Posted on 01/16/2015 7:20:24 AM PST by posterchild
TANS - Temporary Assistance to Needy Stoners
Or 10% oregano (showing my age)
Just as people have learned nothing from their abuse of drugs.
IIRC growing your own is still illegal. That is why there are the state licensed facilities.
I wouldn’t want the state forcing me to get my tomatoes only from a grocery store.
Michelle should step in and require it be mixed with arugula...
Dave’s not here.
Wish they’d make it legal here in Florida. Morons here in Floriduh voted medical use down. Still trapped in the “reefer-madness” propaganda of the 1930’s.
Well, we learned how many people once favored & still do favor enlisting Big Government to control what adults put in their own bodies (yet still consider themselves "conservative").
Hear, hear! Living in Western WA, we had several "medical" marijuana stores open up within a couple of miles of us over the last couple of years, and we're not even in town. After legalization, the number of pot stores doubled. I wish they'd all go out of business. These pot stores are now mostly occupying business locations that used to have nice businesses in them like pizza parlors, exorcise studios, or even gardening supplies.
There never was an MJ cartel in the first place. If you ever bought dope, it’s mostly single “proprietors” who cultivate it themselves and sell to select buyers by word of mouth. They’ve got their own hydroponic systems in their basement to avoid the cops but the electrical output is a giveaway and the exhaust plus the smell of it....um, not that I am experienced in this but I read it somewhere (cough)
And you have learned nothing about drug dependency.
I detest all drugs, legal and illegal. When the pro-marijuana crowd kept advocating for legalization, I kept asking why they wanted marijuana to be legal. That would mean it would be taxed, regulated, and potency would be dictated. The only reason the gov legalizes anything is to tax and control it.
So now my question is: It's a weed. What's to stop people from growing their own, now that it's legal?
Control the manufacture, packaging and distribution of dope like tobacco, and tax it like tobacco and see what happens.
Or better yet, how about paying pot farmers not to plant. And really, that could mean anyone with a backyard or even window planters. If you have soil, you're eligible for a don't-plant-pot subsidy. The important thing is, that every problem, no matter how trivial, can be solved by spending government money. After all, government money is there to be spent, isn't it?
People will start selling loosies?
It’s still illegal to grow your own in WA
...though I don’t know of any requirement that you need to retain your receipts to prove where you bought it.
Because you can't grow dandelions, wild blackberries, or scotch broom, and then harvest them, dry them, and smoke them to get a buzz.
It can tolerate a light frost and favors northern climates with long, partly-sunny days, cooler evenings and ample rain. Eastern Washington is close to perfect as is most of New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas. This is also the reason illegal growers favor national forest land in Oregon and northern California.
Some potheads will tell you the Mexican stuff is better. The reason for that is because less rain and humidity means a higher concentration of the hallucinogenic properties. When it and its taxonomic brother hemp was grown for its commercial properties of rope making, the fiber properties were more important and, hence, a climate more like that described for the mint family was favored.
Agreed.
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