FED GOV...... bill to legalize

[NorCalHal]

You cats are funny. The world is full of sheep.........

Jusy remember what I wrote....all bad within 10 years. If you truly believe Big Pharma is not interested in The biggest Industry in the USA, then you are mistaken.
For me personally, I am ready for it. I have 3 seperate MMJ businesses that operate legally under Cali law. When they come in for the big buy out, I will be just fine. It is you, the folks that beleive that our goverment is "coming around" that I feel bad for. Alot of you grow and smoke as a hobby, it is my life. I know the Market well, and better then most. Laugh all you want, I sleep like a baby.

The only thing stopping the Big companies from being involved with MMJ currently is the simple fact that it is still Illegal under Federal law. Once they legalize it, they will come in, and come in fast. They have more money then God.

So, for me, I am STOKED that it is going to get legalized Federally. I am setting myself up to retire FAT. Don't get me wrong, I support it fully.

But it is still a BAD thing, you will see. But I knew it was coming.

Some folks can't see the forest thru the trees.

It will be legalized and fully brought into mainstream business. It will revitilize the whole USA. From retail outlets to the steel industry that will machine tools for Hemp plantations and huge indoor/outdoor grows. Everyone will have ties to the industry and it will create more jobs then you can imagine.

 

[Mutt]

There seem to be more and more Libertarian type Repubs around here in the last few years. I don't recall ever having met a Libertarian type Dem. But I'd like to.

They are around. The dem on this ticket with Ron Paul took a "libertarian" approach. Hand power to the states. It's not so much labels or parties...it's the fact that big govt. isn't the answer anymore. More and more states are getting sick of Federal intrusion. It's not within regards to just MJ it's a whole bunch of stuff I can't get into on this forum. but it's not a "party" like the media paints it anymore...it's a bunch of people starting to see just how little control we really have.
Democrats and Republicans are starting to say the same things.....it's a screwed up mess.

 

[SensiStarFan]

You cats are funny. The world is full of sheep.........

Jusy remember what I wrote....all bad within 10 years. If you truly believe Big Pharma is not interested in The biggest Industry in the USA, then you are mistaken.
For me personally, I am ready for it. I have 3 seperate MMJ businesses that operate legally under Cali law. When they come in for the big buy out, I will be just fine. It is you, the folks that beleive that our goverment is "coming around" that I feel bad for. Alot of you grow and smoke as a hobby, it is my life. I know the Market well, and better then most. Laugh all you want, I sleep like a baby.

The only thing stopping the Big companies from being involved with MMJ currently is the simple fact that it is still Illegal under Federal law. Once they legalize it, they will come in, and come in fast. They have more money then God.

So, for me, I am STOKED that it is going to get legalized Federally. I am setting myself up to retire FAT. Don't get me wrong, I support it fully.

All of this hinges on your belief that you will be bought out for millions of dollars. They may just laugh at you and open a bigger better funded dispensary right next door. Assuming you are going to get bought out is a pretty huge assumption. You know how many people owned burger stands that went out of business over the last 50 years because a McDonald's opened next door? McDonald's didn't buy out those little operations. What is going to happen though if it is legalized is that the price is going to drop like a stone. Nobody is going to pay $300 an ounce or more for a plant they can grow in their backyard like a tomato.


-SSF-

 

[ozzydiodude]

MJ is like my gun they can have it when they pry it from my cold dead hands

 

[Grower13]

All of this hinges on your belief that you will be bought out for millions of dollars. They may just laugh at you and open a bigger better funded dispensary right next door. Assuming you are going to get bought out is a pretty huge assumption. You know how many people owned burger stands that went out of business over the last 50 years because a McDonald's opened next door? McDonald's didn't buy out those little operations. What is going to happen though if it is lgalized is that the price is going to drop like a stone. Nobody is going to pay $300 an ounce or more for a plant they can grow in their backyard like a tomato.


-SSF-

you don't buy..... what you can take or get the govt to give you.

 

[NorCalHal]

Damn str8 Mutt.

After re-reading the thread, I think folks have a false sense of what this bill means. Most of you are applauding that the Feds are "backing off", and yes , this is a great thing.
What you don't realize is the big companies who pushed this thru....look it up. It is NOT about letting you "get high", it is about BIG business. I am ALL for it.

Do you guys really think that the Feds will back off and now everyone will just be able to grow and smoke herb at will??? haha. MJ is the biggest business in Cali, over Dairy,Wine and all other Ag products...it is FAR too much loot for big Corporations to ignore. As I wrote in another thread, they will come in and buy out all MJ related businesses and assume control.

If all you want to do is get high, then you have nothing to worry about. You can sit in your chair and watch the 5 'clock news and beleive everything the Pretty New Anchor tells you, while you are stoned on herb provided by Proctor and Gamble. Good Times.

Or you can wake the $^%# up and get in the business while you can.

Don't be fooled, it is all about Big Business, allways has been, allways will be.

 

[Mutt]

MJ is like my gun they can have it when they pry it from my cold dead hands

spoken like a true country boy.

 

[NorCalHal]

All of this hinges on your belief that you will be bought out for millions of dollars. They may just laugh at you and open a bigger better funded dispensary right next door. Assuming you are going to get bought out is a pretty huge assumption. You know how many people owned burger stands that went out of business over the last 50 years because a McDonald's opened next door? McDonald's didn't buy out those little operations. What is going to happen though if it is legalized is that the price is going to drop like a stone. Nobody is going to pay $300 an ounce or more for a plant they can grow in their backyard like a tomato.


-SSF-

Much Respect SSF.
Simple Answer, The majority of folks do not want to grow herb bro. That is why Dispensaries flourish.

