Posted on 01/16/2015 7:20:24 AM PST by posterchild
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington's legal marijuana market opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn't have pot to sell. Prices were through the roof.
Six months later, the equation has flipped, bringing serious growing pains to the new industry.
A big harvest of sun-grown marijuana from eastern Washington last fall flooded the market. Prices are starting to come down in the state's licensed pot shops, but due to the glut, growers are — surprisingly — struggling to sell their marijuana. Some are already worried about going belly-up, finding it tougher than expected to make a living in legal weed.
"It's an economic nightmare," says Andrew Seitz, general manager at Dutch Brothers Farms in Seattle.
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Peanuts are harmful to some people - should they be banned for everybody?
Congress has the explicit authority to interdict whatever it wants - ketchup, if it deems fit. However, much pot and synthetic drugs are domestic product.
Having seen the totality of what government has mandated as "good" (e.g., taking from the productive to give to serial bastard-makers and other leeches) and proscribed as "evil" (e.g., protecting unborn persons) for several generations now, I think neutrality sounds great.
You are an idiot, and not worth the trouble of arguing with. The only reason I ever bother to do so is because of your insistence on spreading garbage ideas which are detrimental to this nation and mankind in general.
I am not going to bother with your implied assertion that HUMANS in America are not susceptible to the same BIOCHEMICAL addictions as are HUMANS in Asia. It is the sort of thing I might expect out of a kindergarten child, but it is certainly not worth entertaining the idea for an adult.
Which doesn't contradict the fact that drug use and addiction are not solely about biochemistry.
Again, you are a F***ing idiot. You might as well say water doesn't cause "Wet." Do humanity a favor and Stop posting stupid crap.
False comparison. (as usual with you pot nutters.) Peanuts are a useful food source for many people (It has actual real-world positive benefits as a food stuff, unlike pot) while those allergic are in the extreme minority.
Pick something that is utterly F***ing useless to consume, and which ruins about 15+ percent of the population that tries it, and then you might have an apt comparison.
Apart from that Subway stopped selling Peanut butter cookies for precisely the reason that it causes severe allergic reactions in some people. As a company which wants to avoid liability, I grasp their reasons for doing so.
I made no such implication - that's your functional illiteracy talking.
Here's what the American Society of Addiction Medicine says:
“Genetic factors account for about half of the likelihood that an individual will develop addiction. Environmental factors interact with the person’s biology and affect the extent to which genetic factors exert their influence. Resiliencies the individual acquires (through parenting or later life experiences) can affect the extent to which genetic predispositions lead to the behavioral and other manifestations of addiction. Culture also plays a role in how addiction becomes actualized in persons with biological vulnerabilities to the development of addiction.”
Once again, you are a fool to think that you can get "Neutral." There is no such thing. Have you not the slightest idea what has been happening to the government for the last several decades? (Longer actually) Have you not noticed that it's growing increasingly evil? You simply have no grasp of the fact that the advancement of your pet issue is simply serving the interests of those forces of destruction within which our government is currently in thrall.
I doubt you can follow it, but if you want a scientific explanation for what's going on I would suggest you read this:
http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/home-page/
How about you try to learn something useful and stop pushing your weed?
Peanuts are just part of the picture; "As many as 15 million people have food allergies." (http://www.foodallergy.org/document.doc?id=194)
Pick something that is utterly F***ing useless to consume
So government gets to decide what's "useful"? Bootlicker.
Apart from that Subway stopped selling Peanut butter cookies for precisely the reason that it causes severe allergic reactions in some people.
I fully support every business' right to not sell whatever it chooses to not sell: pot, peanuts, you name it.
There can be no other explanation for your assertions.
The problem with biochemical addiction is fundamental human biochemistry. If the chemicals didn't tamper with human biochemistry, they could not be addictive.
I'm not interested in reading your psychobabble arguing that there is any other component. Outliers are irrelevant to massive majorities.
Have you not noticed that it's growing increasingly evil?
Did you not read what came before my comma? Its evil intent would be less of a problem if statists left and right hadn't allowed it so much power.
“Genetic factors account for about half of the likelihood that an individual will develop addiction. Environmental factors interact with the person’s biology and affect the extent to which genetic factors exert their influence. Resiliencies the individual acquires (through parenting or later life experiences) can affect the extent to which genetic predispositions lead to the behavioral and other manifestations of addiction. Culture also plays a role in how addiction becomes actualized in persons with biological vulnerabilities to the development of addiction.”
I'm not interested in reading your psychobabble arguing that there is any other component.
The American Society of Addiction Medicine versus some anonymous guy on the Internet - who's more credible?
Anyone with two functional brain cells can instantly figure out that you can't eat marijuana for food. One does not have to be a Fascists totalitarian bootlicker to point out that as food, the stuff is utterly f***ing useless.
The plants put that THC toxin in there to PREVENT predators from consuming them, but for some reason, you dopers keep trying to outsmart the plants. In this case, the plants have more intelligence than do you. They are trying to KILL YOU by tampering with your biochemistry, and you are going "Wow! This weed is really good!"
Yeah, their plan is working perfectly.
Done with you. Other than heaping mockery, I don’t see any real point in communicating with you.
There are many other ways for a thing to be "useful."
The plants put that THC toxin in there to PREVENT predators from consuming them
THC is a pretty weak toxin, which is why nobody ever died from THC toxicity as the result of smoking pot. What THC does well is mimic the endocannabinoids naturally produced by the human body.
Done with you.
Flee.
I got tired of pot and went on to heroin instead.
Peanuts are not psychoactive. Meaning they don’t change behavior.
I believe the hysterically defensive reaction against any criticism of marijuana is the result of the effect I mentioned earlier. They worship the stuff, like they think it’s an actual deity.
Pure gasoline still costs considerably MORE than ten percent ethanol at the pump here.
So changed behavior justifies government bans but fatal allergic reactions don't?
Lack of sleep changes behavior - should government regulate our bedtimes?
the hysterically defensive reaction against any criticism of marijuana
That's entirely in your mind - I never disagreed with the point that SOME people can't handle pot. I simply noted that there are a great many other things that SOME people can't handle and yet we don't ban those things for ALL people.
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