If Weed was 100% legal in the USA

if weed was 100% legal I would cut every single tree on my land (22 acres) tear up the ground and grow thousands of plants build a greenhouse for males and I would fill a hot tub with hash oil and produce the finest hand rubbed hash and make water hash in washing machines for all the left overs from the rubbings and an indoor op to supply my coffee shop

if weed were legal i would plant it in every swamp and gully and meadow until everyone and everything had enough..!

we could use it to build skyscrapers and to stop the oil crisis.. feed the starving and stop dumping plastic in the oceans..

there would be dancing in the streets across the world!

I think it should be legal like tomatoes, or rather more like tobacco, because I don't think 10 year olds need pot, then again I started smoking cigarettes when I was 13...no longer smoke now, but that is neither here nor there...there is just too much stigma, but as time goes on each generation perhaps gets a little closer...

here is a thing - before pot was legal - it was not the fun thing for kids to do at all - it was something that grandparents did for their cramps and poor old wooden teeth and such things. it was something that old people with wooden teeth would use to converse over political law at a coffee house in new england when this country was founded. young people always had tons of better things to do to enjoy themselves.

my point is that when pot prohibition happened - the number of smokers went through the roof - i think that prohibiting something gives it a mystique. a feel like it is a big deal - especially to a young person - and a feel like no one else can have it, it is valuable, other kids do it secretly, etc.. but remove the mystique and it is like a Bud Light or a pack of Camels. is that really going to attract the hip young kids of today? again - regulation will take access away from kids just like with liquor - we don't need beer hustlers selling to kids so we keep it under lock and key. end of story.

but, i would still plant it everywhere because the animals and specifically the birds need it! birds that don't get to eat their native cannabis seeds live shorter, less happy lives and don't sing as much.

Originally Posted by ford442

here is a thing - before pot was legal - it was not the fun thing for kids to do at all - it was something that grandparents did for their cramps and poor old wooden teeth and such things. it was something that old people with wooden teeth would use to converse over political law at a coffee house in new england when this country was founded. young people always had tons of better things to do to enjoy themselves.

my point is that when pot prohibition happened - the number of smokers went through the roof - i think that prohibiting something gives it a mystique. a feel like it is a big deal - especially to a young person - and a feel like no one else can have it, it is valuable, other kids do it secretly, etc.. but remove the mystique and it is like a Bud Light or a pack of Camels. is that really going to attract the hip young kids of today? again - regulation will take access away from kids just like with liquor - we don't need beer hustlers selling to kids so we keep it under lock and key. end of story.

but, i would still plant it everywhere because the animals and specifically the birds need it! birds that don't get to eat their native cannabis seeds live shorter, less happy lives and don't sing as much.

While it has been shown that when legalized, populations decrease use, Cannabis was a legal tender in the US for over a hundred years! Hemp was everywhere. It was law that you HAD to grow Cannabis on your farm land. FOR THE GOVERNMENT! Cannabis was everywhere, until prohibition sent it underground. Now the US can't collect on the market. I think Uncle SAM might have a learning disorder...

Legalization is fought by government and by corporate American (like there is a difference). The plutocracy would stand to loose too much of their income stream. One example is prisons. The privatization of the prison system/industry (did you ever think that prisons would be an industry??) is big bucks. If you legalize, you would reduce the prison space needed, and that cuts corporate profits for companies like CCA. In Florida they are pushing to build even more prisons, even though they do not need the space. How many people are in jail/prison for pot related expenses. Tommy Chong pulled 18 months in a privately run federal prison facility for a freaking waterbong. My fellow tokers, to legalize is to take corporate profits and we certainly can't do that. God forbid that we no longer need some of the Big Pharma concoctions for pain. I toke for arthritis after almost dieing from the meds. They almost destroyed my stomach. I lost 50 lbs in 3 weeks thanks to NSAIDS. I'm all for legalization but in order to do that we have to de-incentivize our government. Being a congressperson or a senator should not have all of the cash flowing in to influence them. You want to fix things, put the congress and the senate on minimum wage. They would get their asses in gear then. That's just my opinion, I could be completely wrong. BNB

fuck that first time I smoked weed was 8 years old and we were smoking with a 5 year old it should be legal like tomatoes Imo

Originally Posted by missnu

I think it should be legal like tomatoes, or rather more like tobacco, because I don't think 10 year olds need pot, then again I started smoking cigarettes when I was 13...no longer smoke now, but that is neither here nor there...there is just too much stigma, but as time goes on each generation perhaps gets a little closer...

Originally Posted by missnu

I think it should be legal like tomatoes, or rather more like tobacco, because I don't think 10 year olds need pot, then again I started smoking cigarettes when I was 13...no longer smoke now, but that is neither here nor there...there is just too much stigma, but as time goes on each generation perhaps gets a little closer...

They may not need it, but it's better than them not having it. I remember back in high school, if someone couldn't score a bag of weed, they'd go huff paint instead. Damage control - as much as you would like to, you can't really control your kids. If they want to do drugs they will whether you like it or not.

Tobacco is actually illegal to grow without a license. Stupid IMO.