Legalize MaryJahWanna to Pay For Health Care

[rsmith6621]

True legalizing pot will bring the market price down but it wont stop the demand...So I say if hypothetically a gram or a one finger bag could get $50.00 then tax it at 30% so the total cost is $45.00........Also tax the farmers who provide it to the distributors...continue to criminalize it for those who wish to do business under the table....and take the cost we will no longer spend prosecuting these offenses and divert them in to the national health care piggy bank....


I am emailing this thought to my congressional reps right now....

[mdmc]

1. k/r

although I think that the leaf won't be as taxable as we might hope.
The gov. will give out crap, and the black market will have the kind..

[Perky]

2. Yeah like that is going to gain us votes in either House?

[CrownPrinceBandar]

3. What about folks who want to grow 10 plants for their own use.........

will that be criminal? And what about seed? Could a homegrower legally purchase seeds from anyone but the government?

[OneBlueSky]

4. whether or not pot is legalized, it makes no sense not to legalize hemp . . .

Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need
http://www.alternet.org/environment/133055/hemp_is_not_pot%3A_it%27s_the_economic_stimulus_and_green_jobs_solution_we_need

We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal?

(snip)

With 25,000 known applications from paper, clothing and food products -- which, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal this January, is the fastest growing new food category in North America -- to construction and automotive materials, hemp could be just the crop to jump-start America's green economy.

But growing hemp remains illegal in the U.S. The Drug Enforcement Administration has lumped the low-THC plant together with its psychoactive cousin, marijuana, making America the planet's only industrialized nation to ban hemp production. We can import it from Canada, which legalized it in 1997. But we can't grow it.

(snip)

"Hemp will create jobs in some of the hardest-hit sectors of the country -- rural agriculture, equipment manufacturing, transportable processing equipment and crews -- and the products could serve and develop the same community where the hemp is farmed: building ecological new homes, producing value-added and finished products, marketing and so forth," he writes in an e-mail from Amsterdam, where he is doing research. "Add to that all the secondary jobs -- restaurants, health care, food products, community-support networks, schools, etc., that will serve the workers. The Midwestern U.S. and the more remote parts of California and other states would see a surge of income, growth, jobs and consumer goods."

(snip)

In fact, Germany's DaimlerChrysler Corp. has equipped its Mercedes-Benz C-class vehicles with natural-fiber-reinforced materials, including hemp, for years. Even Henry Ford himself manufactured a car from hemp-based plastic in 1941, archival footage of which can be found on YouTube, and the car ran on clean-burning hemp-based ethanol fuel.

This leads to the most compelling argument for hemp: fuel. Hemp seeds are ideal for making ethanol, the cleanest-burning liquid bio-alternative to gasoline, and when grown as an energy crop, hemp actually offsets carbon emissions because it absorbs more carbon dioxide than any other plant.

- more . . .

http://www.alternet.org/environment/133055/hemp_is_not_pot%3A_it%27s_the_economic_stimulus_and_green_jobs_solution_we_need

[OneBlueSky]

5. here are just some of the products that can be made from hemp . . .

http://www.jackherer.com/hemp%20things.htm

[guitar man]

6. damn

for $50 a gram that shit better make me see gawd! :D

[CrownPrinceBandar]

7. LOL!.........

that's what I thought.

[guitar man]

8. that's $350 a quarter oz

:wow: :crazy: