Marijuana 'grow houses' booming (CANUCK STONER ALERT)

The Ottawa Citizen ^ | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 | Janice Tibbetts

[Sparta]

I've got the flame suit on, so flame away!!!

[HELLRAISER II]

It's really simple actually, just legalize marajuana then the growers don't have to use faulty power connections to grow their dope. They could then legally get their power turned on and monitored correctly so that there isn't any safety issues to deal with. But we all know that this won't provide any money to spend for the politicians so it will never happen. After all money is more important to them than the safety of their constituents.

[anatolfz]

Have you seen "Trailer Park Boys"? Set somewhere near Dartmouth, Nova Scotia...

[Sparta]

But we all know that this won't provide any money to spend for the politicians so it will never happen.

Yeah it will. The revenue from taxes for growing it alone will be astronmical. Never mind selling it, consuming it, or when the process repeats itself because of the many uses for marijuana and hemp.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

The grow operations now bring in billions of dollars in profit annually. Police say 95 per cent of them are run by criminal gangs, who smuggle their marijuana to the U.S. for sale.

So how many billion dollars of U.S. money is going to Canada? I think if I were a Canadian economist, I'd say we change nothing, too!

P.S. Hey Sparta, I like the keywords, but that would be gAnga, not gOnga.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Oops, that would be gAnja, not gOnja...

[HELLRAISER II]

Let me rephrase the statement "It won't provide any money for the WOD politicians."

[bigfootbob]

If you look at the $$$$ involved, Canadastan cannot afford to outlaw these Junior Joe Kennedy types. They'll probably figure a way to prevent power theft and all will be happy.

[Sparta]

Canadastan

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

Sorry my friend, I like POD better (People's Dominion of Canadastan.)

[Fish out of Water]

bump

[Sparta]

POD=PDC

[Lael]

If you look at the $$$$ involved, Canadastan cannot afford to outlaw these Junior Joe Kennedy types. They'll probably figure a way to prevent power theft and all will be happy

LOL!!!

[Trailerpark Badass]

Another main concern is that the operations release chemical toxins and fumes ...

What, oxygen?

[tacticalogic]

What, oxygen?

Why not? Pure oxygen is toxic, so it must be a toxin. I've seen it argued here that mj must be toxic, because it's intoxicating, so I think we have the logical groundwork already laid.

[Wolfie]

Everything they're complaining about here are direct artifacts of Prohibition. People never learn.

[HELLRAISER II]

One only has to look at Alcohol to see that prohibition did not & will not work, it's only a matter of time.

[ZOOKER]

Long ago (in my wilder days) I knew a man who grew his own, in his own house.

He had the crawl space dug out under his house for headroom, topsoil brought in, grow lights, even water lines for irrigation.

Electricity wasn't an issue --- he only grew enough for his own use and therefore his lights compared to maybe one extra major appliance.

I don't know about toxicity, but the smell that permeated his whole house was unmistakeable. He wasn't fooling anyone with a nose.

[hove]

Ahhh....prohibition and unbridled capitalism. An amazing formula for getting rich quick! Let's be sure to keep people from growing their own pot. Let's be sure to keep up the war on pot. Let's be sure that the business stays obscenely profitable!!

[Wolfie]

Canadian Police are fighting for their jobs, that's all. In certain parts of Canada, they can't even enforce possession laws because the people won't stand for it. Its been de-facto legalized in B.C., for example. The whole "dangerous grow house" gambit is just the latest in a dying cause.

[HELLRAISER II]

Just recently a fellow here in my home town got busted for basically the same kind of operation, except he was growing his in an underground room that was under a Farrowing pen (Pig Nursery). The police were baffled by the case with this guy because he obviously wasn't working, yet spending a great bit of money and yet he never left the house. The way he got busted was by the local power company finding out that he illegally hooked up & stole power through the power lines. By the way it does take considerable amounts of Electricity for hydroponics.