Why not?
…Please discuss—Mary Jane
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because the crooks in government aren’t getting a cut yet, when they figure out how to, it will be legalized, bet on it.
Heheheh, like, yeah, heheh, I dunno man… heheheh.
I’ve been waiting almost 40 years for pot to be legalized. Don’t hold your breath.
Not this again.
they’ll need quick roadside tests (likely not involving blood) to determine level of impairment before this ever has a chance to even start to happen…..
Ehh, too lazy.
Then all the grow-ops run by NDP caucus members will have to switch to coca leaf and then it’s Katie, Bar The Door!
I think they do have a test, it’s a strip you lick and it goes red if there’s THC.
The 5-0 should make suspected puff ‘n drive assholes lick a cane toad. If you agree, you’re obviously too baked to be behind the wheel.
ONLY the most burnt out members of the pot community want this legalized. In its current quasi-legal state, ppl can puff anytime they want with a few common-sense restrictions. Let’s face it, once legal, it will be taxed to death; and what kinda moron wants to pay more in taxes? Pot smokers in Canada have it great already, some just don’t recognize.
why not? It will put the pulp and paper industry on it’s ass. The Dow Corning’s and Exxon’s too. The whole world economy could come crashing down should we legalize marijane. Clean water and old growth forests can’t hold a candle to the poly-carbon industry when counting dollars and cents… and they’d have you think marijane’s pharmacological properties is what keeps it illegal. Most of you would concede to a “luxury” tax simply because we can smoke it. Imagine paying such a tax to create rope, lubricant or plastic with it. Pot is good for SO many other things yet most Canadians recognize the only real legally sanctioned use of the plant… as a medicine. Imagine Canadian government “protecting the people” from… a t-shirt, a natural expoxy, an enviro-bag, chicken feed… God help us.
because its a pain in the ass to deal with these burned out idiots who think they’re entitled to everything because they fried their own brains and racked up a bunch of charges now can’t fathom a job or get out from under the criminal record.
trying to get a straight answer out of a fucking pot head is like pulling teeth. they just stare at you with that half conscious smirk.
and, if they stopped selling prime time in singles, because it entices kids to smoke. there is no burning chance in hell they are gonna legalize pot.
get a fuckin grip you stoned out loser.
holy shitcakes, stars… you have FUCK ALL for experience in dealing with pot heads OBVIOUSLY. I know LOTS of professionals who much prefer a little refer to end the night over an evening drink and I don’t know ANYBODY whose personality actually improves while drinking. Pot used as a drug requires the same kind of responsibility as any other drug. Personally, I don’t think it’s up to the government to decide who can handle it and who can’t, not when so many environmental solutions are wrapped up in such a commodity. I invite you, six stars, to get educated beyond your dopey big brother and his stoner friends. Start with the composition of a WW2 parachute soldier’s uniform.
I would agree that pot smokers here nowadays do have it pretty good. I think you have to be caught with something like, more than 15 grams for charges to start to get serious. And if you have more than 15 on you then you’re probably selling it, or you really need to cut back anyway :P. I think police can still confiscate it if it’s under 15, but that’s nothing. Well, unless you’re an umemployed pot smoker.
Which nationality Kay.
Shut up, kay.
It’s kinda hard to tax it to death when you just GROW YOUR OWN.
Kay’s right, though there should be a clarification between hemp and weed.
Hemp can be made into: fuel for vehicles, oil for machines, paper, fibre board for housing, food for livestock and humans, clothing, diapers (absorbent part and coating), a rubber substitute, rope, and much more.
It is stronger than wood, naturally bug and disease resistant, annually renewable, and an acre of land produces four times as much usable product as trees. The biomass people should be looking at hemp not trees, and leave our forests intact.
On the weed side of things we have: treatment for HIV/AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, anorexia, MS, gastro-intestinal disorders, migraines; general relaxation and socialization by the masses; reduced violence, and interesting convo after a puff. The only people shown to have adverse side-effects are schizophrenics.
And why isn’t pot legal in Canada? Because Harper’s trying to make everyone into a criminal and it doesn’t serve big pharma very well. Why isn’t hemp in cultivation? Because the big boys in oil, plastics, and mining don’t want it and Canada (currently) only does business with big business.
Hemp is in cultivation. At least that’s what my hemp farmer friend tells me.
Sorry OL, speaking in large terms, not specifics. You’re right.
Sure, legalize it… Weed can be the new cigarettes! Taxed to hell and back, with all the yummy chemicals to make it addictive and most likely deadly.
Giv’r bitches, giv’r all ya got
It’s because ol’ Stevie hasn’t smoked a J yet.
http://www.greenoutlaws.com
Firstly:
When animals are preserved for dissection by students, they are all neatly embalmed and dyed. Occasionally some slip through the cracks, and when the poor unsuspecting student cracks the skin of his specimen with a scalpel, a smelly soup of partially decayed organs all blended together spills out.
Nice Goin’ Fat is that soup.
