the tobacco companies had better be ready because what i want is non-psychoactive cannabis smokes.. "No Cancer Fags" i will call them...
i have a disagreement on the point of new smokers - i have a feeling that most of the adult age people who want to try weed or continue to use it already do so - otherwise you must say that the prohibition fear of cops has worked and actually stopped people from so much as considering marijuana.. i don't think that is the case - i think that some people would even use less if the subculture didn't have to exist so strongly between dealers and smokers - less times where everyone has to run off somewhere to hide and that becomes the activity.. know what i mean? also kids for sure will have less access to it once the street dealers give up on it.. after all - it is still the hardest drug to conceal and if it has the lowest street value there goes the dealers selling to kids and the underage dealers as well pretty much.. i almost consider the 'gateway drug' theory partly true since, yes, if a teen in the city goes to buy a bag from a random dealer they may well be exposed to the presence of other drugs - the dealer may try to sell them something else..
so - my theory is that pot use will stay the same.. the media may try to make it look like use goes up with fake stats - so i am prepared for that.. and there goes the 'social cost' line of bullshit - the ONLY social cost in those terms is the money going to worthless pot-rehab programs - and if they weren't forcing young people into these camps as an opt-out from hard time they would not even exist...
going by the idea that stoners are already stoners - many of us demand quality smoke for pipes and bongs and what have you - stoners at large will not simply settle for some ground up seeds and stems and call it our planet's future correct? we will either take advantage of the fact that is grown locally or grow it ourselves..
the pot industry is full of profits waiting to be had - $100,000,000,000 in product alone? add to that all of the side industries of shops, cafes and other venues - international trade - breeding - and add to that untold fortunes in hemp production - what i see is a situation where most everyone who is already involved in pot and depending on income from it can go legit and be above board so that everyone wins..
And like hobby beer brewers, hobby cannabis growers who
do not sell should be left alone. - i agree on this - but, just because this first ever possibility seems to have limits for the home growers does not mean we should turn it down holding out for something better - there will be further compromise until everything is settled in the long run when you take into account to real implication of letting people grow foliage in the garden of their property.. so green - i can often see it from my clear cut - i can't stand it - it even makes a pleasant smell sometimes and i don't want my children exposed to pleasant feelings until they are long since dead...
on a side note i want to add about hemp - it has been the secret "edison's bulb" of industry at large since outlawing pot - it can supply gasoline, plastic, steel-like fibre, cloth, paper - you name it / we import it from china made from oil - also did you know that cannabis was the #1 animal feed for all farm animals all over the world before Anslinger whacked it down? i'm sure it is far more healthy and cheaper than the crap we funnel down them now... birds that eat hemp seeds live 20% longer and it once was a large portion of their diet in north america.. not so much now for some reason...
