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 The year Cannabis is legalized 
#15800312 - 02/12/12 08:52 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Short question - how soon will it be? (your guess)
I live in Antarctica where there is no such thing as medical pot shops down at my street corner where I can go in and pick my favorite green right off the shelves. Fortunately, these actually exist in Cali and I assume along much of the west coast, in Colorado.. etc.
Now what, 10-20 years ago NONE of this existed? At the rate we are going, when will it finally be accepted nationally (or internationally)? When will EVERYONE finally be FREE?
Technology is coming such a long way, and we just keep getting closer and closer to that breakthrough point in human history where these good changes are finally starting to happen. Too bad the Federal govt still wants to lock up every stoner on this planet.
Now I ask because, well, I'm fairly young, I'm thinking of career paths, and honestly, growing medicals or at least somehow being associated with the Cannabis industry would be very interesting to me.
Other than prohibition, alcohol has pretty much been legal the whole time. So all that time, those funny simple people that like making their HOPS and throwing it in the fermenter and making booze (shit I dunno the process, I'm more of a pot-freak than booze-hound) but anyway these people have been safely and successfully making their booze without trouble the whole time. And I can't be that upset; when the end product is a tasty cold beer, I can't hate too much. But why is the process for growing a beautiful flower so much more difficult? It's more of a passion I'd like to pursue, but I don't want to get involved as long as it's still "criminal"
If I set it as a life goal to get involved in the Cannabis industry somehow, after a few years could my dreams safely come to fruition? Or is this something I shouldn't count on too much?
Shit I'd go so far as being a hemp farmer if that ever even became legal, just because I know of all the benefits even that could provide to the world. Maybe just grow my little personal med stash  and mass produce acres of hemp. That'd be the dream 
So again, is it worth the mental energy to pursue a dream in the MJ industry? People in Cali and whatnot have actually grown to SEE these changes first hand as they unfold - I haven't had the same opportunities to see this, but I do have a little background information and can at least see the trend
So what do you guys think.. when will MJ finally be decriminalized/legalized/accepted as a part of our world's culture? It already appears to be happening.. so at that rate is there an end to all this madness in sight?
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 Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: extreme]
#15800381 - 02/12/12 09:06 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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100 years
Defiantly not in time for you to make a career of it, sorry
IMO of course
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: Gratos]
#15800422 - 02/12/12 09:12 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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i would say in the next ten years, but perhaps i'm just being optimistic
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100 years
Defiantly not in time for you to make a career of it, sorry
IMO of course
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i would say in the next ten years, but perhaps i'm just being optimistic
Obviously hard to say exactly haha, but already seeing large differences in opinion
I sure hope it's closer to 10 than 100 though!
The way things have progressed already, I personally think as long as we continue to progress, and don't let corporate/federal greed get in the way of the TRUTH, I don't see how it could be more than 20-30 years. I mean it was only MADE illegal in the 30s right? It was all reefer madness and you'll turn into a psycho killer on MariHuana, that devil weed back then, and in 50 years it went from that to Medical Marijuana Dispensaries on your street corner in the more liberal places of the world. If the liberation continues, at the rate it's been going, I really can't see it taking longer than 30 years. But who knows. I just hope more people fight for the cause and stand up for what's right. Even organizations like NORML are doing great things. There's no way this prohibition can last forever
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: extreme]
#15800652 - 02/12/12 09:44 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Dude... You live in Antarctica???
That's fucking awesome.
Anyway...
I live in California and we are extremeely close to full legalization. Prop 19 was pretty close in November (46% yes, 53% no) This year we have something in the works called "regulate marijuana like wine 2012." Fingers crossed. The overall trend is definitely in our favor.
But to answer your question there is tons of money in the pot industry. There will be a lot of competetion. But yes within your lifetime you will pdefinitely be able to smoke weed freely and maybe even make some money in the bud-biz.
next ten years> quite possibly
next 20 years> I would put money down, yes
next 50 years> Hell motherfuckin' yes
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: bananaman]
#15800678 - 02/12/12 09:49 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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next ten years> quite possibly
next 20 years> I would put money down, yes
next 50 years> Hell motherfuckin' yes
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: extreme]
#15801250 - 02/12/12 11:52 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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I hope by at least 2018 but who knows if that'll ever happen Im convinced the tobacco companies are paying off people to never let that happen since they'd most likely lose millions
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: extreme]
#15801273 - 02/13/12 12:01 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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next ten years> quite possibly
next 20 years> I would put money down, yes
next 50 years> Hell motherfuckin' yes
Yeah I am in line with this thinking. There has been a marijuana explosion across society lately. Yay for the future!
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: LSDylan]
#15801355 - 02/13/12 12:34 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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I hope by at least 2018 but who knows if that'll ever happen Im convinced the tobacco companies are paying off people to never let that happen since they'd most likely lose millions
I bet alcohol and tobacco companies are mad as hell due to weed getting so popular nowadays. Alcohol will likely always stay, but tobacco will lose some for sure.
