All righty. So let’s take these line by line and I may even get zotted but, what the heck.
6. There’s a Whole Industry Dedicated to Just Making Weed Pretty
it should be made pretty. The underground product is a nasty business and one never knows what they are truly getting.
If it packaged like a regular commercial product it will and should be regulated.
#5. The “Safe, All-Natural Drug” Could Actually Be Full of Serious Toxins
uhmmmm No. Most dispensaries want a completely clean product that is grown without chemicals. As such, they pay top dollar for weed grown in hydroponic environment.
the people growing hydroponics care about the environment and the product they deliver and don’t want to introduce chems that are harmful to the environment and the user.
#4. Weed Can Be Fairly Dangerous to Handle
Really? How so? I was a Sheriff Explorer for 4 years and spent my summers cutting the stuff down during raids.
I think it must have made me a Republican but, other than that I have no ill effects, that I’m aware of.
#3. Even Where It’s Legal, It’s Not Legal
And the Feds are wrong. This is a state issue and the Feds seem oh so willing to tell the states how to manage their highways and even telling em “hands off the border brothers”, despite the tremondous cost and impact of a huge swath of immigrants coming here, when we won’t or can’t support our own vets, elderly and truly needy.
#2. The Legal Pot Industry Is Hurting the Environment
puhleeze. ...that is so much B.S.
the legal pot industry uses not even a 10th the chemicals used in th3 illegal trade.
In fact, the worst they do is use R.O. water and return it to the sewer minus whatever crap came out of the tap to begin with.
#1. The Growers Don’t Want It to Be Legal
Responsible growers, who see this as a business opportunity absolutely want it to be legal.
hell, they want it scrutinized to keep everything on the up and up and even taxed, so our communities benefit.
As it stands now, I can walk into any wilderness and run across someones grow.
it is booby trapped, there is feces everywhere, chemicals used, water diverted from streams and rivers and I’m sure a few innocent people have been “lost” running into a grow and curiously walking through it.
the illegal trade is violent and devastating to our ecology.
tobacco is grown safely and poses none of the risks associated with an illegal operation.
pot should be grown the same way and distributed the same, with controls similar to liquor.
A legal industry will erode cartel business and the world will be much safer.
Absolutely agree with you. If people want to smoke tobacco, drink alcohol or smoke MJ, it is their bodies, and their business only. .
I think the environmental claim is based on how much water they use to grow it.
Here in California that is a big deal. In many other states probably not so much.
You have learned your hogwash MJ talking points well, grasshopper so it is useless to attempt to rebut.
However, your last sentence was obliterated by an article written in Colorado just this last week about the underground pot business flourishing because people will buy from the cheapest supplier which so happens to NOT be your friendly dope dealer with a store front and license.
We are destined for a society that fulfills the verse to that song; “Everybody must get stoned”.
I was wondering if anyone considered the source of this posting...Cracked? (chuckles)
Those were well written rubuttal points.
Whatever one thinks about M.J.; it should be pretty obvious that a legal, and well-regulated industry is likely to be better, on every measure, than an illegal, underground industry run by criminal organizations (the criminal organizations excepted).
Substitute “alcohol” for “pot”, and you’ll see what I mean.
There you go making sense.