Report: Cannabis America's Biggest Cash Crop (merged)

Mehm, is part of what you're saying that marijuana is an important crop, agriculture-wise? Because while I agree with you that agriculture is a much, much bigger business than prisons, if pot were legalized, they could probably grow enough for the entire country on a small handful of large farms. It would no longer be the biggest cash crop, because most of its value comes from its illegality. So agriculture doesn't have as much to gain as $35 billion.

I admit use would go up a lot, but even tobacco which is widely used is only a force in those few states which grow it, and a pot user smokes way less pot than a tobacco user smokes, by volume. Think of how much food each person eats per day, compared to how much pot each pot smoker smokes per day. Pot is, at most for a typical user, a gram a day, and most often much less.

I do think it will become legal, as you said. The non-pot-smoking citizens are slowly realizing that it's not the demon it's been made out to be, and, eventually, no amount of misinformation on the part of the current moneymakers will be enough to keep them blindfolded.
 
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Cannabis sativa:
FOOD- omega 3 protein fatty acids
FIBER- paper clothes shelter composites plastics
FUEL- petro-chemicals
PHUN- Beautiful females!

Switchgrass, algae, poplar, soybean, corn, wheat, and cannabis
These plans will turn humans from a brown to a green civilization

Here's the key point...hemp FuEL the transport
cannabis = cannabas = canvas
 
Little known fact - while 'marihuana' was made illegal in 1937, during WW2 the US government encouraged farmers to grow hemp, you can even still find and watch a propaganda film from 1942 called 'Hemp For Victory'.


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Trogdor said:
Little known fact - while 'marihuana' was made illegal in 1937, during WW2 the US government encouraged farmers to grow hemp, you can even still find and watch a propaganda film from 1942 called 'Hemp For Victory'.
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Haha, that's cool I never knew that...ima see if youtube has it.
 
Johnny1 said:
Mehm, is part of what you're saying that marijuana is an important crop, agriculture-wise? Because while I agree with you that agriculture is a much, much bigger business than prisons, if pot were legalized, they could probably grow enough for the entire country on a small handful of large farms. It would no longer be the biggest cash crop, because most of its value comes from its illegality. So agriculture doesn't have as much to gain as $35 billion.

I admit use would go up a lot, but even tobacco which is widely used is only a force in those few states which grow it, and a pot user smokes way less pot than a tobacco user smokes, by volume. Think of how much food each person eats per day, compared to how much pot each pot smoker smokes per day. Pot is, at most for a typical user, a gram a day, and most often much less.

I do think it will become legal, as you said. The non-pot-smoking citizens are slowly realizing that it's not the demon it's been made out to be, and, eventually, no amount of misinformation on the part of the current moneymakers will be enough to keep them blindfolded.
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If cannabis were legalized, you are right in saying that all of the USA's bud could be grown in a fairly small sector. However, hemp on the other hand would surely be grown en mass...probably on the same level as corn and soy. While I'm sure you've heard (some of) this before, the cannabis plant has MANY uses beyond getting stoned. Food, biomass for building and fuel, and carbon/nitrogen fixation into the soil are a few of its uses.

Basically, cannabis is one of the most productive and best plants on the planet. This FACT will eventually lead to it's legaliztion.
peace
 
StagnantReaction said:
If weed could be legally sold in the US, it would be made in China
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You're absolutely right - most of the industrial hemp we use in this country gets imported from China - we produce very little of our own, although some states have introduced limited industrial hemp farming programs.

And for you Astavats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkroOQT-84Q


edit: whoops, the first link wasn't the full video...
 
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Ok, maybe we spend more money on it now than any other crop, but we certainly couldn't make that much money legalizing it. The money that the crop costs is due to the plant being illegal. Those numbers wouldn't mean jack if the gov't tried to legalize it and sell it.
 
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^^ You're damn right about that. It would be cheap and taxed, probably the equivalent to a pack of cigarettes for some schwag joints. If any layman could produce and sell it, however, you would get high quality for cheaper than street prices, which would be a dream for every stoner in America.

