Posted on 09/09/2013 4:09:48 AM PDT by markomalley
Napa and Sonoma have their wine tours, and travellers flock to Scotland to sample single malt whiskies. But in Jamaica, farmers are offering a different kind of trip for a different type of connoisseur.
Call them ganja tours: smoky, mystical - and technically illegal - journeys to some of the island's hidden cannabis plantations, where pot tourists can sample such strains as "purple kush" and "pineapple skunk."
The tours pass through places like Nine Mile, the tiny hometown of reggae legend, and famous pot-lover, Bob Marley. Here, in Jamaica's verdant central mountains, dreadlocked men escort curious visitors to a farm where deep-green marijuana plants grow out of the reddish soil. Similar tours are offered just outside the western resort town of Negril, where a marijuana mystique has drawn weed-smoking vacationers for decades.
"This one here is the original sinsemilla, Bob Marley's favorite. And this one here is the chocolate skunk. It's special for the ladies," a pot farmer nicknamed "Breezy" told an Associated Press reporter, as he showed off several varieties on his plot one recent morning.
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How many drivers at 0.08% BAC are actually impaired?
Some want to push that standard down to 0.03%.
It is a neo-prohibition in itself.
Demonizing tobacco and alcohol do nothing to make the case for pot legalization. You’d find yourself unable to use it (can’t smoke it indoors, can’t smoke it outdoors, can only buy it over age 21 with ID, can lose your driver’s license for providing it to someone a month shy of being “of age”).
By the DUI standards, if there is a measurable trace in your bloodstream of pot, then you would be “affected”.
Hoisted yourself on your own petard.of age
What about field tests for the countless Rx drugs people are driving on that impair FAR more than pot? some studies even show that pot smokers slow down and drive more carefully. Unlike alcohol which encourages aggressive driving in many people.
The mob will always be in gambling even with legal casinos. You see casinos will take bets only if you front the money, however the mob will take the bet on credit and collect in the way the mob does.
A trip to the back country of Jamaica in the company of criminals and friends of criminals. What could possibly go wrong?
That's all well and good.
But that is not the reality now. The reality now is that it is controlled by organized criminals.
And people do the tours with impunity. Similar in morality to going on pedophile sex tours to Bangkok.
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Smoking pot, adults having sex with pre-pubescent children.
Yea, pretty much the same thing, morally speaking of course.
do I need a sarcasm tag?
I assume your comment made sense you, but I’m pretty puzzled by it.
Try this:
Travel great distances to give your money to organized crime.
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Travel great distances to give your money to organized crime.
People already buy it and use it openly in several states with little problems. The main problem is feds harassing legal growers and stores. The feds can't continue their harassment when it becomes completely obvious they are wrong on the issue.
I understand and it well might. And, as I've stated, as long as there is a reliable field sobriety test and an objective measure (___µg per ml blood or whatever) established to determine when a person is considered intoxicated, then have at it (IMHO).
But this isn't a tour of the coffee shops in Amsterdam. This is a tour of places under control of some really, really bad people.
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