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2010-05-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I know a bunch of people who don't smoke weed anymore and just do JWH.

I wouldn't know, but it sounds like it would take half the fun out of it. Eminently more practical, though.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-16 00:45|| 2010-05-16 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Legalize and tax it. The revenue will be of alcohol or tabacco proportions.

Posted by phil_b 2010-05-16 03:02|| 2010-05-16 03:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Legalize and tax it. The revenue will be of alcohol or tabacco proportions.

Indeed. Spending hand-over fist to 'prohibit' the stuff patently doesn't work. Why burn money on tail-chasing and wild goose chases when you could make money from it? The same people will still be smoking it, criminals won't be running the trade, it would be regulated, taxes can be raised and, perhaps most importantly of all, you'd be treating people like adults rather than disobedient wards of the state.

Posted by Bulldog 2010-05-16 03:51|| 2010-05-16 03:51|| Front Page Top

#4 One of the biggest arguments against legalizing and taxing it is that not only can it be grown anywhere, but that its quality and strength can be manipulated to a great degree.

The cigarette makers have long known that this is a major problem. To start with, they want a weak and bulky product, so they can fill a typical cigarette tube with it, and it will be limited to only a slightly intoxicating effect. Any more than that could be a liability nightmare.

So, they start with cigarettes that are 2x, 5x, 10x, etc. in strength, like OTC vs. prescription medicines.

Liability again comes into play with use restrictions reflecting back on the manufacturer. That is, if you smoke a 5x, you cannot drive a car or operate machinery, or the *manufacturer* is to blame. See the problem? Stupid liability laws.

But the home grower doesn't have to contend with all this crap, so can grow his own at a tenth of the cost for commercially grown product.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-16 09:37|| 2010-05-16 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Anonymoose, you hang with a hipper crowd than me. My concern with K2 and other synthetics is that it is manufactured in China with all those implications.

The good news is that means the mexican drug gangs pot operations should become less profitable.

Posted by Penguin 2010-05-16 09:46|| 2010-05-16 09:46|| Front Page Top

#6 mexican drug gangs arenb't too worried about the pot industry. They are making more money off cocaine and meth and it takes alot less space for those two too hide and sneak into the US and alot broader profit margin.I would guess more high grade marijuana is coming across the canadian border than the mexican but you still have the mexican shwag but no one wants too smoke that crap when you have alot better strains out there. I would watch the K2 stuff for tyhe same reason as stated above . It is made in China and remember those are the ppl who made the junk baby formula that killed a bunch of children.

Posted by chris 2010-05-16 10:45|| 2010-05-16 10:45|| Front Page Top

#7
"Processed" is not a noun, Mr. Allman.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-05-16 14:24|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-05-16 14:24|| Front Page Top

#8 it also does NOT show up on drug tests for the moment. Better living through chemistry cuts both ways.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-16 15:36|| 2010-05-16 15:36|| Front Page Top

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