Secondly, this bitch is an obvious troll. I guess The Coast have made some friends since that whole fire department thing…
Thirdly, LIFE SUCKS, you are fooling yourself if you do not believe that the majority of marijuana profits end up in the hands of the people that make up the “authorities”. Most commercial cultivation could not proceed without their cooperation and assistance.
It is slavery. Why would they ever give up slavery for tax? Bad move…
legalize it…tax it to death to subsidize university costs so that more kids can afford university to become potheads and drop out anyway???…not sure..but hey if they ever do they better tax the ever living shit out of it…about 90% of all the people i have ever met that smoked pot more than say 3-4 times a year…either were or became a complete waste of flesh…
Wow. Six stars is either a very skilled troll or has completely bought the indoctrination program. Either way, pretty amazing. The mind is an extremely pliable thing.
oldhand, you’re back! How was your wedding and honeymoon with your first cousin?
shaker542: I don’t know who you count in your circle of friends and/or acquaintances, but all of the people I know who smoke pot (and most of them far more often than 3-4 times per year) are: highly skilled, professionals (some are business owners, doctors, lawyers, professors, engineers, carpenters, etc), highly motivated, home owners, community driven, parents, and generally good people. Just sayin’.
Alrighty now…everyone sing…(the very excellent Peter Tosh’s ‘Bush Doctor’)…”Legalize marihuana…up here in Canada…” Oh yeah, it IS legal! For patients who require it.
In South Africa everyone is permitted to grow up to ten plants. Result: pot is dirt cheap and readily available eliminating the underground market all together.
I’d rather interact with a pot smoker any day over a drinker. Drunkards are slurring, disgusting, puking, staggering, out-of-control and pitiable. Yet this is viewed as socially acceptable! What a weird world we live in.
I mentioned no such thing, Three. Unless you’re a politician there is NO distinction between pot and hemp. The only distinction is what we use it for… some breeds are heavy on stock making for a good textile manufacturing. Other breeds are flower heavy and ideal for harvesting plant oils, some are tall making for a good field protector or anchoring plant, still others are short, stalky and good for smokin’, chicken feed, baking, whatever… If there’s a distinction to be made over pot versus hemp it should be akin to yellow roses versus red roses… they’re all fuckin’ roses.
Pot is not stronger than wood… it’s a softwood.
Pot is not “naturally bug [resistant]”. My NS grower is dealing with plant killing bugs right now and they’re a buzz-kill to say the least.
“The only people shown to have adverse side-effects are schizophrenics”… wrong again. The CBC report would tell you sometimes the preteen smokes a single joint and BECOMES
schizophrenic. Smoking another, I’m sure, would make them feel better since the damage is all ready done.
Not trying to change your noble position on the subject, Three, but have the facts for your arguments.
What’s really amazing is the only legally sanctioned use of pot/hemp in Canada is pharma. Go ahead, try and find hemp textile manufactured in Canada. You can find bamboo but not hemp which has to be imported so, what I’d like to know is, what are Canadian hemp farmers growing and what are they doing with their harvest? I’ve spoken with the Hemporium and all their textiles are imported, not manufactured. They make soaps and lotions from harvested seed but where are the really useful products like rope, canvass, lubricant and fuel for my car, etc?
This one’s for veeny-Your total ignorance of the law is astounding.Before you go flapping your gums you should do a little research.The crime bill Stephen Harper is proposing increases pot penalties right across the board.Did you know that passing a joint is considered trafficing.Under these new laws any offence involving trafficing is punishable by imposing a mandatory 6 month jail sentence,yes mandatory-no discretion by the judge whatsoever.And it just escalates from there-why does the government need these increases in sentencing-their answer is that it is not their intention to put anyone in jail for passing a joint.Well if it is not their intention why have a law that say it is precisely their intention-black and white .Besides,for the record ,a Canadian has already done 3 months for passing a joint or “trafficing”.And he did it to prove the very point I am argueing right now.His name is Marc Emery.He is paying attention.You are not.Regardless of what you say about pot use,it pales to the misery caused by alcohol.We are supposed to live in a free and equitable society.As long as alcohol is legal there is no rational case for pot to be illegal,Hypocracy is hypocracy.Go educate yourself because you sound like a moron. Seriously. George W.Kush/Indus Guys
From The Sun:
Dopey Thieves Mix Up The Pot
HUNDREDS of dopey pot-heads are laying siege to a hemp farm – thinking the monster 8ft plants will get them HIGH.
Police have had to disperse crowds after the crop, part of the cannabis family, grew so tall in heavy rain it is visible from the M25.
But hemp plants, used to make paper and textiles, contain almost no THC – the ingredient that gets smokers high.
Farmer Adrian Williams said his plants, which have the same aroma as illicit varieties, had been besieged for a month.
He added: “People must be brain-dead to think we grow marijuana by the UK’s busiest road.
“Sometimes half a dozen people a time are filling up their cars.”
Three men, aged 18, 20 and 25, were arrested then bailed yesterday on suspicion of theft from Cattlegate Farm, near Enfield, North London.
a.france@the-sun.co.uk
hahaha might as well smoke catnip. tho the growers using black bears to guard the crop were very funny, better off using donkeys… heehaw