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Posted on 08/23/2014 10:28:08 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
#6. There's a Whole Industry Dedicated to Just Making Weed Pretty
#5. The "Safe, All-Natural Drug" Could Actually Be Full of Serious Toxins
#4. Weed Can Be Fairly Dangerous to Handle
#3. Even Where It's Legal, It's Not Legal
#2. The Legal Pot Industry Is Hurting the Environment
#1. The Growers Don't Want It to Be Legal
(Excerpt) Read more at cracked.com ...
Duh! Actually it is worse than tobacco because the user holds the smoke, with nasty toxins and carcinogens, in their lungs longer. From what I have read, pot can have even nastier toxins than cigs.
Worst of all — the promoters are lying and covering up these important facts.
But is it inevitable that once the health issues are mainstreamed, the lawyers will see dollars signs and will go after the growers, distributors, and sellers. Just like they did with the tobacco companies a few years ago.
That is Democrat thinking, at its worse.
Here is the irony for ya.
Back when the states were suing the tobacco companies, Colorado was in line for their cut of the settlement.
Their justification was that health care costs were higher because of tobacco and they needed to be reimbursed.
I wonder what their explanation will be when it is clear that pot, like tobacco, causes serious health issues. AND they made money, in the form of taxes, off of the sales of pot.
Point #3 is actually the most interesting, since a peculiar precident has been set where states can flout federal law regarding controlled substances, and everyone just looks the other way. But if it’s to control illegal aliens, the feds claim that domain to mismanage like rabid bit-bulls.
There are a lot of people who deal in marijuana who are very nasty people. They are willing to destroy property, hurt individuals, even kill and maim to protect their grows and or territory. It is very unlikely, were the drug to be fully legalized, that these nasty individuals would become productive valued members of society. Organized crime did not go legit just because prohibition was repealed. It is funny how people are willing to boycott corporations for perceived wrongful practices, but few if any will forego their drugs to affect the nasty growers or dealers.
Article seems as though it was written by a person who drinks a lot of alcohol and doesn’t like anything about the alternative.
Correction:
#1. The Growers, the government and drug cartels don’t want it to be legal.
For those with smaller brains, they’re all making too much money by keeping it illegal.
Except that with the use of a vape -- or edible for that matter -- there is no smoke, no combustion, no combustion by-products. Interestingly, here in WA state, I have not even smelled mj since it became legal.
That may be the case -- probably is on the black market side -- but the people here in WA who are growing for the state are mostly established growers of other crops and certainly not "nasty people".
With tobacco, you can avoid any nasty properties due to the inhaling of tar and other combustion products by using an e-cigarette. So, to those who worry about health issues induced by smoking marijuana, I have to ask, “Are you technology-hating Luddites? Why can’t they vape?”
All righty. So let’s take these line by line and I may even get zotted but, what the heck.
6. There’s a Whole Industry Dedicated to Just Making Weed Pretty
it should be made pretty. The underground product is a nasty business and one never knows what they are truly getting.
If it packaged like a regular commercial product it will and should be regulated.
#5. The “Safe, All-Natural Drug” Could Actually Be Full of Serious Toxins
uhmmmm No. Most dispensaries want a completely clean product that is grown without chemicals. As such, they pay top dollar for weed grown in hydroponic environment.
the people growing hydroponics care about the environment and the product they deliver and don’t want to introduce chems that are harmful to the environment and the user.
#4. Weed Can Be Fairly Dangerous to Handle
Really? How so? I was a Sheriff Explorer for 4 years and spent my summers cutting the stuff down during raids.
I think it must have made me a Republican but, other than that I have no ill effects, that I’m aware of.
#3. Even Where It’s Legal, It’s Not Legal
And the Feds are wrong. This is a state issue and the Feds seem oh so willing to tell the states how to manage their highways and even telling em “hands off the border brothers”, despite the tremondous cost and impact of a huge swath of immigrants coming here, when we won’t or can’t support our own vets, elderly and truly needy.
#2. The Legal Pot Industry Is Hurting the Environment
puhleeze. ...that is so much B.S.
the legal pot industry uses not even a 10th the chemicals used in th3 illegal trade.
In fact, the worst they do is use R.O. water and return it to the sewer minus whatever crap came out of the tap to begin with.
#1. The Growers Don’t Want It to Be Legal
Responsible growers, who see this as a business opportunity absolutely want it to be legal.
hell, they want it scrutinized to keep everything on the up and up and even taxed, so our communities benefit.
As it stands now, I can walk into any wilderness and run across someones grow.
it is booby trapped, there is feces everywhere, chemicals used, water diverted from streams and rivers and I’m sure a few innocent people have been “lost” running into a grow and curiously walking through it.
the illegal trade is violent and devastating to our ecology.
tobacco is grown safely and poses none of the risks associated with an illegal operation.
pot should be grown the same way and distributed the same, with controls similar to liquor.
A legal industry will erode cartel business and the world will be much safer.
Just as government took over the liquor industry after prohibition ended they have taken over the numbers racket (LOTTO) and soon will take over the entire drug trafficking business. They also demonized the tobacco industry and then decided to get in on the profits in a big way.
By take over I mean the government reaps the lions share of all profits from formerly prohibited practices. Anyone who tries to keep the government from reaping their cut is put in jail.
The government has killed people, maimed people, destroyed lives by putting non-violent offenders behind bars for long periods...and now they take over the once illegal industries!?
Am I the only one that sees the evil in all of this??
#7 Second hand weed smoke smells like crap.
Colorado citizens petitioned legalization onto the ballot. The People legalized it, not the legislature.
Illegal trade in alcohol and cigarettes continues even though they are legalized and regulated.
The dangerous production of “ear wax” extraction is Darwin award material. It is the process of extracting the pure THC by emptying cans of liquid butane through tubes of packed weed. The results are hillariously explosive.
Absolutely agree with you. If people want to smoke tobacco, drink alcohol or smoke MJ, it is their bodies, and their business only. .
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