TV ad: Marijuna legalizing and taxed?
I'm not paying taxes on it, and wonder where people think the money will come from if we taxed it?
Washington's First Marijuana Legalization Commercial - YouTube
Washington's First Marijuana Legalization Commercial - YouTube
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If you can make your own wine, you can grow your own weed, imo.
Ya and thats fine for now, because you need a business license to sell thing.
I need more than a couple for personal though. Plus I'll prob grow some for my friends who can't or don't want to grow weed. I don't think many people will 'buy' the weed legally around here anyways.
Any reason we should have a limit on what we can grow?
I just said two plants because I figured that was more than enough for one person.
What should the cucumber limit be?
Who is this guy?
Ya smoke doobies, pipe, vape, all of em all day.
How much do I smoke? Morning till night everyday, and I don't consider myself a chronic or a big smoker, just standard. I know heavy smokers.
are you saying that you are not suggesting a limit or are you saying ~2 plants etc isn't a limit?
I'm saying imo two plants should be adequate for one person and I'd be happy with us being allowed to grow that amount for personal use. I'm not saying that that should be the maximum limit allowed. I'm fine with it being higher or even no limit. However if there had to be a low limit, I think that two is fine.
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I understand its not your argument..maybe people have opinions on this?
and while I have no personal preference in how much anyone chooses to smoke (and fries brain cells) I do have a wish to not be run down in a car by some dope head.. legalize it, tax it, allow small amount for personal consumption similar to wine/beer...
So what would you like Darb, open season on smoking weed, taking drugs, drinking etc?
Legalizing it doesn't do this though. If we did it right with education (especially vs what we do now which is preach ignorance of it) then there should be the same or less than that.
But baked driving isn't really an issue, certainly not compared to liquor. I'll agree we don't need to allow diving high, but I have friends who live pretty much 100% stoned and their demeanor cause them to drive safer than my higher strung friends that don't toke. And they are certainly safer than many drivers out there.
These same friends run power tools, build thing, do extreme sports, operate equipment and work high. Here for some its more like having a smoke, that just gives you a little buzz. Its different when you have a higher tolerance kinda thing.
We do however need to deal with teenagers and new drivers/new smokers....but thats just a matter of education
but the latter stuff you said doesn't suggest we should tax it
thats a very loaded question but I can say that I believe we are not free until weed is legal.
But I think if we can come to a concensus on this forum we can infuse the new 'rule' in our society.
My worry though is when people suggest we can make money by taxing it. Thats not really making money. And if its legal why would we buy it? You wouldn't have to, you could just help yourself to mine.
tax on weed should directly go into education and health programs and nothing else
there should be designated "pot smoking" areas/parks that don't expose under age kids to weed
legalizing weed puts a major dent into drug trafficking
only thing that worries me, and ive said this before, weed really is a gate way drug.. if it wasn't for weed ,there's no way I would have ever dipped into the harder drugs like i did when i was younger
weed gave me the courage to even try that shit once I realized "being high is fun!"
When talking about our duty to pay taxes we have to be concerned our contributions aren't going to things like war, and wars on drugs
once its legal there are no dangers to exposing kids to it, the smoke isn't cancerous
This would be an interesting thing to see play out
no its not a gateway drug, I know many many people who smoke weed and don't do any other drugs, some don't even drink alcohol.
ya me too, I said wow I'm going to try anything! Luckily I ran into a few buddies who either got really messed up on meth, or almost did and I realized not everything is peaches.
What me and you really needed was someone to say 'hey kid weed isn't so bad but some of the other stuff can really mess you up.
At least Costanza understands the pitfalls... And I give him credit for it...
Reefer Madness (1937) - YouTube
also we should be worried about the king
Pot Smoking Not Linked to Lung Cancer
"Numerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50-70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which further increase the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke. Marijuana smokers show dysregulated growth of epithelial cells in their lung tissue, which could lead to cancer;6 however, a recent case-controlled study found no positive associations between marijuana use and lung, upper respiratory, or upper digestive tract cancers.7 Thus, the link between marijuana smoking and these cancers remains unsubstantiated at this time."
I would . . . no ones business what I choose to put in my body. Doesn't matter if it's weed or raw milk. My choice.
All in favour of strict consequences for legal aspects (a la DUI laws), but that is all.
Also . . . darb, I thought you hated our education system? Now you trust them to teach us about pot?
...somewhere a can of worms just popped open.
I do not think you should have a limit on how much u can have. It should be up to you if you want to have mold in your house from growing in your basement...
Regardless, if its available at the LCBO or corner stores, I can't see many people bothering to grow their own.
And also, Comp, please link to study showing marijuana linked to killing (or "frying") brain cells....