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 Pirate_Patrick
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 Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers 
#4798459 - 10/13/05 12:41 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is good news. Here is the link.
"In the 2005 growing season, CAMP says it so far has destroyed more plants than ever - 1.1 million worth $4.5 billion on the street, up from 621,000 plants last year. But agents still lost ground to growers. No longer is marijuana cultivation the cottage industry that flourished in the 1960s and '70s after waves of counterculture migrants bought cheap land in the northern California mountains and grew pot for their own use and extra income."
"Look at the amount of economic value we're destroying," says Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. "This could be legally taxed and regulated and we could all be making money off it. We never saw this lawlessness until there were drug laws and CAMP." NORML estimates that Californians' pot consumption could yield at least $250 million a year in sales taxes."
Edited by Pirate_Patrick (10/13/05 12:42 PM)
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: Pirate_Patrick]
#4798516 - 10/13/05 12:51 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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The drug dealers could take their money and form a powerful lobby, but instead they let it stay illegal so they can make enormous profits.
Why can't they push for legality while putting a stranglehold on the new market?
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: daimyo]
#4798677 - 10/13/05 01:18 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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The illegal drug industry is huge, it employs a vast number of people in production, distribution and of course law enforcement.
Just about everyone apart from users has an interests in keeping it illegal.
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: psilomonkey]
#4799234 - 10/13/05 03:32 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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i dont' wanna see pot going corporate and be taxed...
we should just be allowed to have the family pot plant....or two or three....like 2 or 3 per person in the house.
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: Pirate_Patrick]
#4799372 - 10/13/05 04:02 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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It is obvious that we need more agents, taxes and weapons to eradicate this scourge.
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: MJF]
#4799760 - 10/13/05 05:16 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Just because it was commercially legalized and subsequently taxed wouldn't preclude you from growing your own for personal use tax free.
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: HagbardCeline]
#4800707 - 10/13/05 08:48 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well, it did with alcohol. Liquor is legal but you still can't have a personal still.
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: Swami]
#4811189 - 10/16/05 02:15 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Swami said:
It is obvious that we need more agents, taxes and weapons to eradicate this scourge.
with all the revenue from pot sales we could afford to put those extra people out
there searching for growers and destroying the crops 
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: TastyWaves]
#4811193 - 10/16/05 02:16 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
TastyWaves said:
Well, it did with alcohol. Liquor is legal but you still can't have a personal still.
with the right permits you can, ATF just wants their share
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: Prisoner#1]
#4827108 - 10/19/05 09:14 PM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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george yungs gonna be pissed.
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Re: Drug Agents can't keep up with pot growers [Re: KidgardFromSRQ]
#5428748 - 03/22/06 05:59 AM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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making it legal would make thigns too complicated. for one, insurance rates would go up. Seocndi t woudl be taxed, third if it were legal it would take decades for it to be socially acceptable to the goody goody ignorameuses (its too late for me to spell correclty).
Instead, we need to secure our rights to privacy. One would be fine if they could grow a plant in their home if they knew they wouldnt get caught. Imagine cops not being able to search your car, person, or house.
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