Symon
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Joined: 11/24/2012 From: De Eye-lands, Mon Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy The only thing better would be 1. Collecting taxes on the 'regulated' business 2. Establishing some big, top-heavy bureaucracy to 'oversee' the regulation and 3. Eventually decrying the practice and supporting state class-action suits against the product some time down the line. The latter ostensibly because of some unforseen health issue, of course. Then they can use the class-action as some sort of windfall for the general fund. It's all about the children! Repeat as necessary. Well Duh! Grow it, market it, regulate it, just like tobacco. Make the marketers put nasty health warnings on the packages, scads of TV programs with celebrities looking down their noses at those oh-so-uncultured as to toke. You know, the usual stuff. Have to spend some money redoing the letters on the back of the stormtrooper's jackets to BATF&M. I think the present situation, with Mexical drug lords and a rampant DEA, as much more reactionary, brutal and socially disruptive than anything that would come from legalization. I'm older than most of you so I remember some way-back stuff, but if this can actually happen, we could get some stuff like we used to. It's all gone, now, because quantity is everything, but there was some righteous stuff back in the 60s. Much like the single malt craze, I can forsee some entrepeneurs fiddling with the plants and re-introducing some of the epic smokes: Red Panamanian, Acapulco Gold, Oaxaca, Tapachula, Michuacan; and where flowers and tip leaves means sonething, and none of that sticks and seeds doo doo. I would suggest that them of you who's risky put some money into High Times magazine. Do it quick because the mainstream has always (backyard) supported it, and once thit hits, High Times will be nothing but another political organ. So ride the wave. Be thoughtful, be righteous. Ciao. JWE
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