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Growing pains: how Oregon wound up with way more pot than it can smoke
The Guardian ^ | 04/19/2018 | Lily Raff McCalou

Posted on 04/20/2018 1:27:43 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: umgud
Let me Google that for you.

 

 

21 posted on 04/20/2018 1:57:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Send Tommy Chong over there, problem solved.


22 posted on 04/20/2018 1:58:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Responsibility2nd

As an Oregonian, I’m not consuming my part.

The surplus has attracted out-of-state interest. They buy a bunch and try to take it home. Many get caught.

If you have out-of-state plates and are headed toward the state line, you’re likely to get stopped for some bogus reason. The real reason is to see if you’re smuggling marijuana.


23 posted on 04/20/2018 2:00:32 PM PDT by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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To: Rio
Looks like someone got caught. For a non-bogus reason.


24 posted on 04/20/2018 2:05:45 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Rio

Growers in southern Oregon are finding that they can’t recover their production costs. Lots of dispensaries are closing. hehehehe


25 posted on 04/20/2018 2:07:38 PM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If they have more than they can smoke in-state, will they export by “dumping” it on the interstate market?


26 posted on 04/20/2018 2:09:56 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Good thing it doesn’t cost much to grow it.


27 posted on 04/20/2018 2:10:18 PM PDT by windowdude
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To: umgud

“420” is the police call numbers for a pot arrest.


28 posted on 04/20/2018 2:11:44 PM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: Rio

I hate what pot has done to Grants Pass.

Five acre plots in rural areas are being bulldozed and ugly fences with blazing floodlights are changing the landscape.

We’ve got six pot stores in town, who’d’ve thought ten years ago that little Grants Pass would become a haven fro drug dealers.

Ed


29 posted on 04/20/2018 2:15:48 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: KC_Lion
Image result for 420 ecard

30 posted on 04/20/2018 2:16:47 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

I wonder if Oregon’s pot heads will demand a price support program(welfare) for pot farmers?

Like the ones the Feds used to have for Tobacco and still have for sugar, corn, est, est.

The Feds are out of the question as it is still illegal under Federal law.


31 posted on 04/20/2018 2:17:00 PM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: ping jockey

“The day Colorado made recreational use legal. Half the high school senior class here skipped school today.”

The day they repealed alcohol prohibition, people drank like fish too.

It was obvious to anyone on the ground that the ban did more harm than good. Things soon calmed down and returned to normal. People drank like they always did except without adulterated alcohol and criminal gangs fighting over profits.

You can’t effectively ban something that comes out of the very ground we stand on. It only creates more criminals, a police state and poisoned people


32 posted on 04/20/2018 2:19:42 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: cyclotic
That was a unique experience sitting on a steam bath.

Just wait until the wax ring melts. That will certainly add to the experience!!!

33 posted on 04/20/2018 2:20:05 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: windowdude
Good thing it doesn’t cost much to grow it.

Just like anything in capitalism, there is a wide range in the quality of the product, hence a wide range in the ways(costs) of growing it..

If you want "Indiana ditch weed", then it is cheap, you want "Panama Red" or "Maui Wowie"(Did I just date myself?) then expect to pay a bit more.

Not that I know anything about growing, selling or smoking pot, mind you...

34 posted on 04/20/2018 2:24:58 PM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: windowdude
Good thing it doesn’t cost much to grow it.

And you would know this how?

36 posted on 04/20/2018 2:34:34 PM PDT by BipolarBob (All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; beaversmom; dainbramaged; TheStickman
LOL!


37 posted on 04/20/2018 2:35:11 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hard times for the gangland Dealers.


38 posted on 04/20/2018 2:39:30 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (N)
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To: toddausauras

I was in San Francisco in 1967 when it was announced that all the locally confiscated pot would be burned at the incinerator and date and time given. Most of the hippies for a hundred miles around congregated on the leeward side of the incinerator. Police tried to make them “move along” but just got them milling in circles. I think they arrested a couple but it didn’t have any effect at all.


39 posted on 04/20/2018 2:42:58 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (N)
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To: varyouga

I have always believed that drugs should not have been criminalized in the first place. It got us the DEA and SWAT who seem to raid people at random when their business is down.


40 posted on 04/20/2018 2:47:26 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (B)
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