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In reply to the discussion: Pot smokers have said forever "Make it legal, tax it, and we'll be glad to pay!" Well, [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)people who clearly have no idea what they are dealing with or what to do, apparently only pretending to listen to voters, it seems.
One might say I shouldn't be hard on them. YOU are working hard every day paying these people to do a job - and this is what you get? Are your standards really this low? Do YOU get away with such pathetic effort and expect your boss to keep giving you money?
The stores are projected to sell an 1/8 of an ounce for $70 to $90. To whom? You can get it on the street today for $25 to $40 - what would possess someone other than a working white guy to go pay that? On the other hand sales of light bulbs and dirt are "growing" fast. Now I see why the lines of buyers in CO looked like a bunch of aging hippies who were AT the concerts in the 60's. It's a novelty now, but over the long term no one else can afford the prices. Besides, EVERYONE else has their own sources.
Hey lawmakers. I know you don't see it now, but this is really going to boost the black market in the state and nearby areas, exponentially. Thank you for that. I wonder how many of your unemployed kids, looking for a job, will find their calling trimming the nice buds of the local grow meister? That will be an interesting raid...
The legislators see the sales of light bulbs and dirt, and since it would be impossible to regulate those, they have made home growing illegal, unless you hold a medical marijuana card (mmj). Hey legislators - FUCK YOU - Come and get us. I dare you. I double dog dare you, you little turds. You will BREAK YOUR STATE BUDGET trying - you know it and we know it. Because you will have to visit every house in the state, look in every closet and basement. And you will then need to do it again next month. It would cost you billions to enforce that while you can't even get enough money for schools, bridges are falling, more people are needing government assistance than have in a long time. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of people are growing this stuff in every nook and cranny. You may fool some people by taking a few people to jail (what does anyone want to bet that they are predominately black, or low income?) for having a couple or 10 plants, but while you are doing that anyone with an IQ over 70 will know that thousands upon thousands of people are turning their lights on for the next 12 hour cycle, and they will repeat it a half dozen times every year, and you will NEVER, EVER catch them, except by stumbling over them in your drunken stupor. Or maybe it is just to keep a small flow of non-violent prisoners coming in so someone can profit from them. You taking payoffs from someone?
Hint: Just make it legal to grow a couple of plants. People are going to anyway, and this way they are going to learn to disrespect you and the law.
Even with an mmj card, they have now lowered the number of plants one can grow to 6 from 15, ostensibly to limit competition with their state-approved stores. LOL. Enforce that, go ahead. Get warrants to break in on sick people and count their plants. You will look like the idiots you are. A few videos after that people will begin to realize that we aren't threatened by sick people, and you will start to look like monsters.
Looking forward to when you bring your little brochure by and ask for my vote, Assuming you don't have to wait to long for the coal trains and oil sludge trains bringing hazardous materials through and interrupting our traffic for jobs on the other side of the state.