Executives Who Inhale

New York Business ^ | July 25, 2005 | Matthew Flamm

[AppyPappy]

City dwellers fork over as much as $600 an ounce for top-quality product,

We paid $30 an ounce for Columbian Gold. Some people can't see the obvious problem. That's like buying Johnny Walker Blue Label as your everyday Scotch.

[AppyPappy]

Let's get the price down, so people don't have to trade up to the hard stuff.

Marijuana is a different high than Meth or Heroin.

[Dark Skies]

It was a joke, my friend.

Sorry, painful memories.

[Servant of the 9]

Let's get the price down, so people don't have to trade up to the hard stuff.

Marijuana is a different high than Meth or Heroin.

Yes, and they are very different from each other.

My point was that when enforcement inverts the price vs. power relationship it begins to do much more harm than good by driving people to cheaper but more addictive drugs.

So9

[AppyPappy]

I'm sure he can buy cheaper marijuana if he wanted. You can still get a single high for $5 which is what a rock will give you.

[commonerX]

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[iconoclast]

When you grow up and see how middle age feels

I hate to think what you're going to do when you reach your "Golden Years"! ;-)

[Servant of the 9]

When you grow up and see how middle age feels

I hate to think what you're going to do when you reach your "Golden Years"! ;-)

I have, though I see them more as the "Corroded Brass Years".

What I do is try to grab every possible pleasure when I still can, while I still can.

Too much is not enough.

SO9

[vin-one]

wow, successful people smoking pot, I was told that was impossible.......

[TKDietz]

"By the way, the website also lists George Washington as a possible pothead. The evidence? Because, "Washington's diary reports that he separated males from females in his hemp garden, "rather too late." Much speculation has ensued about whether or not Washington's reason for sexing his plants was to make a more smokable product." I like this, "Much speculation has ensued...". Much speculation from who? How do they know that Washington's goal was to produce "a more smokable product"? Did it ever occur to the potheads that perhaps Washington was simply experimenting to get greater yields from his crops?"

I have no idea whether Washington ever smoked pot. But I can't imagine why someone would think he would increase his hemp yield by pulling his male plants. Roughly half of Washington's crop would have been male plants. Why would he want to kill half of his crop? There is also a letter he wrote that I have read where he discussed obtaining a "hemp preparation" from a doctor. I don't have a link to it saved but there is more than one website where you can find all of the letters he saved during his presidency scanned and archived. The preparation he was talking about could have been all sorts of things that weren't intoxicating, or as many speculate it could have been hashish. I have no idea, but we know hemp farming was a major part of our economy back then and that growers like Washington were experimenting with varieties from all over the world. You know they had to know that it was used as a medicine and an intoxicant in various parts of the world and it seems highly unlikely that none of these hemp farmers experimenting with all of these exotic strains from all over the world smoked or otherwise ingested a little just for the heck of it.

[TKDietz]

"We paid $30 an ounce for Columbian Gold. Some people can't see the obvious problem. That's like buying Johnny Walker Blue Label as your everyday Scotch."

Where I live commercial grade pot goes from anywhere from $50 an ounce to $120 an ounce from what my clients tell me and from what I hear narcotics officers saying. The really strong stuff grown indoors with "trade names" like "Northern Lights," "Blueberry," "Bubblegum," and so on can cost as much as $120 per quarter ounce here but it doesn't appear that many people are buying it. I've seen an awful lot of pot brought to court by police in little clear evidence bags and it's almost always regular cheap Mexican, the compressed looking brownish buds with seeds, as opposed to fluffy seedless buds with a pungent smell that cost much more. I don't think most people are paying so much for pot. High earning executives might splurge on the high dollar stuff but the average Joe smokes cheapo Mexican for the most part.

The lion's share of the thousands of tons of marijuana seized in this country every year is cheap Mexican brickweed. Government estimates are that Mexican accounts for as much as 95% of the marijuana available on the market in this country. I'm on a major interstate highway and our public defender office gets several new drug mule cases every moth it seems. We handle several thousand pounds worth of these cases every year. For every load that gets popped you know several more are getting through. It's incredible how much pot is available on the streets. Government estimates say there may be over 20,000 metric tons available on the streets after they get done busting people and seizing what they are going to seize in a given year. The government will never stop the flow of pot in this country. They'd have more control over it if they just legalized it and regulated the industry.

[TKDietz]

"several new drug mule cases every moth it seems."

Should say: "several new drug mule cases every _month_ it seems."

[HIDEK6]

"It's an asset to the conceptualizing part of the business," Jim says. "It's a liability to the implementation part."

Seems to me the first time I heard this BS was 40 years ago.

Funny thing, I knew it was BS then, too.

[AppyPappy]

They'd have more control over it if they just legalized it and regulated the industry.

With tobacco being slowly outlawed, there is probably no chance of that happening. I'm not sure the government is capable of regulating marijuana as it wants.

[vikzilla]

Either you don't know addiction or it's still your best friend.

Rehab is for quitters!

Nobody likes a quitter:)

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[Dark Skies]

Heh heh...

I never had to go to rehab but I definitely had to kick an addiction. Best thing I ever did. It was totally liberating.

[Uriah]

Don't subject yourself to it!
Immediately seize all marijuana found and mail directly to me so I can turn it in to the proper authorities!


I will be happy to lend a hand.

[Uriah]

am a conservative and a vy high achiever...and a former pot addict.

If you can smoke or drink in moderation, God bless you.

But if pot dominates your daily life or nightly life...consider kicking it.

If you think being high is good, you won't believe how great sobriety is. If it is hard to quit...replace your addiction to dope with an addition to exercise.

I know that addicts are depressed about it...kick it and get back into living...start getting fresh air and working out...and get a spiritual life.

Don't become a zombie.


Fight the evil.




Attending all the meetings I see.

[dfwgator]

"Dude, where's my stock options?"