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[h=3]35 Billion Produced by US Growers[/h] In 2006 the marijuana public policy analyst contended that the market value of pot produced in the United States exceeded $35 billion -- far more than the crop value of such heartland staples as corn, soybeans and hay.
How the hell can the government continue to ignore this? Are they actually blind to the fact that a huge percentage of the population enjoys smoking pot! Its obvious to anyone with a brain that no matter how much money they spend, no matter how many non-violent people they arrest and extract fines and jail time from, no matter how many lies or ridiculously biased commercials they run on television, people are going to get high. The act of getting high on Cannabis is so spiritual and fun; opening the senses to enhanced sounds in music, flavors in food or just really seeing a sunset for the first time through stoned eyes. I first got high some 35 years ago and the only downside I have experienced has been the law itself.
When I was arrested the first time I was working and supporting a family as well as paying taxes on some $40,000 US a year. I coached a softball team and we donated to toys for tots, and I had, and still do have, a great relationship with my son.
I was arrested for growing myself some grass to smoke, and my life was torn apart by the people we elect to protect us. I dont think this is really what our fore fathers had in mind. It's not a war on drugs its a war on personal freedom, and that is why we left England in the first place. On that subject I find the UK far more free than the USA.
In the land of the Free I was arrested twice more for growing a plant and both times jailed and had my life ripped apart and my property seized. I am now legal and protected under state law but we never forget that we are not truly legal or free. We keep our garden very very small and we never give weed to anyone that doesn't have a medical card.
The number one rule is never ever sell weed and get to a medical state.
This Does not apply to Northern California, they sell weed like Corn there.
Nationwide, the estimated cannabis production of $35.8 billion exceeds corn at $23 billion, soybeans at $17.6 billion and hay at $12.2 billion, according to the report.
California is responsible for $13.8 billion alone, which exceeds the value of the state's grapes, vegetables and hay combined -- and marijuana is the top cash crop in a dozen states, the report states. The report estimates that marijuana production has increased tenfold in the past quarter-century despite an anti-drug effort by law enforcement.
So if the US is producing 35 billion in Cannabis where the hell is all the money?
Covert gardens like this dot the landscape in the US.
It seems to me as a tax payer our tax department is doing a shitty job! I see revenue out the wazoo just waiting to invest in better schools, roads, communities and I really think it's time someone wakes up and takes advantage of the kick ass pot growers we have in the US. Dont think Canada is excluded here. I dont have the numbers but my homies in the great white north are growing some serious dankage and tons of it!
No Budweiser trucks here.
If you combine these missed taxes with the money the DEA pisses away, that could be used to slow the production of something really dangerous like Meth or maybe diverted into some Intel so tons of Cocaine wont be imported into North America to poison our kids. If our leaders still think a jar of buds and a bag of meth are equal in their threat to society, it's time for us to fire them and hire someone with a brain!
If you read any pot story online the comments posted after the story are always against the War on Drugs and anyone with a brain can see our economic crisis is a far more pressing issue than Americans filling our bowls with Sticky Icky. As banks Fail and millions of people face homelessness the DEA continues its raids on the Sick. Recent pictures have surfaced of Black Water ops actually envolved in the medical raids in California.
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[h=3]35 Billion Produced by US Growers[/h] In 2006 the marijuana public policy analyst contended that the market value of pot produced in the United States exceeded $35 billion -- far more than the crop value of such heartland staples as corn, soybeans and hay.
How the hell can the government continue to ignore this? Are they actually blind to the fact that a huge percentage of the population enjoys smoking pot! Its obvious to anyone with a brain that no matter how much money they spend, no matter how many non-violent people they arrest and extract fines and jail time from, no matter how many lies or ridiculously biased commercials they run on television, people are going to get high. The act of getting high on Cannabis is so spiritual and fun; opening the senses to enhanced sounds in music, flavors in food or just really seeing a sunset for the first time through stoned eyes. I first got high some 35 years ago and the only downside I have experienced has been the law itself.
When I was arrested the first time I was working and supporting a family as well as paying taxes on some $40,000 US a year. I coached a softball team and we donated to toys for tots, and I had, and still do have, a great relationship with my son.
I was arrested for growing myself some grass to smoke, and my life was torn apart by the people we elect to protect us. I dont think this is really what our fore fathers had in mind. It's not a war on drugs its a war on personal freedom, and that is why we left England in the first place. On that subject I find the UK far more free than the USA.
In the land of the Free I was arrested twice more for growing a plant and both times jailed and had my life ripped apart and my property seized. I am now legal and protected under state law but we never forget that we are not truly legal or free. We keep our garden very very small and we never give weed to anyone that doesn't have a medical card.
The number one rule is never ever sell weed and get to a medical state.
This Does not apply to Northern California, they sell weed like Corn there.
Nationwide, the estimated cannabis production of $35.8 billion exceeds corn at $23 billion, soybeans at $17.6 billion and hay at $12.2 billion, according to the report.
California is responsible for $13.8 billion alone, which exceeds the value of the state's grapes, vegetables and hay combined -- and marijuana is the top cash crop in a dozen states, the report states. The report estimates that marijuana production has increased tenfold in the past quarter-century despite an anti-drug effort by law enforcement.
So if the US is producing 35 billion in Cannabis where the hell is all the money?
Covert gardens like this dot the landscape in the US.
It seems to me as a tax payer our tax department is doing a shitty job! I see revenue out the wazoo just waiting to invest in better schools, roads, communities and I really think it's time someone wakes up and takes advantage of the kick ass pot growers we have in the US. Dont think Canada is excluded here. I dont have the numbers but my homies in the great white north are growing some serious dankage and tons of it!
No Budweiser trucks here.
If you combine these missed taxes with the money the DEA pisses away, that could be used to slow the production of something really dangerous like Meth or maybe diverted into some Intel so tons of Cocaine wont be imported into North America to poison our kids. If our leaders still think a jar of buds and a bag of meth are equal in their threat to society, it's time for us to fire them and hire someone with a brain!
If you read any pot story online the comments posted after the story are always against the War on Drugs and anyone with a brain can see our economic crisis is a far more pressing issue than Americans filling our bowls with Sticky Icky. As banks Fail and millions of people face homelessness the DEA continues its raids on the Sick. Recent pictures have surfaced of Black Water ops actually envolved in the medical raids in California.
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