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MycoMayhem said:
OOOO I can't wait for bud with innate resistances to pesticides. NOT

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MycoMayhem said:
Their first priority won't be making fire bud, it will be making the plant hardier, shortening growth time, making it easy to cultivate on a mass scale. Unfortunately when someone like Monsanto comes along this is what happens. Bud quality will be last on the list of shit to do for people with money. This will help big pharma get involved tho, and that is the path to legalization.

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Who are "they"? As far as any country is concerned, this stuff is still illegal. I understand people who worry about "big pharma" or someone like Monsanto getting into the cannabis game, and that may seem like some far off inevitability; but we are still talking out of our asses when we vocalize such "worries", I think I get it though

The whole reason Big pharma never got in the cannabis game is because you cannot patent something like a cannabis strain. The article refers to it thus;

"regulation is going to come through genetics and fingerprinting of which strains are approved."

That does not mean that strains will be patented or owned, rather, it refers to cannabis strains that will, somehow or another, be "available" from a pool of "approved" strains. They would have to do this because once the plant is grown, it won't be exactly like the parent plant (unless its a clone). But once your clone your clone your getting more complicated, see what I mean? You can't help genetic variation between plants, once you consider growing conditions and all that jazz. It is just not something you can control like that.

And I remember the riots and protests that sparked from Monsanto's game years back, when trying to overtake the Indian rice market with its patented strain of rice. They did not succeed, I don't think they would with a regulated type of cannabis either. 


Whole point; we should be excited about stories like this, not revert to some silly thoughts about how the "man" is going to destroy weed. Fuck that dumb shit. The "man" has got us by the balls right now, how the fuck could it be worse!? People go to jail over cannabis. People kill each other over cannabis markets. We got no where to go but "up" from our current state of affairs. Don't be so worried about the "man" controlling weed; he already does, it needs to be free for fucks sake

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tobeacagefighter said:
Pot will not be legalized. The problem is our socioeconomic system. Don't be afraid to dream big guys. Check out the Venus Project

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I completely disagree, I think it will be legalized

And yea the venus project is sweet!!

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tobeacagefighter said:
Why? It's the top third crime. As in 1/3 of all people arrested are arrested for pot. That supports a whole industry of its own. Not to mention all of the industries that would face complete and utter destruction if it was legalized.

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Businesses, industries, politicians; they do not set the rules, they have to go with the times. They can only react to things, like changes in public perception and attitudes. They may fight change, brutally or through the back doors, but they do, sometimes, have to give up.

Perfect example is the civil rights movement (sry if that sounds off topic,but I think the parallel is important none the less). Take a state like Mississippi. They had institutionalized segregation to such a point that all businesses and trades were affected; school children even viewed videos in school about how "nice and acceptable" segregation was. Why it is the right thing to do, and the dangers of what would happen if that were to change. I am sure I don't need to school you on the details of how the various sit ins, bus boycotts, and general peaceful protests turned out for the African Americans (and others, whites included) who actually stood up to, say, the infamous Jacksonville police department. They got their asses kicked and booked.

But that shit changed. Segregation was an, to some, essential part of American life at hat time. It also only lasted for a small number of decades.

We have only had the schedule system since 1972. Think about that for a second. Really, the "drug war" was born then (though I know drug prohibition existed before this time, but this is when our modern American form of "prohibition" was really carved up and set out in stone). That is a measly 40 years. It is wild, let me tell you; young people, from later generations, have so easily come to "accept" the general idea that drugs are something that are...illegal. Its fucking crazy. Do you really, and by you I mean anyone reading this right now, accept that cannabis is illegal? Of course you don't, your probably high right now . It is not crazy to think that this state of affairs will sometime change; it is crazy to think that things could, somehow, never change.