You are correct in my assumption that they will come in and buy out. I am basing my assumption on folks I work with in the Industry here. they are Professional people, not stoners bro. Doctors and Lawyers and such. ( Love the "mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys ref!")
We have seen this coming and based our business model on those facts.

Now, they are not going to buy out the guy that has a little MMJ biz, but they will sure look at the guy that has his finger in all aspects of the Biz.

I love my job.

 

[SensiStarFan]

As long as we are on the subject of the government and the economy, I thought I would lighten the mood.....

Recession Facts


The Recession hits everybody......
I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
Wives are having sex with their husbands because they can't afford batteries.
CEO's are now playing miniature golf.
Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
A stripper was killed when her audience showered her with rolls of pennies while she danced.
I saw a polygamist with only one wife.
If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America .
Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.
My cousin had an exorcism but couldn't afford to pay for it, and they re-possessed her!
A truckload of Americans were caught sneaking into Mexico.
A picture is now only worth 200 words.
When Bill and Hillary travel together, they now have to share a room.
The Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas is now managed by Somali pirates.
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh Great! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!
And, finally...
I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Pakistan and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.


:hubba:
-SSF-

 

[SensiStarFan]

If you didn't like that one, how about a "big pharma" joke?

All drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name.


Example, the trade name is Tylenol and its generic name is Acetaminophen... Aleve is also called Naproxen.


Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.



The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra.



After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin.

Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.



Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer..




It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one.




Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of 'cocktails', 'highballs' and just a good old-fashioned 'stiff drink'.
Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT & DO.


Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research.

This means that by 2020, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

 

[kaotik]

the big picture to me is many other countries could move forward if the USA changed its stance on marijuana, and unlce sammy finally quit meddling with other countries drug laws.

i care not for the business side. or big pharma swooping in.
obviously we all know they want to and are going to anyway, whenever it happens (look at the recent rescheduling they want to do).. so we should not advance marijuana laws because it's going to benefit the fat cats with their big plantations?

they can have their big plantations, doesn't mean we have to support them.

 

[dman1234]

the big picture to me is many other countries could move forward if the USA changed its stance on marijuana, and unlce sammy finally quit meddling with other countries drug laws.

:cool2:

You must be a Canadian.

I dont see it so much as Uncle sam meddling, as the current Canadian gov't caving to pressures, maybe the same thing

 

[SensiStarFan]

Little more info in this article I read...

..US lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill that would legalize marijuana nationwide but allow each state to regulate, tax and control the drug itself.

They acknowledged, however, that the bill has virtually no chance of becoming law.

"We believe the federal government shouldn't be involved with prosecuting adults smoking marijuana," said Democratic Congressman Barney Frank. "We don't have enough prosecutors or police officers to do so."

The bill is the first ever effort to legalize the production and consumption of marijuana nationwide.

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized the production and consumption of marijuana for medical purposes, while 14 states have decriminalized small amounts for consumption.

"I don't expect to pass it in this Congress," added Frank. "But I think we're making progress. This is an educational process."

Some 850,000 Americans were arrested in 2009 for marijuana-related offenses, and about 90 percent of those cases were for possession, according to figures from the FBI.

"The drug war has not worked, clearly," said Representative Jared Polis, a Democrat from Colorado.

The Obama administration's Office of National Drug Control Policy, which opposes legalization, contends that marijuana potency has tripled in the past 20 years and that the age of teen drug users is getting younger.

It also says that 30 percent of people who have used marijuana in the past year say they are dependent on the drug.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, whose country is the main supplier of marijuana and amphetamines to the United States, warned recently that legalizing cannabis would make it tougher for countries like Mexico to prosecute farmers for growing a product that was legal in the United States.

"I would say to President Calderon that he does what he thinks is right in Mexico and I'll do what I think is right in the United States," said Frank, who said the bill would not allow the importation of the drug.

But, he said, the legalization of cannabis in the United States, the biggest drug consuming country in the world, would "produce a shift in the market."

Three weeks ago a group of ex-presidents of Latin America as well as former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan denounced the failure of the global war on drugs and called for urgent changes, including the legalization of cannabis.
...

 

[Grower13]

"I would say to President Calderon that he does what he thinks is right in Mexico and I'll do what I think is right in the United States," said Frank, who said the bill would not allow the importation of the drug.
...

I guess it is all gonna be home grown

 

[Locked]

Lol.....who the helll will want Mexi schwagg when the US will be turning out Dank Fire everywhere?

 

[WeedHopper]

It probably wont make it into law,,but the fact that they are starting to look at this in the Senate is a good thing.

 

[ston-loc]

Lol.....who the helll will want Mexi schwagg when the US will be turning out Dank Fire everywhere?

:rofl: Seriously!! haha

 

[Mutt]

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, whose country is the main supplier of marijuana and amphetamines to the United States, warned recently that legalizing cannabis would make it tougher for countries like Mexico to prosecute farmers for growing a product that was legal in the United States.

Translation:
"I won't get my several million dollar bribes anymore"

 

[Locked]

Translation:
"I won't get my several million dollar bribes anymore"

If and when they finally legalize...and that is a big if...it will throw a monkey wrench into a lot of people and countries plans. They will just find something else illegal to peddle to people.

I don't see anything changing much for me....I will continue to grow it if it is illegal or legal. But it sure wld be nice to not hve to worry about serious jail time and a ruined life if I did get caught.

Jmo

 

[niteshft]

It's been said, "as Maine goes so does the nation", and I hope that it still holds true. Maine has signed a new law into effect that you no longer have to regester to grow your own but it will still be nessassary to have a script from your doctor. It brings the laws more in line with fed regulations of personal medical records. It also raised the possesion limit from 2 1/2 ozs to 10 ozs for a 2 1/2 month supply. That alone brings me relief as it's impossible to maintain a 2 1/2 oz limit. I excited to have to go out and buy some more storage jars. :clap: