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Cash crop or is it a money tree - Guest - 09-22-2008
CASH CROP OR PERSONAL USE
Interesting subject, I keep seeing marijuana users advocating the use of pot for personal consumption and want the police out of their way. I believe that if a person wants to grow pot and smoke it he/she should have that right on their own property.
Now here is where it gets a little sticky for me. I have already admitted that I don’t care if you are a smoker of your personally grown pot. You know ,[bong up Dude] if that’s what makes you happy. Now you want the police out of your pot somking activities, Ok I have even gone along with that, after all it’s your right to do what you want with your brain. I will most certainly advocate the medical use of marijuana if used as a controlled substance. Here is the part that I don’t like about pot, every one that I have meet that grows pot also sell it for profit. Yes they may only have ten or twelve full grown plants growing at a time, nothing to retire off but plenty extra money. Of corse we have the people that do nothing but grow pot so they don’t have to work for a living just burn in and turn it. I also know plenty of these people here in the Puna area and believe me they drive better and newer vehicles than I do and haven’t had a job in years.
If you legalize the pot you take the profit out of it and I’m all for that, maybe just maybe it will make lots of lazy people go back to work. Not being able to grow a few thousand bucks in your back yard like a money tree will sure change a lot of peoples mind about keeping the police out of it.
Legalize it for personal use but make it mandatory jail time for selling it to children under the age of twenty one.
Now watch me get blasted from all sides, by just adverting to the word marijuana all the cracks in the wall open up all on there own.
The Lack
RE: Cash crop or is it a money tree - missydog1 - 09-22-2008
I'm not blasting you, but I've never heard of self-cultivating marijuana. All gardening for crops is work, especially in a climate full of bugs, fungus, and other challenges.
People do something where they risk going to jail. Risk vs Reward. It's a high risk occupation and pays more.
If everyone had the right to grow their own, without the medical component, then there would be less demand. But there are always people who want someone else to be the farmer, whether it's oranges, apples, or pakalolo.
My point being, why is considered not lazy to be a papaya farmer, but you are a lazy do-nothing if you farm cannabis? Cannabis is practically a science these days. It's gotten so technical I would be daunted to try and produce it for sale, even if it were legal!
[8D]
RE: Cash crop or is it a money tree - Kapohocat - 09-22-2008
Cant sell beer you make at home either, and that is work.
RE: Cash crop or is it a money tree - oink - 09-22-2008
Wow, I have to agree with wacky Lackey 100% on this one. Well, on second thought I would change the mandatory jail to mandatory prison.
ps: Kathy, the sh**s a weed. You can baby it if you want but it's generally very easy to grow. How do I know? I was a child of the 60s and had a youth appropriate for that time period. Been there and done that!
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
RE: Cash crop or is it a money tree - Kahunascott - 09-22-2008
quote:Here’s why.
Originally posted by KathyH
I'm not blasting you, but I've never heard of self-cultivating marijuana. All gardening for crops is work, especially in a climate full of bugs, fungus, and other challenges.
People do something where they risk going to jail. Risk vs Reward. It's a high risk occupation and pays more.
If everyone had the right to grow their own, without the medical component, then there would be less demand. But there are always people who want someone else to be the farmer, whether it's oranges, apples, or pakalolo.
My point being, why is considered not lazy to be a papaya farmer, but you are a lazy do-nothing if you farm cannabis? Cannabis is practically a science these days. It's gotten so technical I would be daunted to try and produce it for sale, even if it were legal!
[8D]
To grow weed is illegal.
Therefore the profit is made on taking the risk to grow it not on the hard work to cultivate and harvest.
Papaya’s $6.00/lbs…Weed $4,000.00/lbs.
Ya’ pretty much plant the weed do very little work to raise the plant.
Then go cut it down, dry it in your garage, and sell it to the neighborhood children.
That's why[8]
"Many dreams come true and some have silver linings, I look for my dreams and a pocket full of gold" Led Zeppelin
RE: Cash crop or is it a money tree - roseroo14 - 09-22-2008
KathyH wrote:
"My point being, why is considered not lazy to be a papaya farmer, but you are a lazy do-nothing if you farm cannabis?"
KathyH please try and under that when a papaya farmer sells his product he sells it for 3 papayas for a buck and has to sell plenty to make the same five hundred dollars that a oz. of pot will bring. Even a pothead can do that math.
The Lack
RE: Cash crop or is it a money tree - missydog1 - 09-22-2008
LOL, clearly in this room I am outnumbered.
I was a child of the 60's too, and it was a weed then. It's not a weed now. Pick up a copy of High Times; it's a botanical feat of engineering if you want to produce something for those who pay the prices.
I don't do it, but neither am I ignorant of the fine points.
It's never going to happen that we all agree about the pot thing, so this is one where it doesn't bother me that we disagree. I would be more surprised if any of us were even close to considering changing our mindset about this.
I made my call on whether I bought into the politics of pot illegality, back in 1967, and haven't heard anything in the last 40 years that changed my opinion, and you guys are probably equally set in the opposite frame of mind. [:p]
RE: Cash crop or is it a money tree - DanielP - 09-22-2008
I used to grow and smoked a ton. Now rarely. I can grow legally for loved ones for med use if I choose, but it is way too much time, work and hassle. $350/oz. for fine bud is a bargain.
Besides, the folks who have their little plots are ecologically friendly. True green technology!
Alcohol is the true gateway drug.
Get over it, folks.
I'm with you, KathyH.
Dan
RE: Cash crop or is it a money tree - StillHope - 09-22-2008
I propose to include the above mentioned produce into gardeners co-operative exchange.
Just wondering,how many bunches of hydroponic lettuce it is worth?[
] RE: Cash crop or is it a money tree - JWFITZ - 09-22-2008
I'm with you Kathy!
It is, for sure, different strokes for different folks.
But you must realize, you're probably far more likely to have the feds show up at your door if you're running your pickup on E100 than if you're growing weed.