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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1730 on: December 09, 2009, 05:36:54 PM »
The other night I was picturing a U.S. where pot was legal, and it amused me.

Marketing — Even if it's restricted, like cigarettes, there would be brilliant advertising campaigns. Think of the mascots, the cheeky campaigns, the packaging design.

The Branding — Companies will sell, at the minimum, three tiers of quality — Stoked, Majorly Stoked and Blind. That's the major brands, the Coors and Budweisers. Then there will be specialty brands, the Fat Tires, the Captain Sig's Northwestern Ales. Then there will be the independent growers that produce only one brand. And each brand of pot will have its loyalists. They won't be "pot-heads" or "wastes of human material," they'll be "cannibis snobs." I suppose they already think of themselves that way.

The Advocacy Culture — Graduate students who don't use themselves will decry the exploitation of third world growers by big corporations. Imagine pot boycotts. Not by conservative groups but by granola types.



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I wonder if companies like ADM have very quietly been doing internal research to figure out how to jump into corporate marijuana farming should legalization ever happen.  As their previous users die off, I'm sure companies lie RJR are praying for it.

And then there will be the local, sustainable, organic, "slow weed" specialists....

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1731 on: December 09, 2009, 05:44:41 PM »
Here it's OK (as in a blind eye) to grow a plant for your own use.  However, it's not legal to sell weed or to sell plants.  So, I guess you have to know someone...
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1732 on: December 09, 2009, 06:02:41 PM »
When you realize that there is one more assignment due by the end of the quarter that you had forgotten about.
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1733 on: December 09, 2009, 06:15:33 PM »
growing a small amount of marijuana for personal use is decriminalized in South Australia, but I thought it was illegal in all other Australian states.

decriminalizing or indeed legalizing certain drugs would be a good thing as it would totally separate it from the criminal market. You could go to a proper state run shop where the stuff is grown and manufactured by government controlled regulations, with proper wages and working conditions for everyone involved in the process. It could even provide jobs for those who use the stuff, especially for those who want to be involved in the quality assurance end of the service ;)

Time to fill prisons with real criminals instead of pott heads! It's not like you get locked away with a criminal record for being an alcoholic, which is much more debilitating.
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1734 on: December 09, 2009, 06:17:44 PM »
Growing a plant for personal use in WA is not decriminalized; it's ignored by the law enforcement here.
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1735 on: December 09, 2009, 06:19:14 PM »
When you realize that there is one more assignment due by the end of the quarter that you had forgotten about.
I always get a bunch of people coming to me asking for extensions on the day stuff is due, despite the fact I remind them weekly about assignments at least 6 weeks before they are due!

Have fun working all night on your assignment Corndog - If you weren't on the forums writing about it, you might have finished it already!!!! lol  ;D
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1736 on: December 09, 2009, 06:21:53 PM »
Growing a plant for personal use in WA is not decriminalized; it's ignored by the law enforcement here.
It is ignored unless it is being grown by an Aboriginal or some person they don't like.....
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1737 on: December 09, 2009, 06:29:00 PM »
Decriminalizing drugs would ruin the prison industry in this country and god knows we can't mess with the free market.

But I do agree with you Colleen.

That drives me nuts too.  Especially since the prisons and jails are so overcrowded we can't keep real criminals locked up.  I detest burglars, mostly because for so many of them it's literally a career.  And not to feed drug habits either.  And they almost never go to prison no matter how many times they are arrested or convicted, and they almost never get kept in the county jail beyond the 24 hour first appearance hearing, before they are released on an OR bond, even if they are currently out on bond for another arrest.  And they are probably 40% of the total crime we deal with, 50-60% if you count car break-ins too.

I've pulled criminal histories for people we have arrested that have literally dozens of arrests for theft and burglary dating back to the 1980s without any actual prison time served.  That's ridiculous.  Especially since one person can cause so much of a "crime wave".  There are lots of times that we have managed to catch someone and they stay out of circulation for a while (usually because they are wanted in other counties and have to make the grand tour before everyone gives them probation and lets 'em go) and the statistics show a really noticable drop in the neighborhood or zone where they were operating.

I don't think anyone should be in prison for drugs for personal use.  I do have a problem with the dealers even though I understand the whole economy/sociology of it simply because dealers in an area leads to so much violent crime, some in terms of robberies by users but more frequently really violent crimes of dealers vs. dealers, or someone trying to rob a particular dealer of the money/drugs in their house.

A federal investigation took out some of the bigger players in our area about 7-8 years ago and the crime in their area dropped so far down it was amazing.  It gradulally came back but the main drug now is weed instead of crack, so at least the users tend to be pretty docile.  The dealers will still shoot/kill each other over territory or money.  The only thing that is going to solve that is legalization.




I favor legalization of most drugs.  No shock there.   ;D   So much paranoia in this world about drugs. 

But...

What about crystal meth?  I've never tried it, but I hear so many terrible things about it.   
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1738 on: December 09, 2009, 06:49:20 PM »
When you realize that there is one more assignment due by the end of the quarter that you had forgotten about.
I always get a bunch of people coming to me asking for extensions on the day stuff is due, despite the fact I remind them weekly about assignments at least 6 weeks before they are due!

Have fun working all night on your assignment Corndog - If you weren't on the forums writing about it, you might have finished it already!!!! lol  ;D


Oh that one isn't due until Sunday. It was just disappointing because I though I was going to be done tomorrow.
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #1739 on: December 09, 2009, 08:27:39 PM »

But...

What about crystal meth?  I've never tried it, but I hear so many terrible things about it.   


It is pretty dangerous and seems to really mess people up.  Been fortunate to have seen relatively little of that around here so far.  It's also incredibly dangerous to cook up yourself, particularly if you are using at the same time...I would say keep manufacturing as a crime and decrim possession or at least make it a misdemeanor as a way to funnel people into treatment programs.

Also, being high on any of these drugs, just like alcohol, is no excuse for other criminal behavior.  If you wreck because you are geeked up, it's DUI.  If you beat your wife because you are high on meth, or have a cocaine psychosis and go crazy on cops, you are still going to jail, just not for the drug part.