Of course, the tobacco and alcohol industries would not like legalization; it would be a threat to them. The tobacco industry puts 80% of their campaign contributions into republicans, which totals almost 10 million at election times.
 
tobacco/alcohol should pull their head out of the sand and realize that they will be the one's growing the stuff (on a massive scale anyways). just another way to make money is how i wish they would look at it...for the time being anyways.
 
nah. fuck the tobacco companies. they make enough money as it is, although they might try. I seriously think that once legalized, a few marijuana-millionaires or billionaires will pop into common culture out of nowhere, perhaps someone who already has enough growing :) ... someone's gotta be entrepreneual (sp?) enough. and believe that someone will be. as a matter a fact... lots of people will probably try and lose out to whoever builds the marijuana empire the best. that's capitalism for you, but i think its great. I would love to go to the Circle K and ask for a pack of cannabis wides, unfiltered please.
 
Trogdor said:
dear god, please don't let the tobacco industry grow the cannabis, they'll probably put all kinds of additives in it just like they do cigarettes - then they'll finally 'prove' that pot is a dangerous drug...
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life sometimes brings strange allies into one's fold
 
no offense

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im not a huge conspiracy theory guy, but the govt makes more money off the prohibition because the products marijuana could replace boost the economy as well as the lobbyists that line the pockets of the fat cats who run this country. and then when you add in the possibility that the CIA is the major importer of drugs in the nation....you have much more than $36 billion in profit.
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california has such a high production of all drugs as well as many other states you would be right in your "conspiracy theorie" in the years when drug use boomed but nowadays what you said has been a well known fact since years past when classified documents leaked from the government such as project artichoke, more formerly known as MK ULTRA. now all we need is to legalize drugs as in the words of vermont stae attorney robert sand

"Windsor County, Vermont, States Attorney Robert Sand has spoken out against the drug war. In a Thursday interview with the Rutland Herald, Sand said he favors decriminalizing all drugs and a public health approach to drug use.

"It's hard for me to see the vast resources expended on drug cases," Sand said. The 15-year prosecutor added that he wished more resources would go into prosecuting the physical and sexual abuse of children. "Don't get me wrong. Drugs are bad for you, they impair your judgment, they affect your memory, they reduce your inhibitions in a dangerous way. They're not good for you."

But the state of Vermont needs to rethink whether it is the role of government to forcibly stop people from using intoxicating substances, Sand said. The idea should not be considered radical, he protested. "I actually reject the premise that it's radical. I'm not condoning people breaking the law. My duty is to enforce the law but it's not my role to just passively accept a situation that exacerbates public danger. Prohibition doesn't work; we should have learned that with alcohol," he said.

It is drug prohibition, not drugs themselves, that causes the most serious crime, Sand argued. "Drug transactions cause the most serious crimes," he said, noting that the disputes deal with money owed, drugs stolen and turf wars between dealers. "That's the violence of drugs," he said, not drug-induced crime. "We don't see crazed crack heads or someone on crystal," he said.

Sand told the Herald he had taken his message to major police departments, and after an initially rocky response, could get police to see his point of view. He asks them to think "about the worst drug house in their community, the worst drug dealer, the worst addict" and then asks them to envision the house painted and repaired and people obtaining drugs legally. That's when they come around he said. "It means less violence. It means less addicts."

Sand has only recently begun speaking out, he told the Herald. It sounds like he is ready to be heard.

as cited by drc.net great website
 
HEMP = Oil's obsolescence

That is why it will NEVER be legalized
by the psionist PTBs.
 
it is not easier to grow pot than brew your own beer. my friends and i brew beer all the time, and it's easy as hell. our last wheat beer turned out excellent
 
aanallein said:
And we probably produce the most meth too. California ftw.
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no KC is the meth capital. im not proud of it though. meth disgust me. no offense to any of you i just cant stand the shit
 
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