West Africa's Cash Crop: Weed

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=49269 ^ | Sunday, 04 January 2004 | G. Pascal Zachary

[robertpaulsen]

Doesn't the author realize that if marijuana were legal, "ganja" exports would drop to about, oh, zero?

What, we should legalize marijuana AND prop up their price? Yeah, I'll vote for that proposition.

[A CA Guy]

Great dangerous BS on your part. Just today it was announced that overall, drug use was down except for kids with pot and they say it is twice as powerful as what their parents had and that the parents bad habits and stupidity is passing this addiction down with their attitude.

They are a curse to their children.

[robertpaulsen]

I thought my sarcasm was obvious.

The author claims that ganja is such a great export crop, that it's helping the Ghana economy, and lamenting that if it were only legal in the U.S. then Ghana could sell so much more.

The only reason Ghana is making money is because marijuana is illegal -- it increases the price/profit. If marijuana were legal, the price would drop and many users would just grow their own. Ghana's exports would drop to zero.

"Just today it was announced that overall, drug use was down except for kids with pot"

Do you have a reference for that? I'd be interested in reading it.