The most marijuana-friendly nations

[eots]

I think I read 80% of cartels money is from weed.
Legalize the herb and cartels shrink big time.

I read it was about half their income..

 

[eots]

if each individual was legally allowed to grow four or five plants there would be no criminal element invoked in weed anymore than growing tomatoes or carrots in your garden

 

[Bullfighter]

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they are not selling much weed either.. cocaine and heroin are the lucrative markets for smugglers

Then why are they wasting all that valuable space in trucks transporting pot?

You really should do more research if you want to pretend to know what you are talking about.

 

[editec]

Further, any taxes levied will cost less than the army of thugs and smugglers necessary to get marijuana to the US via cartels.

Not in Maine.

Good theory but as the dope is provided by a state monopoly and the price is not market driven, illegal dope is still cheaper than government sanctioned dope.

 

[topspin]

exponentially more people smoke weed than do cocaine, it's a rich/poor man's drug. Weed is for the middle class.

 

[Douger]

Tabacco companies will do the selling not Mexian cartels.

And you'll have to take a mortgage out on your house just to buy a few grams that are taxed like cigarettes.

Damn, BullShitter. Banks give second mortgages on house trailers ?

 

[Bullfighter]

[Damn, BullShitter. Banks give second mortgages on house trailers ?

If you're LA RAZA, the US Treasury is yours for the taking!

 

[Bullfighter]

exponentially more people smoke weed than do cocaine, it's a rich/poor man's drug. Weed is for the middle class.

Then why do the teenie beaners smoke it here?

 

[JBeukema]

Further, any taxes levied will cost less than the army of thugs and smugglers necessary to get marijuana to the US via cartels.

Not in Maine.

Good theory but as the dope is provided by a state monopoly and the price is not market driven, illegal dope is still cheaper than government sanctioned dope.

So.... why aren't the cartels moving massive shipments of illegally grown and transported tobacco for the black market?

Same principle, and tobacco's taxed all to hell.

 

[eots]

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they are not selling much weed either.. cocaine and heroin are the lucrative markets for smugglers

Then why are they wasting all that valuable space in trucks transporting pot?

You really should do more research if you want to pretend to know what you are talking about.

about 50 to 60 % the trade is in cocaine and heroin those are the facts

 

[Bullfighter]

Further, any taxes levied will cost less than the army of thugs and smugglers necessary to get marijuana to the US via cartels.

Not in Maine.

Good theory but as the dope is provided by a state monopoly and the price is not market driven, illegal dope is still cheaper than government sanctioned dope.

So.... why aren't the cartels moving massive shipments of illegally grown and transported tobacco for the black market?

Same principle, and tobacco's taxed all to hell.

I just happened to notice in the store today that a pack of KOOLs is $7.75.

I should have stocked up on cigarettes in the 60s when they were around $2.50 a carton. DAMN!

IMAGINE: Cigarettes went up 3100%.

 

[MikeK]

Wait a minute...drug mafias are fighting a war over selling a legal drug?

I rather doubt that.

You doubt it because you are capable of reason.

The War on Drugs has been so well-finaced and so intense that the propaganda effect has been comparable to hypnosis in that otherwise intelligent people have become incapable of pushing the veil aside and observing the the most obvious facts.

 

[eots]

have you ever smoked a dried tobacco leaf ? it is nothing like commercial grown ,treated and cured tobacco ...weed requires nothing more than being dried..if it is legal to grow for personal use it will be very cheap I can get from a half pound to a pound of top quality bud from a single large plant in a green house

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYpuorPlYZw&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Bullfighter]

have you ever smoked a dried tobacco leaf ? it is nothing like commercial grown ,treated and cured tobacco ...weed requires nothing more than being dried..if it is legal to grow for personal use it will be very cheap I can get from a half pound to a pound of top quality bud from a single large plant in a green house

So gardening is your hobby?