities have often and frequently exercised that legislative power to prevent homeowners from keeping smelly livestock within residentially zoned property. It's well settled law. You think farming skunky marijuana is likely to be handled differently when you are trying to grow it on a commercial scale? I don't think so.
That does not mean that you cannot grow legal marijuana in your backyard in this theoretical future. It does not mean that some local council's definition of a "commercial purpose" in terms of plant limits on growing marijuana on residential zoned property is not open to abuse. It probably will be abused, too, initially. I agree with you on that point. But that's why we have courts and appeals from zoning decisions.
To suggest a municipality could stop personal use gardening under such a legislative power, however, is incorrect. They have absolutely no authority to stop something like that through zoning.
Seems to me, that if you wanted to grow marijuana on a commercial scale as a legal cash crop -- the place to do that would be on a farm, not in the suburbs. You want to farm? Go and farm man - nobody stopping you in this theoretical new world.
I also expect that in an economic environment where commercial cannabis would be grown by the acre, your ability to economically compete with farmers using only your backyard is ... more than a little optimistic and borders on hubris.
That said, quality and loving attention to detail does have its place and would be valued by connoisseurs. *shrug*
Oh please. Give me a break. Folks like you think in theories and hold tight to ideologies that simply don't work in reality. I commend you for staying loyal to your ideas but it's, at best, naive to stick with them so harshly.
You complain about taxes but what are you doing to fight besides run your fingers in a forum and PAY TAXES? You complain about big business but what do you do besides run your fingers in a forum and BUY THEIR SHIT? In fact, how many name brand items do you have in your house right now. What are you typing on? Who's your internet provider? I don't want to know but I want YOU to realize big business is stamped all over your soul whether you like it or not. And, everything in there including the clothes on your back was taxed.
At any rate, I knew when I read the original post, this was some "tea party"-ish nonsense. I picked up on that quickly. Sure enough, it's turned into a bitch rant about taxes.. TAXES, TAXES, TAXES.
You guys don't care about marijuana legalization.
You just don't want to pay taxes. Fine with me. I respect that. And, as I've told tea party folks before, if you don't like taxes, STOP PAYING TAXES. If you don't like the govt, FIGHT THE GOVERNMENT. If you don't want to support big business, DON'T SUPPORT BIG BUSINESS. If you're too scared to do any of those things, MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTRY. But please.. please.. please.. STOP BITCHING.
You won't get support from people who live in the real world and you won't get any from me.
And, don't assume to know me or know who I work for because I support regulation and taxation as a pathway to legalization. I just live in the real world. And in the real world, nothing is going to stop big business from taking over the marijuana industry once legalized. But, I DON'T CARE. I will continue to grow my own in spite of any laws AS WE ALL ALREADY DO.
As far as I am concerned, there is no war within the marijuana community. That is so far from the truth it's laughable. If there is a war, it's folks like you and Jack fermenting it for no real reason.
Just don't screw over the marijuana legalization movement because your greed is keeping you from seeing the big picture.
That's all I am going to say on that. I'll unsubscribe from this nonsensical thread after this post. "We" don't deserve to be bothered with this.
PS. I have to go back to my employers now LOL.
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