Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars

[Guest]

Looking back at my crappy response brings me back to how I was feeling that morning,like everything had fallen apart.The feds were mopping up Cali and moving into Oregon and New Mexico..It's disheartening when its safer to be a commercial grower in Florida than a state sponsored and unfortuntaely registered med. grower.I'm almost 50 and have seen this fight go on for so long now I'm just a little disgusted I guess.As a social liberal but a supporter of the war with conservative leanings,I have to now conclude my gov't will probably cage me before some Saudi blows me up.This requires me to vote democratic which is frickin killin me.I'd vote for Ron is there were a prayer.

 

[KingRalph]

Ron Paul IS your prayer.

schwarzy would be wise to accept but he's corporate kabal shill slated for presidency. not happenin. ugh the thought makes me ill.

billions in tax revenue lost. and when it does get legalized, people at the beginning will have a chance to set up ground level legal businesses that can really do well with it, don't hafta worry about phillip morris taking it all yknow

peace n green thumbs all.

 

[Greens]

Come on Arnie! You can do it!

Were slacking to legalize here in Canada, so go California GO!

 

[gamehaze2]

looks like arnie guna rob some druggies and throw them in the overpacked prison but i ono about this man its a really nice idea but theres sooooo many angles i just like the idea hopfully he makes the city like that pic up there

 

[Elevator Man]

I think the fundamental problem is that it's very difficult to introduce a new drug to the retail market 'just like that'. Alcohol legislation went hand in hand with consumption to a large degree, meaning that the market is now heavily regulated, and therefore financial 'contributions' from booze can be legitimately used. With cannabis, no such legal market exists, and to launch a regulatory system for a 'new' recreational drug, and to ring-fence finances that might be accrued by it is just too darn complicated, never mind morally confusing.

In Britain now the anti-smoking lobby (tobacco) is so shrill and hysterical that no smoked drug will ever get clearance from the moral majority, despite all the obvious contradictions inherent in legislating between the relative moral values of gases. That is where we are now. Barbeques, traffic exhausts, industrial emissions etc, are 'good' fumes. Tobacco smoke is 'bad' fumes. Smokes and particulates are now classified in real-time by ordinary citizens empowered as smoke-assessors as 'good' or 'bad'. Think about it. It's completely deranged. This is meant to be an intelligent country.

Ironically, the classic prophesy of tobacco companies managing and retailing cannabis products is now so laughable and unfeasible that one wonders why it is is still being promoted as the likely outcome.

So to expect rational legislation from these goons is not only time-wasting, but counter-productive. How would a government manage cannabis and its resultant tax windfalls? Like they do now - badly and hypocritically. There's no retail framework that could be applied to cannabis that would fit in with current legislation, as it would be so restrictive as to be pointless.

You could sell it mail-order via heavily-regulated private companies, who own a commercial license. Or you could allow licensed growing by individuals, for non-commercial use, as I proposed in my article. That way tax is still raised, the public keeps its basic rights, and the unfortunate contradictions inherent in retailing drugs (as currently exists with alcohol) don't arise. Then all legal and health attention can be focused specifically on proper medical use and research. As with all medicines, cannabis will need strict regulation, but for personal recreational use, it can be left up to the individual to determine the 'quality' of the product they produce, and ultimately, consume.

 

[Guest]

Good post.I also only see legislation to permit licensed growers for personal use as the only realistic solution to normalization.This way taxes can be levied and responsible guidelines put in place,such as any room containing MJ growing or dried must be kept locked if children under 18 are present.This can easily be done by intelligent people recognizing the need for change and in a position to do something about it.Unfortunately the demonization of todays indoor "supererb" doesnt help matters..