Also:
- You’re in another town and just want to pick some up while you are there.
- You’re at a show and have run out - easier to go across the street to the gas station or liquor store than find a home grower out at night.
Well, of course, but that’s life in our modern world. If the government regulates it, then the government can tax it, and they won’t pass up that opportunity.
I’ve always thought it was bullshit when they claim that they raise taxes on cigarettes to get people to quit. If everyone quit smoking tomorrow, it would be a disaster for our state revenue, and I’m sure a lot of others as well.
If mass produced it would have to be cheaper then what you can get it for on the street. People would still go to the street to get it because I have the feeling anything mass produced would have bad potency
I’ve been saying for years: I think it should be illegal to sell, illegal to drive while high; other than that, knock yourself out. If you want to grow your own weed and smoke it, it’s none of my fucking business. I don’t particularly care for it, but it’s probably less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, and smells better than both.
Presumably, it would receive much the same treatment that alcohol does now: You could buy it at any of a variety of stores, but only if you’re of age, and you could produce your own yourself for personal consumption, but you’d need red tape to sell it, and you couldn’t sell or provide it to anyone who wasn’t of age. The required age might be 18 (like for tobacco) or 21 (like alcohol), but that’s the basic idea.
I think tobacco kills 50,000 annually in the UK.
You’ve never been to Amsterdam, have you? I usually ask specifically for the less potent stuff.
I don’t think I see large corporate farms getting in on it if there’s the risk of competing themselves down to the price of oregano & thyme. It’s fairly easy to keep the price of tobacco up since very few people can grow, harvest, dry, cure, flavor, mill & roll their own pack/day habit. And of course tobacco is highly addictive. Easy to keep customers that way, and the government can happily tax the hell out of tobacco precisely because most users are addicts who can’t grow their own or get it from uncle Bob, who has a large garden.
I couldn’t agree more, except I appreciate the bouquet of some certain wines.
Marijuana makes me physically ill, so legalizing it wouldn’t affect me much. Just don’t get cute and blow it in my face. Other than that, smoke 'til you drool.
As to where you’d buy it…probably at liquor stores or the equivalent.
What I’d look forward to seeing would be the celebrity endorsements. Maybe Snoop Dogg could come out with his variations a la Newman’s Own.
What about internet sales? For over 5 years now, I have subscribed to buying legal cigarettes from a website. Been great so far. No problems.
Could I just subscribe to a federally-sanctioned website and get my regular deliveries?
Aren’t there large corporate farms that grow oregano and thyme?
They could market it as The Shizzle ™.
I submit that the “independent producers” would dry up. I’m not saying that I’m speaking from experience here – wink, wink – but when a dealer says to you, “I have this Alaskan Thunderfuck, or I have this stuff I grew in my attic,” there is only one choice to make, unless you only have the $20 on you at the time.
If the import of the stuff dried up (because the profit of it dried up (legalization)), then I think we’d all be suffering through, “This Bud’s for you,” type commercials at every superbowl, and Panama Red would be the next Joe Camel.
I say keep it illegal. It’s more fun that way.
It’s not nearly as simply as weed. Just growing tobacco and drying the leaf will yield you a very mediocre product. Cigarette tobacco goes through the mother liquor process that’d be a major pain in the balls to do yourself, and pipe tobaccos are aged, pressed, and/or fermented in a whole host of (tasty) ways. Harvesting a quality marijuana crop, by comparison, is pretty easy.
Until the corporate grows start treating marajuana the way tobacco is, and start aging, pressing it, and/or fermenting it in tasty ways.
I’m not sure exactly how it works but I’m assuming different kinds of marijuan produce different levels of THC and thus the high would vary from plant to plant.
So you’d have to have some regulation. The same way you can only buy 200mg Ibuprofen over the counter. The 800mg of Ibuprofen is still a prescription. Of course you can simply take four pills and get a prescription dose.
So the government would have to set standards of what you could sell and define the potency of the drug. There of course would be testing and lawsuits if you as an independent grower sold too potent of a type of marijuana and someone was injured. Thus the small grower who couldn’t accurately measure the potency would be at a disadvantage unless he took insurance out against such a risk.