So, a lot of viewers sounded off about my first article regarding why pot should stay illegal. Frankly, these people deserve a bong bludgeoning for their steadfast belief that making pot legal will be a good thing. Let me be more precise:
Ultimately, making pot legal will be a good thing, for the people who will control the marijuana industry. Right now, that industry is pretty small and pretty friendly. I can walk a few blocks and pick up a 40 sack from one of my best friends. We’ll share a bowl or two, maybe watch some TV, and I’ll head out. The weed is always good, and it’s an enjoyable experience. Did you know, tobacco started as a drug similar in nature to marijuana? But when a huge company tries to profit off of something with such a high demand, quality is compromised for cheap cancerous chemicals.
Also, don’t be shocked when the weed you enjoyed today, mutates into the weed you need tomorrow. Addiction = profits.
We have a good system in California. Anyone who has a bad back or can’t sleep can get a medical card for about $50. It’s not a hassle. I could have a card by Monday – shit, a doctor will even evaluate me in my own home.
I understand that if the law passes, the marijuana industry won’t immediately follow in the footsteps of tobacco or alcohol. There will probably be nuances no one will anticipate. But, I wouldn’t be surprised if I find myself reminiscing with my children, when they’re out of high school of course, about how simple the marijuana industry was. “When I was a kid, it wasn’t about profit. I could smoke just one blunt and be high out of my mind – you have to smoke a whole pack!”
In the current industry, maybe a few people make a large profit, but for the most part, dealers sell enough to smoke for free, and that’s that. The sewage of uncontrolled Capitalism hasn’t adulterated the business.
Maybe I was irrational to say that most stoners have a hard time functioning in a regular society. But here in Isla Vista, party town USA, I know people have a harder time functioning in a regular society. However, this probably has more to do with maturity, and being on our own for the first time, rather than the actual drug. Also, Isla Vista is far off from being considered a “normal society”.
Legalizing marijuana won’t have the immediate noxious effects that I am describing, but it will pave the way for the breakdown of our happy industry. At least be aware of the process. Have the sense to admit that, well shit, corporations are fucked up, and will do whatever it takes to make a profit. The government will never protect us from corporations, and that’s why it’s important we keep the government AND corporations away from the industry that is controlled by the people!
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In all reality though, how happy of a business is it today!?! People are getting murdered in Mexico because of the current system. It’s important to realize that neither option is perfect or even close to it.
if its legal you can grow it yourself and not worry about any of that shit!
are you retarded ? Marijuana is a plant that can be grown very easily, and it’s not physically addictive. I would point out other facts, but you’re not worth the time, fucking idiot.
American capitalism is a beautiful thing. It provides us with the opportunity to pay a price that reflects that quality of the good we are purchasing (except for IV Market, where you pay extra for being a lazy fuck and not going to costco or albertsons). Sure, big time business will get its filthy hands on the marijuana industry, and consistent with the protocols of any American corporation, they will discover the cheapest and easiest way to produce a crude, second tier cannabis product.
There are always alternatives. Consider my daily trip to the liquor store. It’s always the same dilemma- Quality vs Quantity- How do I allocate my pitiful student-employee wages without sacrificing my good taste (which is apparently unavoidable as I end up drinking busch-light, smoking shake, and eating ramen at the end of every month ). The point is, there will still be quality bud from numerous sources.
The seasoned cannabis growers in this state (God bless them all) are among the best in the world. You call open season, and they’ll cultivate to the point where all hues of green (and some purple) will be readily available at your local farmer’s market (the world I can only hope to live in one day). New growers will pop up left and right. I’d grow. My friends would grow. Individuals from all walks of life would grow (Holy sweet dankness does that sound swell!)
Weed would be ubiquitous. It already is to some extent in this state. You argue that corporations will kill the charm (for a lack of a better word)of the current state of the pot industry. I argue that you need not worry about big business, and leave it to the tasteless (or poor) masses to purchase that crap. I guarantee you would derive more sentimentality out of going to your dealers house and paying half the price (if that much) you do now for weed he grew himself. Legalize that shit!
And for the record, I don’t smoke nor do I associate with anyone who smokes Mexican weed.
Wow. I don’t know what vision you have for “regular society”, but it’s definitely one that’s not shared by me. Your article is hilarious, and that’s not because it was cleverly written or well-concieved. I really don’t know where to start, but if you think leaving everything up to mexican drug cartels and every other form of gun toting redneck and societal outcast, along with all the good-natured “normal” people currently growing cannabis out there, is the way things should always be run than you are incredibly misguided. I’m as wary of unbridled corporate greed as anyone, but to think that cannabis will suddenly transform its pharmacological profile upon legalization and become tobacco “the next generation” or some opium-like scourge on society, just goes to show how naive and uninformed/misinformed you must be. You claim in the article to enjoy smoking herb yourself, but I must surmise that you are fairly unexperienced with the scene in general. Smoking tobacco is far worse for you than the same amount of cannabis, despite what many highly biased studies say, which are always government or industry funded by the way. Alcohol is also far more harmful than cannabis in every conceivable way, both physically and mentally. And so, to conclude, if we can really remember how organized crime sky-rocketed, along with general consumption and the use of tainted/low-quality products during the prohibition of alcohol in the US, than there is no debate to be had about the benefits/drawbacks of cannabis decriminalization or legalization. Just think of Al Capone and all the thousands of innocent revelers who were poisoned by bootleg boos.
P.S. It sounds like the propagandists from the super powerful pharmaceutical and alcohol industries really got through to you. Hopefully you might do some more thinking on the matter and stop wasting everyone’s time.