Unless there's some sort of conspiracy for everything to not work......................... 
But if that's not true.. 2018 would be like.. no time at all really haha. SIX years!? I'll only be getting close to 30, and the medicinal part will be even more useful by then I'm sure!
I'd also have my whole life to enjoy pot and fuck it, my kids could not have to worry about smoking when they got old enough. Everything would just be safer.
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Yeah I am in line with this thinking. There has been a marijuana explosion across society lately. Yay for the future!
That's what I'm saying right! The general lax-ness in Europe (TNL, belgium, c.r.) and Canada as well as some of the states is definitely progressive. I'm not too close to Cali right now, but I'm aware of how different it is out there compared to other parts of the world. Also prop 19 as homie said ^ 46% yes! that's great! That almost seems like more than I'd expect, but props to cali for getting that close, and hopefully that couple % can be persuaded the next time around. With full legalization starting one place and the overall benefit and acceptance just admitted, I think it would just spread everywhere else.
I wonder how you can preprepare  for possible MJ legalization without actually going forth and trying to grow it illegally? Then again I could always learn some business skills and just get into that side of it when it comes around, who knows
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: extreme]
#15801558 - 02/13/12 02:02 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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If you really want to work in the cannabis industry, why not study at oaksterdam university and work in cali medical? You could also hit up holland, there are a bunch of people who work breeding new strains for the seed companies to sell. Or you could try a country like portugal or spain, where drug trafficking is what is criminalized, and growing a small number of plants in your home for your private consumption isn't punishable...
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: sanx]
#15801618 - 02/13/12 02:31 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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IMO who fucking knows. THink of the hippies in the 60's they were sure it would become legal there was so much pro-weed pro drugs movement and it never happened. half a decade later and we're still stuck where they were essentially. There are a lot of people and powerful groups that oppose it. I wouldn't count on it being legalized.
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: nonduality]
#15801753 - 02/13/12 04:29 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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A generation of universal, pragmatic education. No more 'Paradigm Paralysis' pl0x.
However long that is, who knows!
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: UnifiedField] 1
#15802111 - 02/13/12 08:14 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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sad thing is, i feel like if cannabis is legalized people will start brushing off legalization of other drugs. right now it's an issue of freedom. once all those potheads have their freedom to smoke weed, suddenly the freedom to use other drugs won't matter too much to them anymore as a majority of them don't anyways. or it could go the opposite direction, people see the positives of legalization and expand... i'm really hoping it's the latter
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sad thing is, i feel like if cannabis is legalized people will start brushing off legalization of other drugs. right now it's an issue of freedom. once all those potheads have their freedom to smoke weed, suddenly the freedom to use other drugs won't matter too much to them anymore as a majority of them don't anyways. or it could go the opposite direction, people see the positives of legalization and expand... i'm really hoping it's the latter
This is what I am most afraid of. Weed legalization would be great, and I am sure that it will happen, but we need ALL drugs legalized. If just weed were made legal that would not fix the problem.
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: nonduality]
#15806860 - 02/14/12 02:52 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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IMO who fucking knows. THink of the hippies in the 60's they were sure it would become legal there was so much pro-weed pro drugs movement and it never happened. half a decade later and we're still stuck where they were essentially. There are a lot of people and powerful groups that oppose it. I wouldn't count on it being legalized.
OR, those hippies in the 60s kept on pushing, creating even the idea of "medical marijuana", to get a foot in the door with legalization, and I never would have dreamed that one day i'd be able to walk down the street and buy quality herb in a store. We are the "young hippies" now, and must continue what they started. Living in a medical state, I can tell you, we're well on the way to full legalization.
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if you're 18+, smoke weed, and dont vote, i will slay you. It's really up to we, the people to make it happen and not just sit on the sidelines talking about it 
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: cube talk]
#15807853 - 02/14/12 10:35 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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I would say that it is getting very close, maybe not in the next 10 years, but I don't see how it could be any longer than 20. With all these new documentaries like The Union popping up exposing the benefits of it and lies made about it, there are more people picking up joints than putting them out. The anti-mj stuff just hasn't worked out despite the ads and propaganda, although I imagine that the last states to go legal would be in the southeast. Even NC has an MMJ bill being considered now, so I guess there is hope for just about anywhere.
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: nonduality]
#15807910 - 02/14/12 10:52 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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THink of the hippies in the 60's they were sure it would become legal there was so much pro-weed pro drugs movement and it never happened. half a decade later and we're still stuck where they were essentially.
Holy crap.. you mean it's 1965? I traveled back in time!
PS: It's more likely that pot would become decriminalized rather than legalized. IMO
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Re: The year Cannabis is legalized [Re: bollocks]
#15807976 - 02/14/12 11:12 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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At the state level? Hopefully this year.
At the federal level? There's too much money in the drug war. I think we are a long ways away.
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