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ringo

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Message 7 of 107 (393482)
04-05-2007 11:47 AM

Reply to: Message 5 by Phat
04-05-2007 6:39 AM

Phat writes:

Pot should be legalized for people over 18. The reason being that it would deprive the criminal element of as big a profit.

When Prohibition ended, the gangsters didn't magically disappear- they moved into other enterprizes (see The Sopranos). Legalizing pot would only increase the labour pool for the meth industry.

When I was a teenager, nearly all the pot in Canada was imported. The authorities cracked down on smuggling and today it's nearly all home grown. (Ironic twist of fate there: jobs moving from Mexico to Canada long before NAFTA.)

You can't pump all the water out of the ocean. You can't stop one lucrative business and not expect another to take its place.

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Message 15 of 107 (394585)
04-12-2007 12:18 PM

Reply to: Message 14 by Nuggin
04-12-2007 11:57 AM

Re: Where to draw the line

Nuggin writes:

If you can pick it, you can do what you want it with.

So I can grow a thousand acres of marijuana right beside the highway?

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Message 19 of 107 (394616)
04-12-2007 2:38 PM

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04-12-2007 2:17 PM

Re: Where to draw the line

Nuggin writes:

Though, as an agricultural enterprise, I'm sure you would still have to deal with zoning issues and whatever other agencies have sway over crop growing, what pesticides you can use, etc. etc. etc.

The issue I was hinting at when I said "beside the highway" is: What if a few thousand of my closest friends and relatives and neighbours (and maybe even a few complete strangers) decide to "just pick it"? You might put the drug-enforcement agents out of work, but the highway patrol would have to hire them just to manage the parking.

Legalization won't necessarily solve any problems - it'll just change them to different problems. And politicians are slow to recognize new problems, let alone deal with them.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, don't hold your breath waiting for the drug underground to just disappear, either. One morning I'll wake up to find my crop baled up and heading down the road.

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Message 23 of 107 (394739)
04-12-2007 11:11 PM

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04-12-2007 8:57 PM

Re: Where to draw the line

Nuggin writes:

First off, if pot is legal, like tobacco is legal, there wouldn't be much insentive for people to be raiding the crops.

Yeah, you probably got me there.

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