Absolute, undistilled genius.

[DeSwiss]

45. This isn't like booze was.

Although many still don't realize that with the repeal of the 18th Amendment it allowed people to legally make up to 200 gallons of beer and 200 of wine for personal consumption per year. And even distilled spirits if you're willing to pay the IRS a tax. If not, you're a Mooshiner. So for a family of five, that's 1000 gallons of beer and 1000 gallons of wine, which is a pretty good start on things.

But when they made cannabis illegal in 1937, they did so with the AMA (the ones pushing for it) fully knowing that cannabis would cure disease like it had been doing for centuries and why they included in the US Pharmacopeia. They did so primarily to help alleviate the anemia they were suffering in their bank accounts at cannabis' hands.

But one doesn't need a recipe to make cannabis. To cook it. Distill it. Bottle it. Or any of that stuff. It just grows all by itself. Dirt and water and sun. That's it. So once the flood gates of cannabis legality are opened, I'd love to see them try to stop all the buds from growing. In Europe some clever cannabis campaigners were at one point tossing cannabis seeds wherever they went.

As it stands now we're spending million$ each year eradicating skunk-weed, which is the male plant (hemp) that grows in ditches all over America. Then later they pound their chests claiming how they're doing such a great job against drug abuse by stemming the tide against this ''gateway'' drug. Bearing in-mind that this crap barely has a trace of THC in it, but we've spending billions over the years to have the DEA blow tax money on skunk-weed cleanup.

But now there are some of these new laws being proposed that would allow an individual to grow their own plants as long as it's not a commercial operation. This way a person can grow their own supply of medicinal cannabis -- like I need to be able to do.

- So no, I don't think you're pessimistic. We've all been conditioned to see the worst possible side of all things regarding cannabis, because that's pretty much all we've known. It was always bullshit. But it's a new day dawning and it's time for the shlubs to go.......

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