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Legalization, Good or Bad for Pot Smokers?
#15345439 - 11/09/11 03:56 PM (12 years, 2 months ago) |
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Today I had a heated debate with 2 of my peers. Me and 1 of my peers engage in smoking marijuana while my other peer does not. All three of us were in favor of marijuana being legalized, but my peer that does not smoke strongly felt that people who smoke marijuana have no reason to want it to be legal. We discredited a few of his points about the price getting higher by showing that eliminating the "black market" factor would certainly make the price lower, and even if there was a ridiculous excise tax one could simply purchase their own seeds and grow their own plant. His main point was that the "government" would corrupt the marijuana with tar and dangerous chemicals in the same way they corrupted tobacco with the production of cigarettes. I felt that the subculture that engages in marijuana smoking would only buy pure marijuana and therefore no one would sell such corrupted marijuana, and because weed is not addicting no one will settle for unhealthy, poisoned weed simply because its all that they could buy. But if weed usage were to reach a massive scale, in which major corporations monopolized the distribution of marijuana, do you think something like this could happen?
-------------------- “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.” ― Deepak Chopra
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Re: Legalization, Good or Bad for Pot Smokers? [Re: derealize]
#15345471 - 11/09/11 04:01 PM (12 years, 2 months ago) |
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The goverment wouldn't be selling the marijuana at all It'd be companies, and if it was legal people would just grow there own if it was shitty stuff put on the market. But shitty stuff wouldn't be put on the market because of competition. One company would sell dank pure bud so all the companies would have to match its quality to survive Think about the medical marijuana industry, all there shit is super dank because of competition
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derealize
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Re: Legalization, Good or Bad for Pot Smokers? [Re: i like cow poo]
#15345504 - 11/09/11 04:09 PM (12 years, 2 months ago) |
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But then why does it seem as though all natural tobacco companies do not sell as many packs as a more "processed cigarette"-selling company?
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Re: Legalization, Good or Bad for Pot Smokers? [Re: derealize]
#15345591 - 11/09/11 04:33 PM (12 years, 2 months ago) |
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They are two completly different industries People don't want tar marijuana
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