Legalize it!

I don't care if you "buy it" or not, that's what would happen. Go find your friendly neighborhood economics professor and ask him. I know we have several guys around here with MBAs besides me, go ahead, do a SWOT analysis on the American pot industry assuming it were legal. There are too many barriers to entry to compete in a global market.

I'll be honest and say that I really don't know nearly enough about the global market, but why isn't tobacco imported if such was the case.

It seems that the same logic should be applied there. Marijuana can grow in North Carolina... where there are plenty of tobacco farms.

Regardless, I really couldn't care whether or not pot was legalized. I just think that it highlights some inconsistencies in our legal system, especially for medical marijuana. My father passed away from brain cancer a number of years ago and suffered incredibly throughout the chemotherapy, with almost crippling nausea.

Marijuana has been known to work wonders for many symptoms of terminally ill patients and offensive to me that something like this cannot be offered medically.

As with most things in this country...

And as it should be.

I'll be honest and say that I really don't know nearly enough about the global market, but why isn't tobacco imported if such was the case.

It seems that the same logic should be applied there. Marijuana can grow in North Carolina... where there are plenty of tobacco farms.

That's my whole point. We could grow pot in NC, but companies would have to either:

1) Buy more land for fields, raze them, fertilize them, irrigate them, plant and then harvest. This requires major capital investment (purchase of the land, contracting an agricultural engineering firm to raze, capital equipment to irrigate, engineers to design the irrigation, supplies to fertilize, etc).

2) Stop growing tobacco in existing tobacco fields and start growing weed there instead. This requires little capital investment but cuts into tobacco revenues. There would be a net zero incremental impact to overall revenues from the combined sale of weed & tobacco.

Tobacco isn't imported because we've had the infrastructure in place for tobacco harvesting since the 1800s. We make the stuff very cheaply, and then tax the living shitake mushrooms out of it.

2) Stop growing tobacco in existing tobacco fields and start growing weed there instead. This requires little capital investment but cuts into tobacco revenues. There would be a net zero incremental impact to overall revenues from the combined sale of weed & tobacco.
Sounds like a fine idea...

Outlaw cigarettes, and legalize cigga-weed!

Also, smoking is on the decline... lots of farms are probably going to free up. There is ALOT of land out there. I'm no expert, and don't claim to be... but I'd be interested in seeking out the economic possibilities out there.

If there aren't any... than there aren't any. It would probably explain why marijuana hasn't been legalized yet.

Sounds like a fine idea...

Outlaw cigarettes, and legalize cigga-weed!

Also, smoking is on the decline... lots of farms are probably going to free up. There is ALOT of land out there. I'm no expert, and don't claim to be... but I'd be interested in seeking out the economic possibilities out there.

If there aren't any... than there aren't any. It would probably explain why marijuana hasn't been legalized yet.

Exactly.

Same reason we're in Iraq and not in Darfur: money.

As with so many things Chris Rock got it right. The reason coke and pot are illegal is cos, "they don't have the good s**t in America."

On a little side note, it's very interesting to see how state laws differ in regard to weed:

State By State Laws - NORML (http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4516)

I hear ya. I never leave my house with it.

Also, as long as people are allowed to smoke their cigarettes in public, where I am exposed to it, there is no argument against pot from a public health perspective. EVERY single effing day, I must walk past the assholes smoking their cigarettes in front of the door to my office. I have no choice but to breathe the smoke -- or hold my breath.


Why are people who smoke cigs assholes? and whats the difference of second hand bong hit smoke or other wise, seriously? And no, smoking shouldnt be banned in public, outside. But if they ever do, they need to also ban the following: dudes who wear their pants halfway down their ass, and cussing in public in front of little children, and white rapper wannabe thugs(posers) fat ladys wearing spandex, men who want their tongue and or belly button pierced, al sharpton, pantys on hot chicks in short skirts on windy days, sanjia, al gore, rude people in customer service............. i could go on forever, but i think you get the point.

Those of you who use it would have to start paying taxes on it like cigarettes if it were legal. Stop complaining cause right now your getting your tax free fix.

for some reason i thought this tread's title was LEGALIZED IT and i almost bought a gram, but my hopes were shot down......:(