Marijuana could Rebuild Haiti!
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Cannabis could help many impoverished nations! I went to Malawi a couple years ago (the poorest nation in Africa), and they would be a completely different country if cannabis were legal. It's hard to imagine that that one plant could reform a country's economy, but it's true. Every part of the plant is used when grown for industrial purposes, and that means quite a lot of income. Haiti is no different.
That's why I have such a hard time with all the folks who think they're making a difference when they give $10 to a relief effort after a natural disaster. They're willing to give $10, but when it's time to vote, they vote for a mainstream politician who supports the war on drugs! They don't have any understanding of long term vs. short term improvements.
That's why I have such a hard time with all the folks who think they're making a difference when they give $10 to a relief effort after a natural disaster. They're willing to give $10, but when it's time to vote, they vote for a mainstream politician who supports the war on drugs! They don't have any understanding of long term vs. short term improvements.
Croissant
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Beside the Earthquake problems in Haiti have to do have to do mainly with International corporations and corrupt leaders selling out the country when the country tried to make a reform democratically the corporations didnt like that a sponsored a coup to put another puppet in place.
SoloGro57
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It'd definitely require a popular revolution. A vast majority of the people would have to want to do it, and be willing to make themselves heard to make any kind of change in Haiti, I would think that the majority of those living on the island would have to make their will known. Isn't it possible that the hell that the survivors have seen would inspire them to do something to make their lives less hellish in the future?
You've heard of Banana Republics... Imagine Haiti as the first Hemp Republic.
I dunno.... maybe I should just take a toke break. This F-13 is awesome tho.
You've heard of Banana Republics... Imagine Haiti as the first Hemp Republic.
I dunno.... maybe I should just take a toke break. This F-13 is awesome tho.
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also doctors without borders has bean complaining about the fact that us army equipment and flights have been given priority at the airport, over medical supplies since the US took over the running of the airport.
Earthquake aside...there is no such thing as a innocent citizen in a democracy.
Yep, the entire Island could be covered in marijuana, and it wouldn't help them one bit.
wrong....we would buy it so they can get away from that damned place
So you are obviously talking about ''illegal'' production...so what's stoping them right now ? Not a well thought out argument...unless you can prove me wrong (a good argument will do)..
It's due to change, now that Uncle Sam has sent the troops. Haiti's oil reserves (heaps) and deep-water ports are soon to be secured by the US thanks to the earthquake, and there will be soon some pretty big money to be made if you're in oil, construction or security business.
Irie !
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DogBoy
It's not the oil, this time it is untapped mineral resources like gold and copper and a banking industry in ruins. A great place to dispose of bad debt.
actually, there are no oil reserves in haiti. there is bauxite, gold and copper in limited amounts.
i have flown over the center of the island of hispanola and you can see the political boundary between haiti and the dom rep from 30,000 ft because the are few trees on the haitian side. the dominican side is lush and green and the haitian side is brown, dry, and washed out from no erosion control. very little topsoil. the trees were cut down by the locals to make charcoal for cooking over hundreds of years. they don't have enough arable land to even produce food, much less cannabis.
i have flown over the center of the island of hispanola and you can see the political boundary between haiti and the dom rep from 30,000 ft because the are few trees on the haitian side. the dominican side is lush and green and the haitian side is brown, dry, and washed out from no erosion control. very little topsoil. the trees were cut down by the locals to make charcoal for cooking over hundreds of years. they don't have enough arable land to even produce food, much less cannabis.
SoloGro57
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There must be some way to do something about that. I don't know how it could be done. Dumping biodegradable waste on the barren land? Agricultural waste... yard clippings? Load it onto barges and spread it with helicopters!
Dimebagg
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Are you suggesting covering an entire island with compost? Can you even fathom how many helicopter trips it would take to even cover a square mile with enough good compost to entirely resculpt a good growing platform? Much less an entire island?
There are huge copters out there if you look at the logging business, but thats the most far fetched idea yet.
There is an old African saying that describes the people of Haiti, the kind of people who don't look ahead.
Goes something like- you're so dumb you ate your yam seeds.
Nuke Haiti and be done with it.
Really not much more to be said about a people who gained their 'independence' by slaughtering as brutally as their imaginations could think of ways, every white person on the island.
No sympathy for them.
How would selling weed to each other and them being stoned, oh yeah, they already are.
Remember the pics on the news a few years back of mobs of Haitian citizens beating people to death in the streets with small sticks? Great people!
Goes something like- you're so dumb you ate your yam seeds.
Nuke Haiti and be done with it.
Really not much more to be said about a people who gained their 'independence' by slaughtering as brutally as their imaginations could think of ways, every white person on the island.
No sympathy for them.
How would selling weed to each other and them being stoned, oh yeah, they already are.
Remember the pics on the news a few years back of mobs of Haitian citizens beating people to death in the streets with small sticks? Great people!
SoloGro57
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Well im not suggesting covering the whole island.... just a few large spots.
Seems to me that would be enuf to get nature moving in the right direction.
Let Her take it from there.
I've seen pictures of nature reclaiming old lava fields, and areas destroyed by pyroclastic flows and volcanic ash. Why not the raped deforested land of Haiti.
Seems to me that would be enuf to get nature moving in the right direction.
Let Her take it from there.
I've seen pictures of nature reclaiming old lava fields, and areas destroyed by pyroclastic flows and volcanic ash. Why not the raped deforested land of Haiti.
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tokinafaty420
Haiti already was a major hub for drug traffickers. Didn't make the population rich, just made it more dangerous to live there. Trying to implement a marijuana based tourist destination isn't going to work. The government is too corrupt and the Island's infrastructure and environment is already too screwed up. Maybe if everyone left the Island and ecologists had the opportunity to try and restore it. Perhaps in like 30 - 40 years....
Indeed, some interesting minerals are there too, but oil is there as well. Deep water ports are a great assets as well, and so is the proximity to South America, and especially Venezuela. All too good reasons for Uncle Sam to settle there.
Here a link with lots of interesting information : http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html#oil_GeorgesMichelEnglish
Haiti mineral resource map : http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/miningresources.html
Irie !
Dimebagg
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because volcanic ash becomes fertile soil after breaking down?...
Regardless, the US has plenty of its own problems to take care of before spending hundreds of millions dumping compost on a third world country. And if we got hemp, trees, or fuckin pumpkin patches to flourish down there, the corrupt politics, or gangs, or groups with the most guns and machetes would take control, re-rape the land, and they'll be right back were they are now.
I feel bad for the innocent souls who were unfortunate enough to be born in such a place, but the island needs alot more than a cash crop to bounce back from decades of poor management.
Croissant
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Are you serious!? Haiti has been marginalized by the economic powers that be for hundreds of years for fear of being a good example. Were the revolutions of the French and Americans not bloody? There country was stripped by International companies and corrupt puppet governments. When the people democratically elected a leader with a plan to create equality and was not subservient to outside interests a coup was orchestrated by foreign powers. When the puppet government was formed all that were publically outspoken against it or belonged to the former poplular political party were imprisoned without trial.
Yea because kidnapping people, tarring and feathering, and lynching are so humane right? Look at our own past before you spew garbage
