newer bigger strides in marijuana regulation

its probably because your dealers over there are all scuzzy.. i cant even wrap my head around the reason for adding glass to marijuana.. and other highly harmful shit that i have heard about with the "skunk" over there

 

Yeah same here, all the "street" or known dealers are all scum, pure bags of shit. The dealers who keep to themselves and have a very closed customer basis always have much better, cleaner, cheaper weed and pollen...hard to find but all the ones I know are very reliable...town and city dealers are shite for the most part though

 

UK is really pissing me off lately, and my one English friend can't wait to get the fuck out of there.
It seems that they don't like people that speak their mind much anymore. It is now illegal to criticize religion and a teenager was arrested for his protest sign that said "Scientology is a cult"

 

True Stoner Fact........The major tobacco companies have already put trademarks on most if not all of the popular names for weed. It does not cost that much to TM a name. They did this in antisapation of weed becoming legal in the future.

 

That's some fukt up shit.

 

Dude, that's awsome

 

There are some people, who grow their own tobacco so they don't have to have any additional items added by the big companies. However, I feel that when the time does come that weed will be legal they will treat home growers like they did the people who make their own moonshine. You would still have to pay taxes on anything you made, or grow, at home. At least you will be supposed to do so.

 

Cool. Trademarking probably means big business lobbying as well.

 

yeah, but that guy's illegaly growing and selling now, so it still wouldn't matter. And if it gets legalized, the government won't be able to regulate people growing in their homes, so he'd be fine

 

The United States led the charge to make it illegal in most of the other countries because they had the power to do so. IE we wont trade with you if you don't follow our rules. So, if the attitude in our country were to change then so would the rest of the world. I can guarantee that.

 

Marijuana legalization and taxation would fix our economy, in a hearbeat.

 

This is true, but keep this in mind. One of the only ways they can take let's say a large government agency like the DEA, who spend at least 80% of the time trying to curb the influx of weed in this country. Where will all of those people go if pot is legal, guess what they will be put to work inforcing the new laws. I'm just saying there is a huge amount of money spent in this country out there to find and deal with people who are buying, selling and producing weed. So, all of those people will need something else to do.

Can you imagine how many people would be put out of work if weed was legal. I would estimate that would be more than 200,000. (pulled that number out of my ass) but you see my point. Let's just say there are a bunch of people who don't want to see this happen just because they would be out of a job. Hence why weed is not legal now.

 

All of those people could be deported to Columbia, or start working for the weed manufactures.

Their choice

 

Thats here in Ireland where that legislation was just introduced, any public blasphemy with no redeamable aspects can carry up to a €25,000 fine the law is too vague for anyone to actually get prosecuted with but its the effects of that being passed thats having impacts on other countries. Even Pakistan has introduced the exact same legislation using the exact same wording and praising Ireland for it. Iran is now saying "look at the West, they now understand religious significance" Well obviously not that blatantly but theyre using Ireland as an example. It doesnt really mean anything here and I doubt it will.

Dave, You could be right as well, if its legalised across all America then I can definitely see England following suit, England has much closer trading ties with America than we do but if England decriminalise then I can see us going the same way but with the current state of drug laws here I really cant see that happening until long after progress is made elsewhere.