Study: Marijuana Helps to Fight Cancer

[Ron in Regina]

If drugs ... ALL DRUGS ... were de-criminalized, there would be no incentive for syndication. Risk is inflation. Take away the risk and you take away the profits. With kids, half the attraction is in getting away with something. What are they getting away with if there's no risk? Controlled, there would be ways to generate tax revenue on base product. Crime rates would drop because the addict doesn't have to get up so much cash for the fix. Okay ... so there'll be people still use. There are alcoholics, aren't there? Hospitalization is less expensive than crime. Nothing is ever going to stop them - except a dried-up supply. No profit ... no supply.

If drugs ... ALL DRUGS ... were de-criminalized and the syndication of Government on
the Federal, Provincial or State, and Municipal became involved...do you really think the
price of these things at a street (or store?) level will decrease?

I think the price would skyrocket...and there's already a well established underground
distribution system in place to avoid taxation like tobacco in much of Ontario.

 

[ironsides]

There is no simple solution, the last thing a sane person wants to do is give the goverment control over anything more.

 

[lone wolf]

If drugs ... ALL DRUGS ... were de-criminalized and the syndication of Government on
the Federal, Provincial or State, and Municipal became involved...do you really think the
price of these things at a street (or store?) level will decrease?

I think the price would skyrocket...and there's already a well established underground
distribution system in place to avoid taxation like tobacco in much of Ontario.

Yes I do believe prices would go down. Mark-up is well over 1000% of the cost. That is the cost of risk. If it was de-criminalized, controlled and retailed through an outlet like the provincial liquor control boards, street corner sales would vanish in favour of cheaper, reliable product of uniform quality. It's the profits attained by risk that makes it attractive to organized crime.

Prohibition is an excellent example of failure...

 

[darkbeaver]

I was once a cannabis merchant, my greatest fear was legalization. Like wolf said the cost would bottom like a brick if it were legalized. Many drug enforcement officers would be out of work and every government in the west would save billions of dollars in unnessary cops and ****ty expensive phatmaseuticals.

 

[Cannuck]

I was once a cannabis merchant

A cannabis merchant? You were a simple drug dealer. Trying to sanitize it probably doesn't fool anybody.

 

[lone wolf]

A cannabis merchant? You were a simple drug dealer. Trying to sanitize it probably doesn't fool anybody.

...and what, pray tell, name do you choose to call yourself?

 

[darkbeaver]

A cannabis merchant? You were a simple drug dealer. Trying to sanitize it probably doesn't fool anybody.

Can't get that by a bright student of human nature like you Cannuck eh. You've got me dead man, yes I was a cannabis farmer.:lol:

 

[lone wolf]

Never said alcohol was good either. Why does anyone need a mind altering drug to exist in this world. I do understand a medical need, but a recreational need, No. Anyone can make a specific amount of alcohol for their own consumption, we legalize drugs like that and marijuana farms, crystal meth labs etc., would be popping up all over the place. Point is where do we draw the line. I say do not open the door with drugs, ban them other than for medical use.

I do not buy the reasoning that alcohol is legal, why not legalize marijuana. Why add something else that could be abused.

Did you miss the words Controlled? De-criminalized? As long as it's banned, there will be inflated demand.

 

[Risus]

'Researchers in Spain have found out that the main chemical in marijuana appears to be helpful in the destruction of brain cancer cells.

How about the destruction of ALL brain cells.....

 

[Cannuck]

...and what, pray tell, name do you choose to call yourself?

A non-drug dealer.

 

[lone wolf]

A non-drug dealer.

Is that a polite way of saying bootlegger?

 

[Ron in Regina]

Yes I do believe prices would go down. Mark-up is well over 1000% of the cost. That is the cost of risk. If it was de-criminalized, controlled and retailed through an outlet like the provincial liquor control boards, street corner sales would vanish in favour of cheaper, reliable product of uniform quality. It's the profits attained by risk that makes it attractive to organized crime.

Prohibition is an excellent example of failure...

OK....fair enough. I just related it to my own experience. I know I can go
to the LB and buy a 40oz bottle of booze and it's generally about a buck
per oz (Except for specialty stuff, and I'm in Saskatchewan). That booze
would be about 40% alcohol (Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, etc...)

I also know that I can go and buy (but only in lots of five) five 40oz
bottles of booze for $125.00 and that makes it about 2/3rds of a buck
per oz, and that would be about 190 proof so about 95% alcohol.

"Boat Gas" doesn't ride in my belly well anymore, but it's an option. :lol:

I assumed there would be a direct correlation between this and drugs
with Government involvement, and knowing how well the Government
is currently regulation the distribution of street drugs through its prohibition.

I don't know enough about the drug trade, so I made a parallel to something
I was familiar with. I wasn't pretending to know more than I do, but just
asking the question. :lol:

Government involvement in most things generally doesn't decrease costs or
increase efficiency.

 

[darkbeaver]

How about the destruction of ALL brain cells.....

Why would you worry about something like that? Jesus go back to sleep will you

 

[lone wolf]

Government involvement in most things generally doesn't decrease costs or
increase efficiency.

Agreed ... in MOST things. Weed itself costs very little to grow.

 

[Cannuck]

Is that a polite way of saying bootlegger?

I could be. If one was to use it that way and db bootlegged, he would have been a non-drug dealing drug dealer. That would only make sense to pot smokers.

 

[ironsides]

Did you miss the words Controlled? De-criminalized? As long as it's banned, there will be inflated demand.

There just might be a inflated demand, I am not opposed to jailing people who use or sell drugs. I am in favor of controlling marijuana usage, do not favor de-criminalization of marijuana.

 

[darkbeaver]

Is that a polite way of saying bootlegger?

I wonder what someones medicine closet looks like who dosen't deal in drugs.

 

[Cannuck]

Weed itself costs very little to grow.

Booze costs very little to make.

 

[lone wolf]

There just might be a inflated demand, I am not opposed to jailing people who use or sell drugs. I am in favor of controlling marijuana usage, do not favor de-criminalization of marijuana.

Is there some sort of prestige value in creating criminals?

SEPARATE THOUGHT: Can someone with a criminal record vote in the US?

 

[darkbeaver]

There just might be a inflated demand, I am not opposed to jailing people who use or sell drugs. I am in favor of controlling marijuana usage, do not favor de-criminalization of marijuana.

So what's you're problem I do control my drug use. Sorry, I meant god and I control my drug use. sorry big ethel