Posted on 08/23/2014 10:28:08 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Individuals' diets and weights are no longer just their business, we have socialized medicine now.
Here is were the rubber meets the road.
If the producers, distributors, and retailers, make the claims that you are, they will be sued by a whole army of lawyers. RE: the tobacco lawsuits of a few years ago.
My question to the people investing in the MJ business is: what are the risks? And would they put that in writing. After all, if they believe that it is harmless, put it in writing.
Remember that you can't sue an illegal drug dealer but you CAN sue a legal producer, distributor, and retailer.
It is all about truth in advertising and one of the things about it now being legal is it is now subject to the same legal scrutiny as tobacco. And justifiably so.
They made money off of cigarette and tobacco taxes, too. AFAIK, all the states did. Not that that will stop a lawsuit to ‘defray medical expenses’ or some such nonsense. Like the tobacco settlement, diddley squat will be spent on sick smokers, but lawyers will get fat off the proceeds.
Either way, though, that wasn't a recreational use.
Down from 20.9% of the population in 2005 to 18.1% in 2012. I think part of the perception that there are fewer people smoking tobacco might be the incredible regulatory feeding frenzy about where a smoker can smoke.
I'm a former smoker who recalls the push for 'non-smoking areas' in restaurants who could not smoke in any restaurant or bar if I wanted to today without facing hefty fines.
It is a great case study for 'give them an inch, they'll take a mile' regulation, much like the EPA.
Bullshit.
“Sure not a problem. I just need about 6 million dollars and a friend in the state legisature. Easy peasy lemon squeasy.”
So you admit you already have to be rich to start farming?
I said nobody today is ‘getting’ rich farming, you have to already ‘be’ rich to start a working farm. Even the smaller family farms are mostly ‘old money’ that has been handed down through the generations. Farm land and equipment is too expensive today to borrow the money to start from scratch and expect to make it.
Did you miss the part where I said...totally legal and unregulated?
Make it as legal and unregulated to grow and sell as tomatoes are and re-crunch your numbers. I think you would find that an ounce of pot would fall to the $5 or less price range.
How many of those important extra chemicals are in the vaporizer? Or does it only dispense THC?
Seems like to get the full benefit you need to smoke raw weed. And maybe less filtering the better.
Not an expert, just following the logic.
Exactly.
The States are whores.
They’ll eagerly tax a product and benefit from its consumption and then demand a cut of the settlement.
Exactly.
duuuuude.. this is all like propa.. wut?.. ganda.. propaganda against the motherweed man.. it’ll cure everything and has no side effects and just because you’re inhaling a smoldering unregulated black tarry substance through filter-less paper doesn’t mean it’s bad or nothing.. it’s pure, man...
Now that I'm approaching retirement age, I can say that I've known plenty of "normal" people (professionals of all sorts) who have made responsible use of pot in the appropriate settings and situations throughout their lives/careers.
I detest the concept of government banning something from the many because a few don't have the self-control to not abuse said object/substance. There must be a better way for government to help those few than to spend billions trying to ban things from the general population.
Reeks.
I oppose anything that would increase the chances I’d have it forced up my nose.
Legal and unregulated (including untaxed) would likely mean those low prices. However, marijuana is more like tobacco than grocery-store produce. The government puts excise taxes on tobacco. Around here taxes account for 4/5th of the cost of tobacco products. It doesn’t tax produce, and even subsidizes much of it. Governments will tax pot, and taxes will be the bulk of the cost.
This should not be a federal issue.
I understand the theory behind bongs but I am not sure that it is true. Hookahs do not make smoking tobacco safer, why would bongs make pot safer? I doesn’t matter to me if it is safe or not, I am just asking.
I think an important issue that many choose to ignore, is that it does not have to be smoked. Can anyone even imagine a tobacco brownie?
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