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Dragon,

Come on, man. It is funny for a sign. That's not being disrespectful to Major Bong. In the context of this thread it's funny.



_ OH MY GOD!!!! I just defended one of amvet's post. I must shower now. I feel unclean. _

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I got the joke, Bud..Like I said, I wasn't pontificating...*shrug* One man's wine, another's bong-water...

Your last sentence...Now THAT was funny...Don't care who ya are, tha's funny...

No problem, brother.

hey dragon, thanks for letting me know where the 'Bong' name even came from..had no idea.

and five: almost spilled the coffee on that one...

I say: legalize it, subsidize it, tax the crap out of it and make a ton of money for the govt. I think that the use would actually decrease (after a short spell) if it was made legal.

Just my $.02

It would be one hell of a revenue train...that's for sure.

The Carry Nation approach to controlling the problem doesn't seem to work....

What to do.....what to do...

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and as far as my arthritis being an excuse to smoke, well I don't need one. I think it should be legal, period, and would basically smoke whenever I wanted to. But even though my life isn't very active for a variety of reasons, most of the time I want to keep my wits about me, and it just so happens that when I do have arthritis, I really don't care and I feel better too, and yeah, I'll admit, I enjoy the high.

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got me confused on this one, either you have it or not.

OK, I don't quite follow with you here. Just because the government legalized pot, what would keep all of the people who are currently growing it from continuing to grow it? Growing weed is much easier than making beer or whiskey. How many people do you think would begin growing their own to keep from having to pay taxes on it?

I plead the 5th

Grae, then I guess the govt or big business would just have to get 'competitive'.

You can grow your own tobacco too but people don't do it..why? it is easier and more convienient to just go to the store and buy a pack.

I think the govt could make money on it and people would grow there own. Don't see that it would actually be that big of a conflict.

Good ol' Boys and Weed, or The South go Rise Again!! (or At Least Get High as Hell Tryin')

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread5944.shtml

Point here is that a cash crop is a cash crop.

Copperhead Road
Steve Earle

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
He only came to town about twice a year
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad
He headed up the holler with everything he had
It's before my time but I've been told
He never came back from Copperhead Road

Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge
Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side
Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumblin' sound
Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right
He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load
You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
And I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico
I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know
You better stay away from Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road - Copperhead Road - Copperhead Road


THAT SONG ROCKS! (but then again, I think it's just because I love the bagpipes in it..yeah, that's the ticket.. )

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Grae, then I guess the govt or big business would just have to get 'competitive'.

You can grow your own tobacco too but people don't do it..why? it is easier and more convienient to just go to the store and buy a pack.

I think the govt could make money on it and people would grow there own. Don't see that it would actually be that big of a conflict.

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There is a reason most people don't grow their own tobacco. You have to grow it for a full season, then harvest it, cure it, etc. Weed you just grow. You can grab a few leaves off any time you think you might need some, dry it in the oven and roll it up and smoke it. If you want some really killer weed...yeah, there are some things you can do naturally to make it more potent. You can starve the plant, so it uses the THC in the bulb of the plant to stay alive. The plant will use all of the THC in it's bulb to stay alive. When it gets to the point where it's wilting really badly, you pull it up roots and all, take a plastic bag and fill it with cherry juice and wrap arount the roots, then hang it upside down for a few days. The plant will suck up the cherry juice because it is starved for water and that will give it a cherry flavor. The plant will actually live for a few days after it has sucked up all of the cherry juice and then begin to wilt again. The Cherry juice won't make it any more potent, but starving it prior to hanging it with the cherry juice just prior to harvesting it after you've had it hanging for a few days will. Not that I know this from personal experience, but friends have told me a few things. Yeah, that's the ticket!

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cherry juice, huh? that's a new one by me.

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not that I would actually ever do anything about it of course.

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cherry juice, huh? that's a new one by me.

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not that I would actually ever do anything about it of course.

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One of the guys I work with used to be a serious pot-head. He has told me all sorts of stuff that he and his friends used to do with weed. He doesn't do it anymore, though, 'cause he got married, had kids and started going to church. Now he's a really spiritual person. Where he gave up lots of his vices, he picked up a step in his christianity.

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I say: legalize it, subsidize it, tax the crap out of it and make a ton of money for the govt. I think that the use would actually decrease (after a short spell) if it was made legal.

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Now if it was legalized would the military allow it??

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I say: legalize it, subsidize it, tax the crap out of it and make a ton of money for the govt. I think that the use would actually decrease (after a short spell) if it was made legal.

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Now if it was legalized would the military allow it??

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I don't know why they wouldn't allow it. Weed impares your mental and physical faculties for a much shorter period of time than alcohol. I personally no longer care for having my mental faculties impared for any period of time, so I really don't care whether they legalize it or not.

I think it will probably progress slowly to legalization for medicinal purposes to decriminalization to legalization..but I do think that the military will be the very last to cave on this issue, if indeed they do, which to tell the truth, I am kinda torn about..

maybe i should be the ginney pig and see if it helps out ole arthur

Billy you volunteered yerself..let us know when you can how it all turns out.

POT ummm, why not de-criminalise like in the UK, take the crime out of it, pay tax on it, and most importantly of all, party on.

The only real bug is that i dont smoke.

Yo Amvet, you is a Colonel, not sure weather to salute, stand to attention or hug you.