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Marijuana Top U.S. Cash Crop at $35 Billion
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| Dec. 18, 2006
| Reuters
Posted on 12/18/2006 2:00:49 PM PST by kddid
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To: kddid
I think we're winning the War on Drugs! ROTFL
To: kddid
Reminds me of the old Bloom County cartoon:
Frame 1:
Senator Befellow: A farmer! A man of the earth! My heart bleeds for good folks like you. Going through hard times, are you?
Farmer: Nope, doin dandy.
Frame 2:
Senator Bedfellow: Good! This is an excellent batch of corn you have here...
Farmer: 'Taint corn. It's dope.
Frame 3:
Senator Bedfellow: Pardon?
Farmer: Here, take some home to the wife.
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:37:22 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: kddid
price per pound of marijuana at $1,606 I remember $25/lb and they talk about gasoline prices going up!
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:38:43 PM PST
by
SouthTexas
(Stop global warming---eat beef!)
To: kddid
He said more American teens were in treatment centers for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.Yeah they might be in those joke money machine treatment centers, but doing what? Attempting to break a psychological addiction. Hahahahaha!
To: MeanWestTexan
$100 Billion in tax revenue on $35 Billion dollar industry???? Some interesting math, there.
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:43:56 PM PST
by
TheBattman
(I've got TWO QUESTIONS for you....)
To: TheBattman
On a product that can be produced at home by a consumer more easily than tobacco or beer.
That'll work just fine.
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:50:08 PM PST
by
cryptical
(Wretched excess is just barely enough.)
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To: kddid
No wonder there is a class disparity in the USA.....someone's spending all their money on this....
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:53:57 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(I think the real problem is islamo-bombia! (Rummyfan))
Comment #49 Removed by Moderator
To: kddid
Legalize it... then tax the hell outta it!!
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:09:28 PM PST
by
fhlh
(Liberal (noun): A person so open minded, their brains have fallen out of their head.)
To: Brad Cloven
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:10:00 PM PST
by
fhlh
(Liberal (noun): A person so open minded, their brains have fallen out of their head.)
To: razorback-bert
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:22:06 PM PST
by
jonefab
To: 11th Commandment
We beat the foreign competition coming from Central and South America!I don't know about that. There were no comparisons between countries that I saw. Maybe the "10-fold increase in U.S. marijuana production" mentioned in the article is the result of Mexican growers cultivating their crops in our national parks.
I wonder how this survery was conducted? Do they have a list of known growers/distributors/dealers to contact?
He calculated the producer price per pound of marijuana at $1,606 based on national survey data showing retail prices of between $2,400 and $3,000 between 2001 and 2005.
To: T.Smith
Can you imagine if it was actually legal to grow marijuana?
It used to be. I don't believe that they needed walls around it then. If the failed war on some drugs was put out of its misery, I suspect you could grow it and pretty much be left alone like back then because there would be so much of it. Plus, the people stealing it could just grow their own in backyard gardens if they wanted to.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:34:26 PM PST
by
mysterio
To: T.Smith
If it were legal to grow marijuana it wouldn't have a 17,000% markup caused entirely by the idiotic, unworkable drug prohibition in this country.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:35:30 PM PST
by
Jonathon Spectre
(Nazis believed they were doing good.)
To: fhlh
BigBooze will NEVER let that happen... they helped make it illegal in the first place.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:38:07 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: kddid
"U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion worth of marijuana annually ... But he said the government estimated overall U.S. illegal drug use at $200 billion annually."Meaning marijuana represents about 15% of the illegal drug market -- so much for "putting the drug dealers out of business" by legalizing marijuana.
Hell, they'd never even notice.
To: wolfcreek
I have heard that as being pretty much common knowledge.
But tell me, why did I have a couple buddies in college that just COULD NOT STOP smoking weed?
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:41:37 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. He's a Socialist. And unqualified.)
To: kddid
I'm in the wrong bidness.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:41:46 PM PST
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
To: Brad Cloven
"You mean we're smoking dogsh*t, man?"
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:42:00 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. He's a Socialist. And unqualified.)
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