Posted on 01/16/2015 7:20:24 AM PST by posterchild
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington's legal marijuana market opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn't have pot to sell. Prices were through the roof.
Six months later, the equation has flipped, bringing serious growing pains to the new industry.
A big harvest of sun-grown marijuana from eastern Washington last fall flooded the market. Prices are starting to come down in the state's licensed pot shops, but due to the glut, growers are — surprisingly — struggling to sell their marijuana. Some are already worried about going belly-up, finding it tougher than expected to make a living in legal weed.
"It's an economic nightmare," says Andrew Seitz, general manager at Dutch Brothers Farms in Seattle.
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Depends on who you ask.
Dad seeks excuses for his son and for his own parenting.
It is growing at the same rate as every other evil thing happening in this country, and that is because it is just another facet of the same underlying forces at work; the corruption of our people.
And your recommendation is that we fight the symptoms rather than the cause?
Yep its why Big Pharma wants it to remain illegal. Making whiskey is waaaaay harder than growing pot. YET making your own whiskey is illegal because the gub'ment couldn't tax it.
They cite safety concerns but that is a huge load of rubbish, its all about the moola.
When pot gets totally legalized and it will, there will be no tax boon. It will be grown in gardens right along side tomatoes.
He is like the homosexuals who want to get their foot in the door with "AIDS" legislation, but who won't rest until you are baking them cakes and presiding at their "wedding" ceremonies.
This guy is going for the whole enchilada, mass death, mass disability, and mass misery. All in the name of "freedom" or as rational people understand it, "Hedonism."
He is not "Liberty", he is "Libertine."
You think you can better persuade the rest of FR with denunciations of me than with rebuttals of my arguments? I have a higher opinion of FR. Speaking of whom ... to the rest of you: I don't advocate drugs - nor alcohol, tobacco, or a steady diet of fast food - but their legality, as befits a free people.
And where would they get such information? From the government reports that get filed about all the illegal consumption that was going on?
Think man, how can such a claim be even remotely true? Who would collect this information and how?
As with most things Libertarians say, it has the smell of made up bullsh*t. If you haven't noticed by now, let me point it out to you. Libertarians MAKE UP BULLSH*T and then repeat it endlessly until it gets spread by others. Eventually it take on the form of "Everybody knows that." Which is their whole intention for making it up in the first place. It is an ongoing effort to muddy the truth of things, and they've been working at it for decades.
As with most things Libertarians say, it has the smell of made up bullsh*t.
offwhite, DiogenesLamp says you're a Libertarian spouting made up bullsh*t.
They claim anything that they think they can sell to the gullible. Just as Homosexuals claim they aren't interested in children, so too do the Libertarians claim that they aren't interested in hard drugs, but their arguments justify hard drugs to the same extent that they justify marijuana.
You open that door, and you will get the whole thing. Not just a piece of it.
You meant that as a joke, right?
Or do you believe that in the past, folks used meth, cocaine and heroin because the pot was too expensive?
No one believes it will solve all of society's ills, but it will certainly solve one very serious ill. It will solve the problem of spreading addiction to more innocent people.
No, because having decided to break the law by using pot, they had one less reason to not use other drugs. Legalizing pot raises the barrier between it and other drugs.
No one believes it will solve all of society's ills, but it will certainly solve one very serious ill. It will solve the problem of spreading addiction to more innocent people.
Has it solved that problem to date?
Since neither exists and will never exist, my answer is ... no.
And your point corresponds with my own personal feelings on the subject. If you are rich, and you can afford to live without taking money out of someone else's pocket to pay for you food and shelter, and if you keep your drug usage to yourself and not try to spread it to anyone else, and if you have no dependents who must rely on you for their living, then I say go ahead and smoke, shoot-up, or pill pop your brains out.
Well it certainly seems to have *YOU* under control.
How do you propose keeping illicit drugs out the hands of those who want to buy it?
I'll ask again. Have you ever smoked marijuana? What makes you an expert on its effects?
Government cannot regulate morality...and PROHIBITION had to be repealed because it created a terrible black market for alcohol, that we still deal with today...it never got anyone to stop drinking, it only went underground and flourished. Marijuana is no different.
There is a big difference in Heroine and Cocaine addiction compared to Marijuana use. Of course hard core religious fanatics will object to that statement, but that is how it is. We have young criminals who got caught with a small amount of MJ and ended up being trained by the drug dealers in prison to become hard core dealers and ruined their lives.
There should be a balance in all things....not the force of compliance we see in ISLAM....that is what we had in the beginning of the War on Drugs....did it help? NO.
I do not do drugs, so don’t jump into that nonsense, I taught Criminal Justice so I know the statistics and what our history of the War on Drugs has taught us works and doesn’t work. Young lives ruined for no reason.
Well it certainly seems to have *YOU* under control.
Oh, snap. That ought to persuade the rest of FR.
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