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To: Ken H

Producing alcohol on your own is too difficult to be a threat to government revenues. Hardly the case with marijuana. The first and only time I ever did it, with two seeds, no expertise and very little effort, I grew enough to last me more than a year.

Try that with whiskey.

I’ve never seen the pro-pot crowd so enthusiastic about being taxed. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone...


24 posted on 03/26/2009 5:55:08 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I've never seen the pro-pot crowd so enthusiastic about being taxed.

Aren't you one of the pro-pot crowd?

It's about basic freedom. Grown men should be free to grow what they please and use it however they choose.

25 posted on 03/26/2009 6:34:26 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

“Producing alcohol on your own is too difficult to be a threat to government revenues.”

It’s pretty simple to produce, actually, even at small-industrial scales. It’s the vicious relentless enforcement that makes it a pain.

Grow cannabis at the same scale, if it were “legal and taxed” and I imagine BATFEW would kick your doors down and drag you off, just like if you had a barrel a month still.

They’d be enthusiastically backed by the wholesale and retail cannabis industry.


26 posted on 03/26/2009 6:37:40 PM PDT by DBrow
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