What are we Thinking !? Largest Cash Crop Illegal!

by René | April 22, 2007 at 02:48 pm
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Facts about Pot:
from report released by Jon Gettman in DrugScience.org
Marijuana Production in the US
Pot is the Largest Cash Crop in the US. Do I need to repeat that?
Pot crop=$35.8 billion a year!
Corn is $25 billion, Soybeans $17, Hay $12, Vegetables $11, wheat $7, and cotton $5, year. And it's the one crop that doesn't need the vanishing bees!


Despite best efforts of the DEA in seizing crops and pot, and using the
Natl Guard to help eradicate crops, our largest CASH crop is still pot.
And as heavily penalized as it is by the feds and many states, marijuana use is still growing.


There are no reliable research proving that pot is harmful, just the
opposite, hundreds of reports and research projects proving the
usefulness of pot for many medical reasons, among others.

It costs the government megabucks to keep it criminalized, with a double heavy toll on the population that uses.

But joy to the penal system now privatized. They like the easily
controlled drug user inmates, they'll keep those, thank you, and let
the bad ones go, perverts and violents. Have you noticed?

The biggest hidden opponents I would guess to be the pharmaceuticals, who are also after vitamins and health food


The report lists the effectiveness of use of marijuana or cannabinol to
be well-established for nausea and vomiting from cancer drugs, for
anorexia and HIVAIDs patients, and to be confirmed for glaucoma,
bipolar, Alzheimers, aids those suffering from spinal cord injuries,
MS, chronic neuralgic pain, depression.
Clinical Studies

And still the feds don't want to respect the rights of state to legalize the use and production of medical marijuana.
 

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Jordan Yerman

Great post, René.

Think of the ease with which we could create paper and textiles.

Think of the serious extra cash the government could raise by taxation of pre-packaged spliffs.

I think that decriminalization (or, better yet, legalization) would drive the price of illegal weed through the floor, thus lowering the incentive for dealers to deal. Meanwhile, your local BC Liquor Store (or whatever) could have a separate cannabis section; the laws for driving/public behavior whilst under the influence are already in place, after all.

I'm sure that manufacturers of snack foods would welcome such a legal sea change as well!

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René

And this crop is the one that does not need the vanishing bees!

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Jordan Yerman

That's an excellent point, actually. The cannabis plant is indeed self-propagating. Also, it can grow almost anywhere, not just in teenagers' basements but in forests, high desert, mountains, etc: Very hardy and versatile.

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muddled

The American Constitution needs to be ammended.  Remove the right to bare arms and replace it with the right to smoke pot.  I'd bet there would be at least 32 more innocent people alive in Virginia right now.


 

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chaz

Muddled, 

 

I wouldn't bet the HEMP FARM on that.  At least one, died this weekend on the highway. Imagine if a Bus Driver went flying off an ovepass, stoned.

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chaz

Rene`

Now we need to complete the NAFTA circle of life and export the more potent hybrid pot to the rest of our friends who've been importing their sh*t here.

FREE TRADE gotta love it. 

My best idea is to use the crop for BIO DEISEL, imagine the exhaust, we'll all pay to inhale those carbon offsets. Global Warming "far out maaan"?

 

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René

Yeah, and some of the new Biofuel breakthroughs I have posted about can use just about any organics to create biofuels: wastes, any kind of organics, like of course the really fast growing hemp plants that the Navy used to use to make rope and that the Mid-West used to grow as a crop for the Navy.

That kind of hemp still grows wild in Nebraska, Kansas and other mid-west states. It's a weed!

But it's the fastest growing renewable resource that can be used to make cloth, cardboard, paper, among other things, and now biofuel!

And a biofuel that does not produce carbon dioxide in the production or the use.

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