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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:30 PM
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Long term solution to save Haiti? Legalise marijuana in the US!
It's a fast cash crop, it grows like, well, a weed -- and one must assume the Caribbean has the proper climate for it.
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:31 PM
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1. Not cool. n/t
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:31 PM
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2. Yeah but can you live off of it?
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:33 PM
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5. I think you can even make food from hemp or marijuana ... ???
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happy_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:44 PM
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7. seeds are one of the best protein sources available
Not to mention Hemp being used for fabric, paper etc.
Is it illegal in Haiti because they should already be growing it for themselves.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:53 PM
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13. What a tragedy capitalism has been for nature ---
and for all humanity --

Thank you for the information --

:)
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:32 PM
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3. If you think for one minute that RJ Reynolds is going to let Hatian farmers make the money
You haven't been paying attention.
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asdjrocky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:33 PM
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4. Haiti does not have a good climate for the kind of marijuana Americans like to consume.
It's that simple.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:39 PM
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6. i could adapt
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:51 PM
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11. Hey, we can adjust.
;) :smoke:
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:45 PM
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8. Haiti's soil isn't ready for such a crop
In part because of what Haiti used to export to the US, charcoal.

Haiti stripped its countryside of virtually all of its trees to feed the charcoal demand here in the US. All those charcoal briquettes that your parents burned up in the back yard when your were a kid, they came from Haiti.

As a result the Haitian soil has eroded into the ocean, taking precious nutrients with it, leaving behind a soil that is only fit for growing weeds and sliding down hillsides during hurricanes.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:49 PM
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9. You don't need soil to grow cannabis.
Edited on Wed Jan-13-10 06:49 PM by tridim
;)

But you do need good water.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:51 PM
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12. "...leaving behind a soil that is only fit for growing weeds"
which is exactly what hemp is.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:55 PM
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15. +1000% . . .
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:50 PM
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10. Yes! That would be VERY GOOD for business.
:smoke: :thumbsup:
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 06:54 PM
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14. Disgusting to advance your personal agenda on other people's suffering pal.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 07:00 PM
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16. my personal agenda in posting this was to point out
an obvious and feasible solution, pal. Thanks, anyway.
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 07:04 PM
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17. no it was to get high legally.. thanks anyway.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 07:37 PM
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18. lol you have no idea, Kreskin
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 07:49 PM
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19. How would growing enough weed to last years in 3 months in my basement help Haiti?
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Travis_0004 Donating Member (417 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 09:11 PM
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20. If it was legal they could not compete
We have better machines, and better technology.

Also, people always complain about jobs being outsourced, so why should this be any different.
If you are for jobs in America, you should be for weed being grown in America (I would be). Plus, I'm sure drug lords would control production in Haiti if it was profitable.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 09:13 PM
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21. You could send them your extra.
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