RE: O/T, Largest Cash Crop

It has been announced that marijuana is America's largest cash crop, about $35 billion yearly.

Roughly 1/3 of that comes from here in California.

Somehow, I'm missing something.

Think I have a lot of company, especially with people who are charged with taking care of what are called illegal substance issues.

They certainly are missing something.

Lew

Reply to
Lew Hodgett
Loading thread data ...

You mean taking lye off the shelves didn't solve the drug problem?

Perhaps we should take away fertilizer, soil, air, water, heat and light. That oughtta slow them down.

Oh wait... they all ready took away fertilizer.. forget that > It has been announced that marijuana is America's largest cash crop,

Reply to
root

OK, Lew - call me dumb but I don't get it.

Missing What?

Reply to
Joe Bemier

There's an easy solution to that problem: if a shrink says that Jack Felon is rehabilitated and should be released, release Jack into the shrink's custody, to rent a room in the shrink's house for six months or a year.

Reply to
Doug Miller

It is a tough one. Has been since the time I lived 20 kms away from Amsterdam. That was the mid-60's. People who have decided for themselves that they can't handle life as it is coming to them, will find an escape. From a brisk walk in the woods all the way to sticking their faces into a bag full of solvents. Escape all you want, just don't take anybody down with you. The most readily available products kill the most people. Tobacco, alcohol, McDonald's fries, etc... not necessarily in that order. People who have a propensity to hurt themselves, will.

For the life of me, I can not find any justification for the fact that alcohol is legal, yet marijuana is not. I don't think any guy has ever killed his family whilst under the influence of pot. I have enjoyed a few giggles and angel-food cakes wrapped in bacon in my day. Now, I simply don't have the time...besides I'm happy the way things are.

Legalize the shit already and allow the users to grow a couple of plants for themselves. That will take the greed out of the equation.

Only asshole cops bust kids for simple possession.

Reply to
Robatoy

Think about it.

How about the continued stupidity of government to fail to recognize a failed policy and change it?

How about a $35 billion piece of the gross national product that operates as part of the under ground economy?

Lew

Lew

Reply to
Lew Hodgett

And therefore isn't taxed... which is the best argument I can think of for abolishing the income tax, and replacing it with a sales tax: it's the only way there is, to tax illegally earned income. Sure, there might be one or two drug dealers or marijuana growers who report that income on their 1040s, but obviously most of them don't. The money does them no good unless they spend it, though. So tax it when they spend it.

Reply to
Doug Miller

You ever consider the methodology used to come up with such figures? A WAG or wild assed guess is most likely used here.... I don't recall a 300 million member audit on the subject lately. If my math is correct it comes to $116.66 for every man, women and child in the country. Average heavy users would fit a fairly narrow age range and a reasonably narrow slice of that group would routinely use heavily to boot. Many pot heads are reasonably easy to identify....they are often lazy and intellectually shallow. When a life achievement revolves around ingesting a substance things like ambition, achievement, learning and discipline fall by the wayside....... Shall we conduct a WREC poll on how much "we" spend per year on pot?.....zero here Rod

Reply to
Rod & Betty Jo

Yeah, but how much do "we" spend on booze, a much more mind rotting drug than pot and probably more likely to result in lazy, intellectually shallow, drunken slob-like behavior.

Dave Hall

(Who, by the way, spends zero dollars per year on either and doesn't ingest either if offered for free)

Reply to
Dave Hall

One of the things that always gets me about these statistics, as well as statistics regarding things like software piracy: How the heck do they know? Where do these figures come from? The druglords aren't reporting it, and if the authorities know the amount that is being sold and grown, they ought to know where it is and therefore they ought to be able to stop it. Just like most of the other news, my guess is that this is "made up facts", kind of that "fake but accurate" thing. Especially in this case, who can truly dispute the number? Why not $50 billion yearly, or only $5 billion.

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Reply to
Mark & Juanita

I always get a kick out of the way they calculate 'street value' of drugs confiscated during a bust. Here, at the border between the US and Canada, we get regular news reports of confiscations and their associated 'values'. The numbers are incredibly overblown, nay, superinflated to show the good people (tax payers) that the boys in blue are ON THE JOB!! Just recently they busted a trucker with 2 pounds of pot. Street value of $30,000 dollars. (That's around 30 dollars per 1 gram joint ... for pressed Mexican ditch-weed. (Photo showed two highly compressed brown bricks). OVER $ 900 per ounce! Who-the-hell are they kidding? Those numbers are for public consumption, to make themselves look way better than they are. They are "doing one heck of job."

Reply to
Robatoy

Yep. And they made it difficult for me to get allergy medicine as well- without it, my sinuses often get infected badly enough to end up in the hospital, but now it can only be got during certain hours, and with a photo ID. Sure, they made newer versions of the stuff, but it doesn't work as well, and costs 3-4 times as much.

Far as I'm concerned, they should just let the meth-heads go on and destroy themselves, and leave our products where they are. I know that doesn't have much to do with marijuana, but methamphetamine is the big crusade in my area. Next thing you know, a guy won't be able to get a propane tank for the grill or starter fluid for the car, either.

Reply to
Prometheus

The figures come from DOMUS (Department of Made Up Statistics) or DOMB (Department of Make Believe)

Reply to
RayV

This whole business of "freedom from the consequences of our own stupidity" being made a "right" by the do-gooders is just getting scarier and scarier.

Reply to
J. Clarke

That answer is simple, marijuana is too easy to grow and the government can't control it closely enough to tax it. So it is illegal.

Reply to
Leon

No wonder they are loosing the war on drugs. They make it look sooooo profitable.

Reply to
Leon

Tue, Dec 19, 2006, 6:30am (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net (Lew=A0Hodgett) did thusly post: It has been announced that marijuana is America's largest cash crop, about $35 billion yearly. Roughly 1/3 of that comes from here in California.

Well, that goes a long ways toward explaining California politics then. Anold is smoking blunts.

JOAT Chubby had not demanded much out of life, and had got it.

Reply to
J T

In article , "Rod & Betty Jo" wrote: Shall we conduct a WREC poll on how much "we" spend per year

Zero here... but I do hang with a few musicians...

Reply to
Robatoy

I don't think that is fair. It is highly unlikely that enough shrinks would cooperate with your suggestion. Your idea is a wash. You also assume that there would be a room for rent. We don't know that. Cite your source please.

Reply to
Robatoy

The voice _from_ experience playing the following different types of music ... strictly from observation, you understand:

Jazz - "tea" (aka pot) Country - beer Rock - assorted (at the same time) Bluegrass - whisky (out in the parking lot) Folk - Pot pre '80/Green tea post '80's Blues - assorted Western Swing - water (most too old to drink)

Not in any particular chronilogical order ...

Reply to
Swingman

HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.